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OPENOFFICE.ORG NEWSLETTER
Volume 04 - Issue 12 - 06/2007
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Contents
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1. Announcements
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* OpenOffice.org Release 2.2.1
* Registration opens for the OpenOffice.org Annual Conference
2. Success Stories
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* Positive usibility certification for Munich's Linux client
* German City of Freiburg joins the ODF Alliance
3. Featured News
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* Another 12857% Speed Improvement
* Positive OpenOffice.org Review by eWeek
* Aqua developer snapshot available
* What's new in the Mac port?
* WordPerfect filters improving
* OpenOffice.org extension: Writer's Tools
4. Tips & Tricks
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* OpenTaal Publishes Dutch Word List
* Groovy For OpenOffice 0.1
* ODF conversion with Ant
* OpenOffice.org API Tutorial
* DTP with OpenOffice.org
* Supported compilers for building OpenOffice.org
5. OpenDocument News Roundup
6. Clippings
All news for this month can be found at:
http://ooonewsletter.blogspot.com/2007_06_01_ooonewsletter_archive.html
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Announcements
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OpenOffice.org Release 2.2.1
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"The OpenOffice.org Community announces the availability of OpenOffice.org
Release 2.2.1. This is a minor bug fix release - full details of the
changes may be found in the Release Notes:
http://development.openoffice.org/releases/2.2.1.html";
http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=announce&msgNo=327
Registration opens for the OpenOffice.org Annual Conference
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"The draft Programme for the OpenOffice.org Annual Conference (OOoCon) is
now available under the "Programme" tab on the OOoCon 2007 web pages:
http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2007.";
http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=announce&msgNo=328
Success Stories
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Positive usibility certification for Munich's Linux client
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"According to the German press release below, Munich's Linux client "LiMux"
just got a positive certification from TÜViT regarding its usability.
The Linux client meets the requirements of the standards DIN EN ISO 9241
- 110 and - 11. From my point of view, this is just another proof point
that the world is ready for alternative desktop clients."
http://www.verivox.de/News/ArticleDetails.asp?aid=52715&pm=1
German City of Freiburg joins the ODF Alliance
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According to the latest ODF Alliance newsletter, the German City of
Freiburg just joined the ODF Alliance. "The Alliance now includes
412 member organization in 52 countries."
http://www.odfalliance.org/press/Newsletter20070628.pdf
Featured News
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Another 12857% Speed Improvement
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"With integration of CWS dr54 a quite small but very effective change
regarding updates of references to external documents when loading a
spreadsheet will become available. In a customer's test case document
this brought down loading time from over 15 minutes to 7 seconds, which
is by factor 128 or more."
http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/another_12857_speed_improvement
Positive OpenOffice.org Review by eWeek
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"IT managers looking for alternatives to Microsoft Office—particularly
those unwilling to make the leap to Office 2007—will find
OpenOffice.org 2.2 well worth evaluating because, as the suite offers
a good solution for cutting software costs while expanding platform
options and minimizing compatibility issues."
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2146421,00.asp
Aqua developer snapshot available
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A developer snapshot of the Aqua version of OpenOffice.org has been
made available.
http://eric.bachard.free.fr/news/2007/06/aqua-development-snapshot-available-for.html
What's new in the Mac port?
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"* improved native look of controls (e.g. native background for dialog windows)
* mouse enter and leave events are received now
* the event loop was improved for better speed.
* testtool has begun to work
* cursor traveling works better now
* XOR rendering (e.g. gradients now look like they should)
* PDF export works now
* Basic printing works now
* Clipboard support works now"
http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/proceedings_of_the_macport1
OpenOffice.org extension: Writer's Tools
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"Writer's Tools is an OpenOffice.org extension that includes the
following macros:
* Lookup Tool allows you to lookup the currently selected word in
several online references, including Cambridge Dictionaries,
WordNet, and Google Define.
* Google Translate allows users to quickly translate selected text
fragments between different languages using the Google Translate
service.
* Show on the Map tool allows you to select a city, a street name,
or a postal code and map it using the Multimap service.
