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Page: AOO 3.5 Release Notes
(https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+3.5+Release+Notes)
Edited by Keith N. McKenna:
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h2. General Remarks
The Apache OpenOffice 3.5 is a *minor* release with bug fixes, enhancements,
improvement and new features with smaller or no UI changes.
h2. Enhancements and Improvments
h3. Conversion from Metafiles to draw objects ('Break'):
This useful conversion (e.g. also applicable to SVG objects) did not take Clip
Regions into account, thus leading to bad looking results. This is greatly
extended to use Clip Regions, so breaking inserted SVG or Metafile data to
drawing objects is much more useful now. This can be used to further edit
graphic data in Apache OpenOffice which was not editable before.
h3. Bitmap fill style supports transparency:
When filling graphic objects with fill style bitmap it is now possible to use
bitmaps with transparency. In former versions, transparency was not supported
and the fill bitmap was forced to a white background. This works in all
combinations, e.g. tiled bitmaps.
h3. Export to PNG supports transparency:
When exporting selected drawing objects to PNG Apache OpenOffice now does this
by default with transparent background. This allows now to further use graphics
created in other applications or for further processing.
h3. Better conversion to Bitmap:
When converting one or multiple selected drawing objects to bitmap,
transparency is now taken into account whenever possible. No longer is a extra
line added to the bottom and/or right side of the created graphic, thus making
the result more usable for further processing.
h3. Connectors support rotation:
Connectors do no longer disable rotation (and shear) tools when selected. While
this is minor useful for single connectors, it is very useful when selecting a
number of graphic objects and want to rotate them. This was requested in the
[OpenOffice Community Forum|http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum], a
user wanted to rotate a drawing made of many draw objects and many connectors
by 90 degrees. This is now possible without deselecting the connectors which is
no fun when you have a lot of them selected.
h3. Support relative Pie Chart Height:
For Pie charts imported from other formats, the Height attribute was not
supported. This is added now and makes Pie Charts look more as the original.
h3. Corrected Hatch fill style visualization:
When zooming out or in small visualizations (e.g. Page Previews) objects or
pages using a hatch fill style were bad visualized since too many hatch lines
had to be shown in too tight place. The Hatch Fill Style now uses a minimal
line distance to make it look good for visualizations in Edit Views. This was
already the case in older office versions, but was lost in the redesign of the
visualization.
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