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informed about Apache OpenOffice</a></li>
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-</div></p><h1
id="AOO4.1ReleaseNotes-THISISADRAFTPAGE.APACHEOPENOFFICE4.1.0HASNOTBEENRELEASEDYET."><span
style="color: red;">THIS IS A DRAFT PAGE. APACHE OPENOFFICE 4.1.0 HAS NOT BEEN
RELEASED YET.</span></h1><p><span style="color: red;">Â </span></p><h2
id="AOO4.1ReleaseNotes-GeneralRemarks">General Remarks</h2><p><a
href="http://www.openoffice.org/download/"; class="external-link"
rel="nofollow">Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0</a> is a minor feature release. All
users of Apache OpenOffice 4.0.1 or earlier are advised to upgrade. You can
download Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/download/";
class="external-link" rel="nofollow">here</a>.</p><p>Please review these
Release Notes to learn what is new in this version as well as important remarks
concerning known issues and their workarounds.</p><p>Along with the new
features described later in these Release Notes, our Bugzilla issue tracking
database provides a <a href="https://issues.apache.org/ooo/buglist.cgi?cmdtype
=dorem&remaction=run&namedcmd=AOO_410_Resolved" class="external-link"
rel="nofollow">detailed list of resolved issues</a>.</p><p>Other general areas
of improvement include: Improvements to interoperability, feature enhancements,
bug fixes and new and updated translations.</p><p>Note: Mac users should be
aware that with this release Apache OpenOffice is a 64-bit application and
requires Mac OSX 10.7 or above.</p><h2 id="AOO4.1ReleaseNotes-NewFeatures">New
Features</h2><h3
id="AOO4.1ReleaseNotes-Comments/Annotationsontextranges">Comments/Annotations
on text ranges</h3><p>In Writer comments/annotations are now possible on text
ranges instead of only at text positions.</p><p>This feature was introduced in
the Open Document Format (ODF) in version 1.2 and improves, among other things,
the interoperability with the OOXML file format, but until now had not been
implemented in OpenOffice. The <a
href="http://www.osb-alliance.de/working-groups/projekte/ooxml-filter/";
class="external-
link" rel="nofollow">OSBA OOXML improvement project</a> included the
implementation of this feature.  This feature is an improved version of the
code written by SUSE for this OSBA project, where the patches made available to
us under the Apache License 2.0.</p><p><img class="confluence-embedded-image"
width="900" src="attachments/31822142/39190656.png"
data-image-src="attachments/31822142/39190656.png"></p><p>Details on the
feature:</p><ul><li>Comment/annotation on a text range inside a paragraph (part
of OSBA project)</li><li>Comment/annotation on arbitrary text
ranges</li><li>Comments/annotations on overlapping text
ranges</li><li>Highlight of commented/annotated text range (part of OSBA
project plus needed improvements)</li><li>ODF import/export<ul><li>Basic
import/export functionality (part of OSBA project plus needed
fixes)</li><li>Support for author initials (part of OSBA project plus needed
ODF conformance fix)</li></ul></li><li>OOXML import<ul><li>Basic import functio
nality (part of OSBA project)</li><li>Import of author initials (part of OSBA
project plus needed fix)</li><li>Import of author and creation
date</li></ul></li></ul><h3
id="AOO4.1ReleaseNotes-SupportforiAccessible2">Support for
iAccessible2</h3><p>OpenOffice 4.1 Windows version integrates IAccessible2
support and drops the legacy Java access bridge, offering better integration
with top screen readers such as JAWS and NVDA. This feature will activate
automatically when MSAA/IA2 compatible screen reader is running. Numerous
accessibility enhancements and bug fixes are delivered in Writer, Impress, and
Calc. OpenOffice 4.1 brings a much better user experience for Windows users
with visual impairments than previous versions.</p><h2
id="AOO4.1ReleaseNotes-Improvements/Enhancements">Improvements/Enhancements</h2><h3
id="AOO4.1ReleaseNotes-In-placeeditingofInputFields">In-place editing of Input
Fields</h3><p>In Writer the user experience for editing Input Fields has been
improved.</p><
p>The user can now modify the content of an Input Field directly in the
document's text area - no additional dialog is needed. When traveling with the
cursor into an Input Field the users gets feedback about Entering and Leaving
the Input Field. A bounding rectangle is drawn around the Input Field when the
cursor is inside the Input Field - see following illustration.</p><p><img
class="confluence-embedded-image" width="900"
confluence-query-params="effects=drop-shadow"
src="attachments/31822142/39190655.png?effects=drop-shadow"
data-image-src="attachments/31822142/39190655.png?effects=drop-shadow"><br
/>When the cursor is inside an Input Field the user can navigate to the next or