* Email Backup can be used to quickly send a backup copy of the
currently opened document to a specified email address."
http://nothickmanuals.info/doku.php/writertools
WordPerfect filters improving
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"The import of embedded pictures is one of the most overdue features
in our WordPerfect(tm) converter. So, I jumped on the task when this
opportunity came. And fortunately, not everything had to be coded from
scratch. Ariya, in the frame of a Google Summer of Code project gave a
decisive push to libwpg and he has kept working on improving it."
http://fridrich.blogspot.com/2007/06/it-was-said-it-was-repeated-and.html
Tips & Tricks
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OpenTaal Publishes Dutch Word List
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"Since the end of 2005 the project OpenTaal has worked to improve and
extend an existing open source Dutch word list. The approved word list
contains more than 140.000 keywords. The word list is available in
packages that can be installed in OpenOffice.org, Firefox and Thunderbird.
The approved word list is available under a free license (LGPL) and may
be used by open source projects."
http://ooonewsletter.blogspot.com/2007/06/opentaal-publishes-dutch-word-list.html
Groovy For OpenOffice 0.1
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"Groovy For OpenOffice is an OpenOffice.org extension which adds support
for scripting OpenOffice.org Macros in Groovy."
http://ooonewsletter.blogspot.com/2007/06/groovy-for-openoffice-01.html
ODF conversion with Ant
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"In case you did not know, it's quite easy to modify ODF files using
Ant scripts. Here is the screenshot of a testdoc.odt file that includes
some information which I want to remove with a script. As you can see in
the screenshot, the file contains change tracking information, a line
that is marked with a style sheet called "Confidential", a phone number
and an email address. I want to remove all these pieces of information
with a script, so that other people can't see them anymore."
http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/odf_conversion_with_ant
OpenOffice.org API Tutorial
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"A useful feature for many business applications is functionality
allowing the user to generate reports from data in an application.
Spreadsheets are ideal for this purpose. Not only does a spreadsheet
lay data out in a structured, scanable format, but it also gives the
user the opportunity to quickly and efficiently perform calculations
on data. As it happens, the OpenOffice.org API exposes a very wide
range of classes and methods that let you, the developer, integrate
the OpenOffice.org spreadsheet application, called Calc, into your
application. A simple click of a button in an application can start
up OpenOffice.org and transfer the application's data to a
customized spreadsheet."
http://platform.netbeans.org/tutorials/nbm-open-office.html
http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/regarding_openoffice_org_development_with
http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/netbeans_podcast_talks_about_openoffice
DTP with OpenOffice.org
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"Draw and Writer have similar tools for positioning text, but Draw is
better suited for text mixed with graphics or for highly variable pages,
while Writer is designed for text-heavy documents with minimal variation
in the pages. Both lack some of the fine controls of a high-end layout
program, but their features are complete enough that either can be used
to produce professional-looking work.
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Despite some limitations and omissions, both Draw and Writer are more
than adequate for many desktop publishing tasks. Several publishing
houses, including No Starch Press, have experimented with using Writer
as their basic layout program -- a move that saves time, since writers
can work in a standard template that designers do not have to reformat
before sending books to the printer."
http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/05/23/2055214
Supported compilers for building OpenOffice.org
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"With milestone SRC680 m218 SunStudio 12 enters the list of supported
compilers for building OOo. Actually the only change needed was to add
a SunStudio 12 test to configure. This is amazing, considering the
amount of new features and changes which went into the latest
SunStudio version on one hand and the diversity of the OOo code base
on the other hand."
http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/supported_compilers_for_building_ooo
OpenDocument News Roundup
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Swiss Scientific Body Recommends ODF
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"The Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW) has endorsed ODF. Noting
the support that exists for ODF in 20+ commercial applications, SATW
recommended its use in Switzerland in both the private and public sector
as well as in education.
SATW (de) - http://www.satw.ch/aktuell/odf
NZZ (Krieg der Standards) - http://www.nzz.ch/2007/06/20/ft/articleF9VMC.html";
http://www.odfalliance.org/press/Newsletter20070628.pdf
German government considering ODF mandate
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"According to the German article below, which is a summary of a panel
discussion at the LinuxTag event in Berlin, the governing coalition in
Germany is considering a mandate for open standards in general and ODF
in particular. Key goals are improving the competitive situation and
strengthening the position of smaller companies. According to the
article, the governing coalition sees ODF as a standard that can help
to increase competition in the office productivity market. Big players
should not be able to dictate the market."
http://www.heise.de/open/artikel/90475
Clippings
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* Helping make OpenOffice.org’s dialog resizable
http://blog.kohei.us/2007/06/26/hack-week-helping-make-ooos-dialog-resizable/
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