Differences between version 11 and predecessor to the previous major change of OpenOffice.org.
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| Newer page: | version 11 | Last edited on Friday, February 24, 2006 3:15:21 pm | by IanMcDonald | Revert |
| Older page: | version 10 | Last edited on Friday, February 24, 2006 2:56:19 pm | by CraigBox | Revert |
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* It is pretty good at importing MicrosoftWord documents (other than VisualBasic macros).
* Version 1.1 and later can export to [PDF] natively, so you can type up documents and then make nice PDF files with TrueType fonts in it. (The [PDF] page lists some good reasons why emailing PDF files around is better than emailing word-processor files around).
* The Debian package of version 1.1 uses native [GTK2] widgets, so it fits nicely into a [GNOME] desktop. (There is a subproject of openoffice to use native widgets on all platforms - see http://people.redhat.com/dcbw/. GTK and Win32 are already supported but it is not yet in the main [CVS] branch. Good on Debian for including it already!)
* Redhat, Novell and Debian are all using the same CVS server on gnome.org which includes these additions.
-* Open file format - it uses [XML] so you will never be in the situation where you have old documents but can't extract any information out of it.
+* Open file format - it uses [XML] so you will never be in the situation where you have old documents but can't extract any information out of it. In version 2.0 it changed to another format called OpenDocument which is also XML based but is designed to be used by multiple applications
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* Version 1.1 is much improved over version 1.0, especially in terms of start-up time.
[OpenOffice.org] is included on [TheOpenCD], which is an easy way for windows users to try this great OpenSource software without having to commit to a large change.
