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OpenOffice 1.1 RC 1 Released

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the everybody-needs-a-spreadsheet-sometimes dept.

Heartz writes "OpenOffice has released OpenOffice 1.1 RC 1. Get details here. Neat features include built in PDF and Flash export, better MS Office document filters and more!"

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  1. Missing features still... by jkrise · · Score: 4, Informative

    Simplicity, like AbiWord.
    Less bloat, like Gnumeric (which yet scores over Excel)
    Performance - It's a lot slower than MS Office, specially on Linux.

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    1. Re:Missing features still... by jkrise · · Score: 4, Informative

      You've run MS-Office on Linux? It was faster?

      About 80% of my clients use Windows to run Office, mail and a bit of browsing. The speeds I measured were on the same system:

      MS Office (Word) on MS Windoze : 100
      Open Office on Windoze : 134
      Open Office on Linux : 176
      AbiWord on Linux : 27

      MS Office (Excel) on MS Windoze: 100
      Open Office on Windoze : 110
      Open Office on Linux : 140
      Gnumeric on Linux : 33

      Both AbiWord and Gnumeric support the Windoze MS Office formats quite well. In short, I can't think of any reason to run OpenOffice on Linux systems - except for hyper-sensitive users.

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    2. Re:Missing features still... by jkrise · · Score: 4, Informative

      These speeds are meaningless unless you give us some context. I assume you're giving relative speeds at performing some task since both the MS Office speeds are 100.

      All speeds are in seconds - MS Office speeds are pegged at 100 for scaling. For Word, I measured 'file- open speed' for 10-page files (there's little point in measuring 'editing' speeds). For Excel I opened 6 page spreadsheets with a bit of formulae. Again 'updating' and 'editing' speeds were not measured.
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  2. Showstopper #1820 still open. by deragon · · Score: 5, Informative

    But bug #1820 remains unresolved. In all fairness though, things are a bit moving for this showstopper. Hopefully there will be a solution for it in the near future.

    For the few unaware of this bug, in Calc, if your locale uses "," (comma) as a decimal separator, your numeric pad is worthless because the num pad "." (dot) is interepreted as something else than a decimal separator. You imagine how difficult it is to convert people using Excel when you must explain that they cannot use their num pad anymore. And before you suggest remapping keys, please read the bug report. Many non english locales are affected by this bug.

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  3. Changes since 1.1 beta 2 by ChrisRijk · · Score: 4, Informative

    New features in OpenOffice.org 1.1rc over OpenOffice.org beta2 release:

    # a "talkback" style crash reporter to collect stacktrace and error information
    # new command line parameter -start to automatically start a presentation after the document is loaded
    # ability to update existing OpenOffice.org 1.0.x single user installations
    # support for drawing objects in headers and footers
    # an example XSLT filter for Office 2003 XML format
    # support for MS Excel 95 and older form controls
    # UNO python bridge - python is now a first class language for creating UNO components for OpenOffice.org
    # built in spell checking dictionaries for English (UK) and Italian
    # built in hyphenation support for Danish, English (UK), German and Russian
    # integrated Bitstream Vera fonts
    # improved spelling suggestions using n-gram scoring

  4. Re:My experience by Captain+Large+Face · · Score: 4, Informative

    own proprietary format

    Surely you mean it's own open format?