the previous Input Field using the TAB-key respectively the SHIFT-TAB-Key -
similar to the navigation from one cell to another cell inside a table. To
insert a TAB-character into an Input Field CTRL-TAB-key has to be
used.</p><p>In read-only text documents the user can still edit the existing
Input Fields a
nd navigate from one Input Field to the other. Also the field shadings are
visible for Input Fields in read-only text documents.</p><p>Input Fields can
only contain text without formatting. Accordingly, the corresponding edit and
insert actions for Input Fields are restricted and character formattings are
applied to the complete Input Field. This means no change compared to former
OpenOffice versions.</p><p>Further details on this user experience improvement
are given in the project's wiki - see <a
href="https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Writer/Input_Fields";
class="external-link" rel="nofollow">In-place editing of Input
Fields</a></p><h3 id="AOO4.1ReleaseNotes-InteractiveCropFeature">Interactive
Crop Feature</h3><p>The Interactive Crop feature for selected Graphic Objects
in Draw/Impress allows intuitive cropping of Graphic Object content. However,
it previously only worked flawlessly when the object was not transformed,
except being translated and scaled. For AOO 4.0 a preview of th
e crop was already added. For AOO 4.1 the interactive cropping will now work
in combination with all possible Graphic Object transformations. If your
Graphic Object is rotated, sheared, mirrored in X and/or Y, it can now be
interactively cropped flawlessly. Also the cropped result will be correct now
in all combinations of transformations and all possible graphic contents (pixel
graphics, metafiles, SVG, ...) in all exports (Print, PDF Export,
...).</p><p><img class="confluence-embedded-image"
src="attachments/31822142/40009829.png"
data-image-src="attachments/31822142/40009829.png"></p><p>The example shows a
rotated and sheared Graphic Object that gets interactively cropped to show only
a part of the world map.</p><h3
id="AOO4.1ReleaseNotes-ImportPicturefromFileandDrag&DropofGraphicData">Import
Picture from File and Drag & Drop of Graphic Data</h3><p>Importing
Picture/Graphic Data from File and Drag & Drop of that data has been
enhanced and unified for all situa
tions and all Applications of AOO 4.1. The main goal was to make the re-use of
existing documents or copy/paste of single pages easier by allowing simpler
replacement of the content of existing Graphic Objects. You can now, for
example, copy/paste Slides and easily replace the graphic content of Graphic
Objects without changing their Position or Orientation. This is also possible
for Writer Graphic Objects, so e.g., copy/paste Pages in Writer containing
Graphic Objects or copying Pages from another Document and then replace the
Pictures.</p><p>The following actions work the same in all AOO 4.1
Applications:</p><p>For using the Import Picture from File
Dialog:</p><ul><li>If no Graphic Object is selected, a new one will be inserted
at Cursor position (as usual)</li><li>If a Graphic Object is selected, its
content will be replaced without changing the Position or
Orientation</li><li>If a Draw Object is selected, the new Graphic content will
be used as Graphic FillStyle for that Object<
/li><li>Selecting the 'Link' feature in the Dialog will create a linked
Graphic Object in the first two cases</li></ul><p>For Drag &
Drop:</p><ul><li>If there is no Graphic Object at the drop position, a new one
will be inserted there (as usual)</li><li>If there is a Graphic Object at the
drop position, its content will be replaced without changing the Position or
Orientation</li><li>If there is a Draw Object at the drop position, the new
Graphic content will be used as Graphic FillStyle for that
Object</li><li>Pressing CTRL+SHIFT will create a linked Graphic Object in the
first two cases</li></ul><p>This was an enhancement request to make re-usage of
existing Graphic Objects easier - the problem was that the user had to insert a
new Graphic Object, note the Position and Size of the old one and apply this to
the new one to cleanly replace the old Graphic Object. Thanks for requesting
that enhancement in AOO Bugzilla!</p><h3
id="AOO4.1ReleaseNotes-Load/Importof3DChartsimproved">L
oad/Import of 3D Charts improved</h3><p>There was a performance problem when
Documents with big 3D charts were Loaded (own Formats) or Imported (external
Formats). That issue was located in the creation of a huge amount of 3D Objects
for Chart visualization. This has been improved. For example; an example
document (External with a huge Chart containing 100x100x5 vertical 3D Data
Boxes) could not be imported at all. It can now be loaded in seconds and looks
like this:</p><p><img class="confluence-embedded-image"
src="attachments/31822142/40009830.png"
