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OpenOffice 3.1 Released
harmonise writes "OpenOffice 3.1 has been released. According to the release announcement, this update received 'The biggest single change (half a million lines of code!) and the most
visible is the major revamp of OpenOffice.org on-screen graphics.' See the OpenOffice 3.1 New Features page for a full list of changes."
Fedora 11, which is due to be released in about 3 weeks, will have OO3.1
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It uses themeable widgets so it only looks ugly if you whole desktop does.
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So far the product (update) does seem to work great. Better than the previous version. I use the Calc program a lot, and it seems faster on some basic functions like loading files with forumulas.
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The new anti-aliasing feature is on the graphics (charts, etc). The text in writer has been anti-aliased for years, ass.
Personally, I am waiting for go-oo.org 3.1, as that is what goes into Debian, Ubuntu, SuSE, Gentoo and others.
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"Does it offer the ability to have an auto-updating word count in the status bar yet?"
I don't know, but if you msg the developers I'm sure they would give it full attention. I see here that someone in 2006 wrote a Macro to perform such a task.
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I checked the full file list from the path to the Windows download and the Mac version isn't there yet - just the SDK. Checking the mirrors now.
http://openoffice.mirrors.tds.net/pub/openoffice/stable/3.1.0/
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File->Print menu.
There is. It's in the top-left corner.
Or, you know. Hit Ctrl-P, like every version of office ever.
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MS Office/Excel won't open two files of the same name, and insists on only one working window, forcing the user to "split" in order to compare spreadsheets. OO Calc does both.
OO Writer has a button for generating PDFs sans any Adobe integration.
The advantage to MS Office is that your client is more than likely authoring documents on an MS Office product, and absolute compatibility is not assured. But I don't fault the OO developers for that.
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FYI ODF 1.2 still hasn't even been finalised yet, so you can't really blame Microsoft for not yet implementing it until its finished.
Grab the torrent from the download site. It's coming into my box right now.
I have two Excel 2007 windows open now - and yes, they are separate windows.
I have a "save as" function that lets me pick from XLSX, XLS, PDF, ODS, and many many more sans any Adobe or Open Office integration.
What was your point again? oh, right - you didn't have one, although I do agree about two files with the same name. That is a bit annoying.
It's worth clarifying that although his blog post did help to point out a particular performance problem, he wasn't the one who coded the fix ...
I bought Office for my business and still switched to OpenOffice. OpenOffice works better for large documents, the integration with Calc is better, the document format is easy to manipulate with other programs, I could install it and freely share it when I needed to, and use it on any platform I choose.
Hands down the better application.
Application looks dont mean much when you are producing 3000 page document for a nice tidy sum of $$ and want to get the job done. Lyx may have been a good choice too, but for the collaborative parts I do, OpenOffice fits in a little better.
And if you need all the functionality of the latest Power Point, you just give bad presentations.