OpenOffice.org 2.4 Released 222
ahziem writes "The multiplatform, multilingual office suite OpenOffice.org has announced the release of version 2.4. New features include 5 PDF export enhancements, text to columns in Calc, rectangular selection in Writer, bug fixes, performance improvements, improvements supporting the growing library of extensions such as 3D OpenGL transitions in Impress, and much more. Downloads are available either direct or P2P. In September, OpenOffice.org 3.0 will add PDF import, Microsoft Office 2007 file format support, and ODF 1.2."
Mac Version (Score:5, Informative)
Re:PDF import? (Score:4, Informative)
Most useful extension (Score:5, Informative)
Re:PDF import? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:hopefully (Score:2, Informative)
Re:hopefully (Score:2, Informative)
Re:A leaf out of iWorks? (Score:2, Informative)
You see, OpenGL support was once present in StarOffice, but was removed due to problems with the newer OOo code.
Re:A leaf out of iWorks? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:PDF import? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:PDF import? (Score:5, Informative)
A note for clarification: Adobe Reader used to be named Acrobat Reader, so users mistaking one for the other have been understandably mislead by Adobe's own marketing in the past.
Re:Only one comment (Score:5, Informative)
Any word (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Mac Version (Score:4, Informative)
3.0 should be Aqua-only for Mac OS X. At least, that is the stated goal.
Re:Most useful extension (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Only one comment (Score:2, Informative)
(I abso-friggin'-lutely needed ctrl-d to fill down in Calc.)
Pet Peeve... (Score:4, Informative)
catastrophicdogmaticfishfingermousetrap
Which, as you can imagine, is quite distressing.
Re:hopefully (Score:5, Informative)
Uh, has KMail gotten around to composing HTML Mail or making it easy to insert links yet? Last I heard, the developers seemed to have a philosophical thing against HTML for some reason.
They don't have a philosophical objection to adding support for this though. I had a look on the mailing list a couple of weeks ago (this came up in a sub-thread somewhere). The current developers don't want to spend time implementing it, they're unpaid so they do what they want to do on Kontact/KMail. They're happy for someone else to add the functionality though, or for someone to pay someone else to add it.
KMail highlights links it finds in the text, it's good at this (I've never had to copy and paste a link from a plain text message).
Re:no news (Score:2, Informative)
Re:PDF import? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:bad timing (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Does it load any faster? (Score:4, Informative)
Re:I wish OOo would sign (PGP or authenticode) (Score:5, Informative)
Really, OOo should sign their executables.
Re:PDF import? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Most useful extension (Score:1, Informative)
Re:PDF import? (Score:2, Informative)
Waiting for outliner (Score:4, Informative)
The major thing OO is missing for me on the word processor front is good outliner support. There was a note from the developers posted on their forums a while back where they acknowledged that adding this is important, and that the navigator stuff is not a substitute. So, the good news is, OO will get good outliner support. The bad news is that it is going to be a lot of work, so it might not be soon. :-(
Re:PDF import? (Score:5, Informative)
Not perfect but often sufficient.
Re:PDF import? Don't wait, use inkscape today! (Score:3, Informative)
I think it's only possible to edit one page at a time, but with pdftk it shouldn't be much of a limitation.
Too slow (Score:4, Informative)
Re:I wish OOo would sign (PGP or authenticode) (Score:2, Informative)
But if the signatures/hashes were signed by a trusted PGP key, as the GP was suggesting, then they couldn't be modified without notice.