data-image-src="attachments/31822142/40009830.png"></p><p>This improvement
allows to work with much bigger 3D Charts in AOO 4.1.</p><h3
id="AOO4.1ReleaseNotes-ImprovedGraphicModifications/FiltersforVectorGraphics">Improved
Graphic Modifications/Filters for Vector Graphics</h3><p>When applying
Modifications and/or Filters to Graphic Objects the change was often applied by
internally changing the Vector Graphic (SVG or Metafile) to a Pixe
l-Based variant. This makes the advantages of Vector Graphics vanish and often
results in bad output quality for Print and PDF export. Also the handling of
Graphic Objects varied between Writer and other AOO Applications in this
aspect. This has been internally unified so that all usages of Vector Data in
Graphic Objects are equally improved for this aspect and in the
future.</p><p>It is not possible to enhance all modifications AOO offers to
GraphicObjects to Vector Graphics in this way, but many were improved. Vector
Graphics will stay enhanced when applying the following
modifications:</p><ul><li>Gray
scale</li><li>Black/White</li><li>Watermark</li><li>Transparency (additional,
0% to 100%)</li><li>Red/Green/Blue modification (-100% to
100%)</li><li>Brightness (-100% to 100%)</li><li>Contrast (-100% to
100%)</li><li>Gamma Correction (0.10 to 10)</li></ul><p>This also works for all
combinations of the above modifications. This enhancement is already visible in
the Edit Views, but i
ts main goal is to increase Print and PDF export quality (and other exports
that can keep Vector Data) when working with Vector Graphic content
accordingly. Here is an example from the Edit Views (Left: AOO 4.0.1, Right:
AOO 4.1). It's the same SVG graphic modified to Grayscale:</p><p><img
class="confluence-embedded-image" src="attachments/31822142/40009831.png"
data-image-src="attachments/31822142/40009831.png"></p><h3
id="AOO4.1ReleaseNotes-KeeporiginalGraphicDatawheneverpossible">Keep original
Graphic Data when ever possible</h3><p>Previous versions of AOO eventually
modified the type of inserted Graphic Data, for example inserted JPEG files
were in some scenarios saved as PNG in the created ODF files. These scenarios
were different for the different AOO Applications since it was not handled the
same internally. This has been improved so that AOO 4.1 handles this equal in
all Applications and tries to always keep your inserted original Graphic Data
when possible. This gives advan
tages for the file size of the created ODF Files, but also for the Image
quality. There were scenarios in which JPEG files were recoded to JPEG which
will in no case improve the image quality but has the potential to lower
it.</p><p>This works for BMP, JPEG, PNG and GIF for pixel-oriented graphics. It
is also in place for Vector-based Graphics like SVG and Metafiles.</p><h3
id="AOO4.1ReleaseNotes-ClipboardenhancementsforGraphicContent">Clipboard
enhancements for Graphic Content</h3><p>The Clipboard support for exchange of
PNG is further improved, so that Pixel-based Graphic modification cycles (e.g.
copying graphic content to an external Application, modifying it and copying it
back to AOO 4.1) will work better with more external Image Editors of your
choice. Broader support for PNG means that transparency in Pixel-based graphics
will be preserved in more places. Did you know that you can copy any Graphic
Object from AOO 4.1 to the clipboard and paste it to any external Image editor
of your choice to modify them and copy them back?</p><p>Â </p><h3
id="AOO4.1ReleaseNotes-OtherImprovements/Enhancements">Other
Improvements/Enhancements</h3><h4
id="AOO4.1ReleaseNotes-SeamonkeyreplacedbyNSS("NetworkSecurityServices")">Seamonkey
replaced by NSS ("Network Security Services")</h4><p>Outdated code
from Mozilla that was used to include cryptography services and address book
access has been replaced with the more modern and more secure NSS libraries.
This greatly simplifies the build process and source code maintenance and is
transparent to end users in general.</p><p>End users are affected only in the
following ways:</p><ul><li>Under Windows XP, trying to add the Windows Address
Book as an OpenOffice database; this has always been the case on any newer
Windows versions (Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows
8).</li></ul><ul><li>Thunderbird users will not see direct Thunderbird address
book support in OpenOffice's address book wizard, but the OpenOff
ice support for CSV can replace it for now. Users can use Thunderbird's
Tools->Export->AsCsv functionality to get their address book as comma
separated text.</li></ul><ul><li>Authenticated LDAP access is now unsupported
(the non-authenticated access was already unsupported).</li></ul><h2
id="AOO4.1ReleaseNotes-Removed/RetiredFeatures">Removed/Retired
Features</h2><ul><li>Support for Macintosh OSX 10.6 and below has been dropped.
