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OpenOffice.org Hits 1.1
sander writes "OpenOffice.org 1.1.0 has finally been released (after 5 release candidates -- should make it pretty sweet). The announcement is here, there is a really nice features page and a long list of mirrors carrying the goodies." OO.org releases for languages other than English should be here soon, too.
OpenOffice is available on ANY platform not just Linux
FYI, received this interesting info from OOO's staff :
In my enthusiasm for OpenOffice.org 1.1, I neglected to clarify a point (see http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ ReadMsg?msgId=848545&listName=announce ).
OpenOffice.org 1.1.0 is *identical* to the recently released OpenOffice.org RC5.
Therefore, if you have downloaded RC5, there is no need to download 1.1.
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with the complete illustrated feature list.s /1.1/
http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/feature
Loading times seem to have been improved, that's great news since that's what's keeping me using Abiword for common word processing jobs at uni. Let's see if there's already an ebuild for it...
Hack your mind out of its sandbox.
StarOffice 7 has a database component (AdabasD) that is not OSS, since its not created by Sun. SO7 also has more clip-art style stuff, a WordPerfect filter (also not OSS due to 3rd party code), and a different spelling checker (same thing again).
And it costs $79 (OpenOffice.org 1.1 is free), but you get Sun support with it.
Dan
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The zip file is identical to the RC5 release. If you got it already, then there's no need to download it again.
Nope, no native OSX port soon. See
http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/timeline.html
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Huh, on Windows you can install a postscript printer, print to a file and use ps2pdf :-b The same can be said about Linux.
Here's the Google Cache for the Openoffice Homepage
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Hey, for those who haven't read all the details of 1.1, I thought I'd point out that this really looks to me like it's far better than MS Office. Not only does it have 99% of the standard functionality that MS gives, at a much much smaller (read: free) pricetag, but it gives some great bonuses! OOo Draw seems like it's got most of Visio's functionality (a $400 app for the pro version, from MS), it also has built in PDF writing capabilities ($450 from Adobe)! Also, as far as I know, the last version (1.0.1) couldn't actually write .ppt (powerpoint) files, it could only view them. 1.1 is supposed to support writing them as well. Overall this looks ultra-damn-sweet!
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Ahh, good: there's a Linux print-to-PDF solution after all.
Of course, OO's button is certainly easier to use, but I think adding it either to the "save as..." dialog or the "print to..." list (or both) is more intuitive.
I know this was a joke (and a good one at that), but OpenOffice.org is also available for Windows and OS X, and others.
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I've been playing with the earlier release candidates, and so far it's been sweet. Much faster than 1.0, better conversion from Office formats, the whole .pdf exporter.
:)
In other wondrous news, KOffice plans on switching to the StarOffice file formats. That should save the filter writers a whole bunch of work on both sides.
I would say, "I'm going to install this on the machines of all my friends and relatives," but rampant piracy has led them to think of Microsoft Office as "free," and the power of brand naming has led them to think of any replacement as inferior. So I'll be installing it on the machines of all friends and neighbors who aren't computer savvy enough to notice the difference.
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Has the start-up time been reduced for this release?
It looks like their website is groaning under the load right now, so I can't give you a link, but there is a roadmap up somewhere which says startup time is one of the highest priority goals for version 2.0.
Startup is still quite slow even on speedy hardware, but I don't think it has been one of their highest priorities yet.
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you will get modded down as troll, but well spake. But, to be fair, it does not mess up your MS-word document unless you save it. I can't understand why many MS-Word documents with tables or a little complex formating can't be viewed properly in OO.
But, who asked you to use such complexity? Simplify.
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There is a Bit Torrent for this at Suprnova.org:
OpenOffice 1.1 Win32 English
I'm running on a hotrod 1466Mhz athlon / 768MB/ 10GB running gentoo. First load takes about 11 seconds (that's a long time) but subsequent loads are pretty zippy. I suggest you either prelink the app (which I don't do) or put a script in your init.d directory to recursively cat the /opt/OpenOffice directory to /dev/null, that would effectively 'precache' the application.
Also, try building from source if you can, you'll be able to set the optimization and several options that you don't see with a binary-only install.
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OOo_1.1.0_Win32Intel_install-zip.torrent
:)
They're out there, you just need to know where to look
Google has a list here.
Amazing what searching for "Openoffice mirrors" turns up.
Phil
PDF995 is a shareware (free version pops up a web page every time you use it) app that does exactly that. Plus, if you want to register it it's only $9.95 (hence the name). It's great. You can set up the same thing with all free software, but it's a pain. PDF995 takes the pain out of making PDFs for free on Windows. That said, I use OOo. It rocks.
Now 9 seconds on my 900MHz PII running Mandrake 8.1 (!). That's about half the time of the 1.0.1 release, so it's better, but still could use improvement.
Windows install torrent link :
/ OO o_1.1.0_Win32Intel_install-zip.torrent
http://www.emptylogic.com/suprnova/torrents/378
Linux torrent anyone?
