[plug] OpenOffice.org 1.1

[Kai]

Ben,

I know you're on dial-up but would you be able to arrange to have this 
put on 3FL ?

Chris Caston wrote:

> They made it load faster!!!!!
> 
> I must thank the OO.o team this legal high!
> 
> 
> On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 11:45, Leon Brooks wrote:
> 
>>I've just had a "play" with OOo 1.1b3 (I needed one of its new features 
>>for a particular project) and I have to say I'm _seriously_ impressed.
>>
>>The spacing of text in menus and the framework stuff looks a little bit 
>>odd (too open) but the app itself is blindingly fast compared with 
>>1.0.2 (like 3 seconds startup - with progress bar - instead of over 20) 
>>and has a bundle of neato features, all of which seem to work as 
>>advertised.
>>
>>The feature I needed 1.1 for was Flash export, and that works 
>>flawlessly. The only thing I would ask for before using it as an actual 
>>presentation technique (ie a portable Impress/PowerPoint replacement) 
>>is a way to back up through the presentation. It turned a 
>>graphics-heavy 695kB SXI file (Which exports to 709kB of PPT) into a 
>>428kB SWF whose native resolution appears to be about 1000x1000.
>>
>>PDF export also works very well, although the files are 10x larger than 
>>the Flash and seem to lose the text antialiasing. It exports with the 
>>whole page set to the background colour, rather than a rectangle of 
>>backround colour on a white true-background as several other systems 
>>do. I now have no less than three ways of turning a document into a 
>>PDF; via OOo, via CUPS and via SaMBa.
>>
>>The window management has also been somewhat unbundled, which works well 
>>for me. Instead of having child windows obviously created and managed 
>>within OOo itself, I get floating KDE windows for things like the 
>>Stylist which of course gives me full KDE featuritis for them and looks 
>>more consistent too.
>>
>>I'm off to throw the MS-Windows version of it at a customer suffering 
>>from multiple independently-failing MS-Office versions. Jacqueline, 
>>feel free to do some back-pounding at your next OOo meeting, this is 
>>*great*! (-:
>>
>>Cheers; Leon