[ Thanks to Sander
Vesik for this link. ]
I am glad to announce that the Beta 2 of the next version of the
OpenOffice.org Office Suite–OpenOffice.org 1.1–is now available
for download from: http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/source/1.1beta2/index.html
OpenOffice.org 1.1 Beta2 represents a significant advance in the
application and incorporates the features and changes introduced in
the developer builds over the past year. The release includes a
massive amount of new and exciting functionality, features and
bugfixes compared to the OpenOffice.org 1.0.x releases, the
highlights of which are:
- Many new import/export formats like DocBook, several PDA Office
file formats, flat XML and XHTML - Support for PDF and Macromedia Flash export
- Support for Complex Text Layout (CTL) and vertical writing
languages such as Thai, Hindi, Arabic, Hebrew - Enhanced integration with Java
- Support for Accessibility
- Enhanced support for add-on components
- Improved online help
- Support for new languages and locales
New since OpenOffice.org 1.1 beta:
- Support for printer independent layout
- GUI support for xslt based filters
- Improvements to pdf export
- Enhanced ole editing support on windows
- A large number of bugfixes
For a more complete list of features please see http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/source/1.1beta2/features.html
For people interested in getting started helping OpenOffice.org
become better, faster, and above all more bugfree, a page detailing
how to best file bugs, how to help the QA project deal with bug
reports, how to run OpenOffice.org with Valgrind and a number of
ready made bug query scripts, exists at http://www.kegel.com/openoffice/