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OpenOffice.org 1.1 Features

2003-09-24

Enhanced file format support

  • PDF (Portable Document Format) export
  • Support for mailing a document as PDF.
  • DocBook/XML import/export.
  • XHTML export.
  • Support for Macromedia Flash (SWF) export.
  • Support for mobile device formats like AportisDoc (Palm), Pocket Word and Pocket Excel.
  • Example xslt based filter for Office 2003 XML documents

Accessibility

  • Support for full keyboard navigation and control
  • Support for tracking system colour scheme and theme settings
  • Support for accessibility in the help system and documents
  • Initial support for Assistive Technologies via Java accessibility APIs

Internationalization

CTL, vertical and bidirectional writing

  • Support for vertical writing within text documents, text frames and graphic objects
  • Support for vertical writing in spreadsheet cells (the direction is individualy selectable)
  • Support for input, display and editing of scripts using Complex Text Layout (CTL)
  • Support for RTL layout and text in the OpenOffice.org GUI
  • Support for BiDi-writing in OpenOffice.org documents
  • Support for using either Arabic or Hindi numerals
  • The RTL vs. LTR default text direction is automaticly selected based on locale

Other Internationalization enhancements

  • Support for various 8-bit Arabic and Hebrew text encodings / code pages.
  • Support for the KOI8_U encoding.
  • New CTL options tab in language options dialog.
  • Rescue mode support for BiDi/CTL with X11 fonts.
  • Sequence Input Checking (SIC) for languages like Thai and Hindi.
  • Initial glyph fallback support.

MS Office compatibility enhancements

All components

  • More accurate import and export of graphics objects
  • Import and export of CJK and CTL documents
  • Enhancements to overall stability and accuracy of conversion

Word

  • Forms conversion within Word documents
  • Improved import of text document layout

Excel

  • Support for Data Validation
  • Import/export of graphical details of charts

PowerPoint

  • Even better one-to-one layout of text frames
  • Improvements to import of WordArt objects

Writer

  • Enhanced footnote support.
  • Improved hyperlink support for TOCs.
  • Improved keyboard handling in toolboxes.
  • Plain text files are now imported using a non-proportional font.
  • Configurable font for HTML and BASIC source code.
  • Support for drawing objects in headers and footers

Draw/Impress

  • Alternative language support for spell check on text drawing object.
  • New command line option -start to start the presentation automatically after the document is loaded.

Spreadsheet:

  • Import and export of areas in charts in Excel files that are formatted with bitmaps, textures or hatchings.
  • The sum button inserts a sum function or a subtotal function, depending on context.
  • Support for Excel 95 (and older) form controls

Database:

  • Table control via keyboard navigation in table designer.
  • Added ability to switch off brackets for bibliography fields.
  • New database type in data source administration dialog - MySQL.
  • Ability to add labels to field names in the report wizard.
  • A data source can now use any character set known to OpenOffice.org.
  • UI support for user installed database drivers.
  • Database Report Wizard

Writing Aids

  • Autodetection of newly installed languages for spellchecker, thesaurus and hyphenator.
  • Integrated support for spell checking English (US and UK) and Italian
  • Integrated support for hyphenation of Danish, English (UK and US), German and Russian
  • Initial support for spell checking Hindi
  • Spell checking uses n-gram scoring for suggestions

Programing and Automation

  • Macro Recorder
  • Crash reporter for collecting crash dump and error information
  • Integrated Python-UNO bridge allowing creation of UNO components in Python
  • A new java to native UNO bridge with up to 10 times better performance.
  • Detection of a misconfigured Java installation.
  • OpenOffice.org ActiveX Control (Windows only).
  • Additional property pages for OpenOffice.org file types in Windows Explorer.

Other Enhancements

  • Windows 98 users need not download unicows.dll
  • The splash screen now has a progress bar.
  • Improved online help content.
  • Improved configurability of dialogs and toolbars.
  • Improved URL autocompletion in hyperlink dialog.
  • The context menu now contains 'Open Hyperlink' if opened on a URL.
  • Locking of user installations against accesses from multiple machines with shared directories.
  • Command line tools and an API for importing configuration data into the backend.
  • Document windows are now always created in a cascade to avoid new window completely overlapping the old one.
  • Support for registering add-ons and accessing add-ons via an auto-generated menu.
  • New FTP file access component.
  • The registration dialog will now display instead of addressbook data source selection on first run.
  • Support for recovering slightly damaged OpenOffice.org files.
  • New ppd file for generic postscript printing with type42 font support.
  • Support for copy/paste of bitmap graphics on Unix.

A Graphical presentation of the highlights is also available.