[plug] OpenOffice.org 1.1

[Ben Jensz]

Ummmm... can't see any mirrors with 1.1b3?

Unless we're talking 1.1rc3?



Kai wrote:

> Ben,
>
> I know you're on dial-up but would you be able to arrange to have this 
> put on 3FL ?
>
> Chris Caston wrote:
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>> 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
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