Re: Release Notes: missing screenshots
On 03/05/2012 Armin wrote: Andrea Pescetti wrote: - Enhanced chart visualization ... To see the advantages, try to zoom into a 3d chart in OOO3.3 and AOO3.4. This also gives enhanced printing and exports, too. Thanks! This is a really impressive improvement that surely deserved a screenshot. See the striking comparison (400% zoom of 3D chart) at https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/download/attachments/27835830/aoo340-charts.png?version=1modificationDate=1336337745300 that I now included in the Release Notes: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+3.4+Release+Notes I didn't copy the image to http://www.openoffice.org/development/releases/3.4.0.html Anyone who is taking care of that page: please feel free to copy it. Does anyone have more information for a similar work (displaying the improvement with a screenshot) for the following two features, from my original request? - Formula: Automatic baseline for Math objects - Further development/bug fixes for DOCX import filter Regards, Andrea.
Re: Release Notes: missing screenshots
On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: On 03/05/2012 Armin wrote: Andrea Pescetti wrote: - Enhanced chart visualization ... To see the advantages, try to zoom into a 3d chart in OOO3.3 and AOO3.4. This also gives enhanced printing and exports, too. Thanks! This is a really impressive improvement that surely deserved a screenshot. See the striking comparison (400% zoom of 3D chart) at https://cwiki.apache.org/**confluence/download/** attachments/27835830/aoo340-**charts.png?version=1** modificationDate=1336337745300https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/download/attachments/27835830/aoo340-charts.png?version=1modificationDate=1336337745300 that I now included in the Release Notes: https://cwiki.apache.org/**confluence/display/OOOUSERS/** AOO+3.4+Release+Noteshttps://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+3.4+Release+Notes I didn't copy the image to http://www.openoffice.org/**development/releases/3.4.0.**htmlhttp://www.openoffice.org/development/releases/3.4.0.html Anyone who is taking care of that page: please feel free to copy it. OK, I JUST brought this over yesterday...I can make a new copy... Does anyone have more information for a similar work (displaying the improvement with a screenshot) for the following two features, from my original request? - Formula: Automatic baseline for Math objects - Further development/bug fixes for DOCX import filter Regards, Andrea. -- MzK Well, life has a funny way of sneaking up on you And life has a funny way of helping you out Helping you out. -- Ironic, Alanis Morissette
Re: Release Notes: missing screenshots
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Armin armin.le.gr...@me.com wrote: Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: Paolo is now coordinating volunteers that are translating the Release Notes into Italian, and while quickly reviewing the original document https://cwiki.apache.org/OOOUSERS/aoo-34-incubating-release-candidate.html I have the impression that some paragraphs would be much clearer with a screenshot or a sample document. For example, does anyone have more information on the following items? - Further development/bug fixes for DOCX import filter (a sample DOCX to test, or a screenshot showing the progress in import would be very useful) - Enhanced chart visualization (is this backend only or user-visible? if it's the latter, is there an ODF available to test?) It basically means that internally the graphic objects are not exchanged using a metafile in old metafile format with integer coordinates, but primitves are used directly with all their possibilities. This removes two transformation steps and avoids losing quality, thus being faster and qualitatively better, e.g. when having charts with more than 65535 data points (the maximum for polygons in metafiles). Also positions are better due to double precision when zooming in or needing high resolutions. The main advantage is that 3d charts do not need to be visualized as bitmaps (metafiles do not know 3d at all, thus they need to be transported as bitmap), but stay in 3d geometry for visualisation. To see the advantages, try to zoom into a 3d chart in OOO3.3 and AOO3.4. This also gives enhanced printing and exports, too. One of the features which were forgotten to be mentioned in some publications recently... - Formula: Automatic baseline for Math objects (while it is well explained, again having a sample ODF file or screenshots would help, since Math isn't the most popular module) Thanks, Andrea. -- ALG Hi...I am just looking for the release notes to finish up some work on the new DL index page. Could you please upload this doc to http://www.openoffice.org/development/releases/ and name it-- http://www.openoffice.org/development/releases/3.4.0.html in line with the others. Thanks. -- MzK Well, life has a funny way of sneaking up on you And life has a funny way of helping you out Helping you out. -- Ironic, Alanis Morissette
Release Notes: missing screenshots
Paolo is now coordinating volunteers that are translating the Release Notes into Italian, and while quickly reviewing the original document https://cwiki.apache.org/OOOUSERS/aoo-34-incubating-release-candidate.html I have the impression that some paragraphs would be much clearer with a screenshot or a sample document. For example, does anyone have more information on the following items? - Further development/bug fixes for DOCX import filter (a sample DOCX to test, or a screenshot showing the progress in import would be very useful) - Enhanced chart visualization (is this backend only or user-visible? if it's the latter, is there an ODF available to test?) - Formula: Automatic baseline for Math objects (while it is well explained, again having a sample ODF file or screenshots would help, since Math isn't the most popular module) Thanks, Andrea.
Re: Release Notes: missing screenshots
Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: Paolo is now coordinating volunteers that are translating the Release Notes into Italian, and while quickly reviewing the original document https://cwiki.apache.org/OOOUSERS/aoo-34-incubating-release-candidate.html I have the impression that some paragraphs would be much clearer with a screenshot or a sample document. For example, does anyone have more information on the following items? - Further development/bug fixes for DOCX import filter (a sample DOCX to test, or a screenshot showing the progress in import would be very useful) - Enhanced chart visualization (is this backend only or user-visible? if it's the latter, is there an ODF available to test?) It basically means that internally the graphic objects are not exchanged using a metafile in old metafile format with integer coordinates, but primitves are used directly with all their possibilities. This removes two transformation steps and avoids losing quality, thus being faster and qualitatively better, e.g. when having charts with more than 65535 data points (the maximum for polygons in metafiles). Also positions are better due to double precision when zooming in or needing high resolutions. The main advantage is that 3d charts do not need to be visualized as bitmaps (metafiles do not know 3d at all, thus they need to be transported as bitmap), but stay in 3d geometry for visualisation. To see the advantages, try to zoom into a 3d chart in OOO3.3 and AOO3.4. This also gives enhanced printing and exports, too. One of the features which were forgotten to be mentioned in some publications recently... - Formula: Automatic baseline for Math objects (while it is well explained, again having a sample ODF file or screenshots would help, since Math isn't the most popular module) Thanks, Andrea. -- ALG