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Does OpenOffice still use the non-free GPC library? If so, any plans to eventually make a free version of OpenOffice?
Those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about please search groups.google.com for these keywords: openoffice gpc license
You'll quickly realize that OpenOffice isn't free, that the developers know it has a non-free dependency, and that a lot of people are looking the other way and pretending there's no problem. I'd _really_ like to see this addressed so that my business can use OpenOffice legally. As it is, we might as well use warez versions of Microsoft Office, since it's no more illegal than a default build of OpenOffice (if you haven't paid your gpc license fee, that is)
Just click on Actions > Expunge to delete these marked messages. You can also hit Ctrl-E. After a while it becomes second nature.
In Windows, you can use PDFCreator to export a document from any application to PDF format, as long as that application supports printing. Unlike Adobe Acrobat, PDFCreator is free (GPL).
For more information, click here.
Yes, there are templates. Take a look at OOo's "sister site" OOoExtras:
http://ooextras.sourceforge.net/
Get a window manager that can group similar tasks on the taskbar. KDE and Gnome can both do this. I think WinXP can as well.
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Did you go into the "Deleted Items" folder and then click "Actions -> Empty Trash"? Works for me. Also, Ximian puts out Ximian Connector that lets you connect to an MS Exchange server and get all of it's features. This is what I use at work and it works great. I have full access to the calander and corporate contacts for meeting requests, etc. With the contacts, when you go to send an email, you click the To button and there you will see a find box. Type in the first few letters of the frist, last name and hit enter, it will return a list of all the corporate contacts. So if you want to find John Doe, you could type in "Jo Do" and hit enter to find all matches, or you could just type Do or Jo, etc. I have been talking with the admins here about using a REAL IMAP server and it is something they plan to do in a year or two. Exchange is proprietary crap, that is why only MS Software can work with it so well. Maybe talk to someone at your company about using a REAL IMAP server that is standards compliant, then you can use any mailer you like.
As far as comming up with a connector that works perfectly with MS Exchange, you will need to talk to MS and ask them to open up the protocol, good luck : )
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Actually, Linux supports this to. Just print to postscript, and run ps2pdf on it, or better yet, set up a printer to do that for you.
In fact, I have my Linux PDF Printer set up using SAMBA so the whole office can use it. This way noone has to buy Acrobat, and we can all print to PDF without even installing software (it's just a printer install - the drivers are already installed on Windows).
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As of 1.1rc3, first start time is about half of 1.0.3 which still kind slow. Second and later starts are very fast unlike 1.0.x.
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Doesn't seem like anyone else has.
OOo_1.1.0_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz.torrent
For non-geeks it'll be a while: Projected OS X native availability of OpenOffice.org 2.0 is currently Q1 2006.
Hyperlinking the URL would fix the problem and make access convenient. Why not try it?
There are two issues here.
The headless box. Run soffice -help to get a list of command line options. Or go here to see a list of command line options. On Windows running soffice -help brings up a window showing command line options.
OOo can be programmed from Basic, Java, and Python. I have done all three. On Windows, you can use any Windows Automatation language, such as Visual Basic, Microsoft Visual FoxPro, Delphi. I personally have used Visual FoxPro to script OOo. Someone on OOoForum has used Ruby on Windows to script OOo.
The API has a steep learning curve, but it is very powerful and capable. I have run a java program that can be run on one computer, and connect to an OOo running on another computer to create drawings of mazes. The two computers don't have to be running the same OS. Or you can run both the java program and OOo on the same computer.
If you download the SDK, there is a Java example called DocumentConverter.java. There is also a document converter Servlet in the SDK examples.
Here are a few places to start.
Deloper's Guide
Online API reference
OOo Developer
api.openoffice.org
udk.openoffice.org
Software Developer's Kit
Finally, go hang out on OOoForum.org in the Macro's and API section. I frequent that and answer a lot of questioons and post code fragments and examples there.
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The horrible startup speed is by far OpenOffice.org's greatest weakness. *In comparison* to either MSOffice or Corel WordPerfect Suite 7 or 8 on Windows it is abysmal.
Please note: I put "in comparison" in asterisks because the trolls think people should "get faster computers, fool". My friend was given OO.O recently and was immediately disgusted by the startup speed compared to MSOffice. "You get what you pay for", she said. NOT a good showing for open-source software. The price is irrelevant, because they promptly pirated MSOffice97 and were happy.
The headless box question has come up several times on OOoForum.org and I've answered it there. (Macros and API section.) In short, you can either try launching OOo with a -headless option. Or use an X server that draws to a bitmap in memory. VNC server is such an X server. It has the additional property that you can connect to it using a remote VNC viewer to see what the pixels currently look like. This type of X server requires no particular physical display hardware.
Those who would give up liberty in exchange for security and DRM should switch to Microsoft Palladium!
There's one called PDFCreator in Windows that emulates a printer and allows you to "print to PDF".
Fully licensed blockchain psychiatrist
Someone on OOoForum had posted this link to some nice templates. I don't know if this set has made it over to OOoExtras.org yet.
