Linux Journal: The Changing Face of Charts in OpenOffice.org
Sep 07, 2006, 10:30 (1 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Bruce Byfield)
"The charting component is probably the least satisfactory part
of OpenOffice.org. A few minutes with the issue tracker shows that,
since OpenOffice.org 2.0 was released, 62 issues have been filed
for charting. By contrast, the bibliography component and the
formula editor, two other problematic subsystems that are
comparable in size, have nine and 27 issues files against them
respectively. Work has begun on many of the issues about charts,
but complete relief is unlikely to come until the final release of
Chart 2, the rewriting of the charting component that is due to be
part of the as-yet unscheduled 2.6 version of the office suite.
However, those who are impatient to see what changes are coming can
get a few ideas from the recent release of Milestone 8, an alpha
version of Chart 2 that gives the first glimpse of what
improvements to expect, not just in the way of bug fixes, but, more
importantly, in interface improvements..."
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