Those who would give up liberty in exchange for security and DRM should switch to Microsoft Palladium!
You mean the print dialog is missing the "Print to file" option?
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$ emerge oooqs
That'll fix your startup times, and the tray icon is pretty handy.
Great to see OO include this feature but there's been an open source project that does the same for sometime now. PDFCreator installs a special Printer (named PDFCreator) on your system. Anything you can print, you can convert into PDF format! I believe it's basically just adding some logic between the print spooler and the Win32 port of GhostScript but it's been a lifesaver at our school since all Profs now need to publish all syllabi and documents to the website in PDF format. The website is:
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator
Lookee here
Freepdf, if you're not doing prepress stuff, it is actually better than acrobat (I use 4.0) IMO.
Or better still, PDFCreator does all that for nothing with with no ads or nagging - completely GPL. Comes with a proper no-hassle installer, and is as easy to set up and use as PDF995 or similar.
Also http://www.acrosoftware.com/Download.htm
cutePDF printer driver for windoze
There is a redirector which will redirect a printer port to a ghost script process, which is essentially a free version of distiller.
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for the record, use the ISC mirror. I got a sustained spike of over 1M/s I downloaded the entire thing in just about 7 minutes. I'm on a T-1 by the way, so your results may vary.
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In Jaguar (10.2) the Print to PDF feature doesn't use any compression. OO's print to PDF feature supports image compression. In Panther (10.3) Apple is finally adding compression support to their Print to PDF feature so the files ought to be a whole lot smaller than the ones produced in jaguar. Granted they might not be as small as a dedicated PDF generation utility might output but they are much better than Jaguar's PDFs.
Regardless, the ability to print anything to a PDF is a very cool feature. Want to send an AppleWorks document to a Windows user? Print to PDF and you're pretty much set.
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I really like OpenOffice but gawd it's ugly! If your running it under *nix make sure you check out the Toolbar themes addon.
http://kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=71
You can replace the normal toolbar icons with ones to match your desktop environment, but pretty-much any of the included ones are FAR better than the OOo ones. Please, someone at OO merge this into the main tree!!!
But, of course, YMMV.
Now to go see how well the new features work.
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First of all, openoffice-bin is only version 1.0.2 while source openoffice is 1.0.3. I have tried both, and personall, I think running openoffice optimized for my AthlonXP is worth having to wait a couple hours for it to compile. Linux is multi-tasking, it is no problem minimizing a kterm that is compiling. Alternatively, you can just start the compile before you go to bed. But OO 1.1 is not in portage yet :(
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DRM? No thanks, I'll just get it somewhere else...
Replace the --ld-library-path= part with the directory where soffice.bin is installed. You need to do this as root unless you installed OOo as a normal user.
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Just put a new installation through it's paces. Nice work! It is faster. Actually (just started it again to check), it's DAMN faster! In fact it seems everything's sped up a bit -- e.g. menus.
Also tried the PDF exporter and brought the copy up in Mozilla (using the Adobe's reader for Linux). Yep. Looks like a real PDF to me. Haven't tried the MySQL interface, yet, but am excited to get away from the proprietary one.
FWIW, YMMV
Those who downloaded 1.1 RC5 for win32 can save themselves a 63.5 MB download and simply rename OOo_1.1rc5_Win32Intel_install.zip to OOo_1.1.0_Win32Intel_install.zip as they share the same checksum "4e38b597c1e646d07bb83153b73fe5d3".
I am not sure about the other platforms but I wouldn't be surprised if it were the same. Find out by checking out the OpenOffice 1.1 final MD5sums list.
Riding the first post to save bandwidth and unnecessary downloads.
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There is an option in the OpenOffice setup program to do just that.
Download this to make OpenOffice match your icon theme. Then use this guide to get your fonts looking good. In Gentoo you can get Microsoft's fonts by emerging corefonts
The horrible startup speed is by far OpenOffice.org's greatest weakness [snip] "You get what you pay for", she said. [snip] The price is irrelevant, because they promptly pirated MSOffice97 and were happy.
Wow, do you see the irony there? Someone complains that "You get what you pay for" and then pirates commercial software? I have no sympathy, nor respect, for people who pirate software. You mention that person's complaint like it's someone whose opinion should be taken seriously. Someone who is going to pirate software isn't mature enough to get the difference between free as in "Free Beer" and free is in "Free speech."
If you want start up speeds comparable to Office and to Corel's office suite, then you have to do the exact same thing both of those suites do to speed up their loading -- preload the application. Just because Microsoft has made it non-obvious that they preload the app doesn't mean it doesn't happen. Internet Explorer starts up quickly for the same reason. Once I configured Mozilla to preload under Win2k, it started up exactly as rapidly as IE6.
By way of comparison, someone who will pirate commercial software because what is freely available doesn't immediately meet their approval, well, is sort of like someone who doesn't like the food they are being given freely, so instead they go rob a store to get different food. Is that someone whose opinion you worry about? IMO, no.