Please see the <a
href="http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/source/sys_reqs_aoo41.html";
class="external-link" rel="nofollow">System Requirements</a>.</li></ul><h2
id="AOO4.1ReleaseNotes-BugFixes">Bug Fixes</h2><p><a
href="https://issues.apache.org/ooo/buglist.cgi?cmdtype=dorem&remaction=run&namedcmd=AOO_410_Resolved";
class="external-link" rel="nofollow">See the list in Bugzilla</a>.</p><h2
id="AOO4.1ReleaseNotes-AdditionalLanguageSupport">Additional Language
Support</h2><h3
id="AOO4.1ReleaseNotes-NewtranslationsavailableinApacheOpenOffice4.1incl
ude:">New translations available in Apache OpenOffice 4.1 include:</h3><div
class="table-wrap"><table class="confluenceTable"><tbody><tr><td
style="text-align: center;" class="confluenceTd"><p>Bulgarian (bg)</p></td><td
colspan="1" style="text-align: center;" class="confluenceTd">Danish
(da)</td><td colspan="1" style="text-align: center;"
class="confluenceTd">Hebrew (he)</td></tr><tr><td style="text-align: center;"
class="confluenceTd"><p>Hindi (hi)</p></td><td colspan="1" style="text-align:
center;" class="confluenceTd">Kazakh (kk)</td><td colspan="1"
style="text-align: center;" class="confluenceTd">Norwegian Bokmal
(nb)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" style="text-align: center;"
class="confluenceTd">Thai (th)</td><td colspan="1" style="text-align: center;"
class="confluenceTd">Â </td><td colspan="1" style="text-align: center;"
class="confluenceTd">Â </td></tr></tbody></table></div><h3
id="AOO4.1ReleaseNotes-UpdatedtranslationsavailableinApacheOpenOffice4.1include:">Updated
transl
ations available in Apache OpenOffice 4.1 include:</h3><div
class="table-wrap"><table class="confluenceTable"><tbody><tr><td
class="confluenceTd"><p style="text-align: center;">Basque (eu)</p></td><td
class="confluenceTd"><p style="text-align: center;">Dutch (nl)</p></td><td
style="text-align: center;" class="confluenceTd">German (de)</td></tr><tr><td
colspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><span>Â </span>Lithuanian (lt)</td><td
colspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><span><span>Portuguese
(pt)</span></span></td><td colspan="1" class="confluenceTd">Serbian
(sr)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" class="confluenceTd">Spanish (es)</td><td
colspan="1" class="confluenceTd">Turkish (tr)</td><td colspan="1"
class="confluenceTd">Â </td></tr></tbody></table></div><p><strong>For a
complete list of available languages and language packs see:</strong></p><p><a
class="external-link" href="http://www.openoffice.org/download/other.html";
rel="nofollow">http://www.openoffice.org/download/other.html</a></p><h3 id=
"AOO4.1ReleaseNotes-NewandUpdatedDictionaries">New and Updated
Dictionaries</h3><h4 id="AOO4.1ReleaseNotes-NewDictionaries">New
Dictionaries</h4><div class="table-wrap"><table
class="confluenceTable"><tbody><tr><td class="confluenceTd">Lithuanian
(lt)</td><td colspan="1" class="confluenceTd">Portuguese
(pt-PT)</td></tr></tbody></table></div><h4
id="AOO4.1ReleaseNotes-UpdatedDictionaries">Updated Dictionaries</h4><div
class="table-wrap"><table class="confluenceTable"><tbody><tr><td
class="confluenceTd">English (en) see note</td><td colspan="1"
class="confluenceTd">German (de)</td><td colspan="1"
class="confluenceTd">Gaelic
(gd)</td></tr></tbody></table></div><p><strong>Note: The extension contains
multiple variants. Only the en-GB dictionary has been updated.</strong></p><h2
id="AOO4.1ReleaseNotes-KnownIssues">Known Issues</h2><ul><li>Apache OpenOffice
4.1.0 will be flagged by the new Gatekeeper facility in Mac OS X Mountain Lion
and Maverick. This is a new feature to help guard agai
nst malware on Mac systems. There is a procedure laid out at the following
link to allow applications not installed from the Mac App store to run. See the
article at Mac support at <a href="http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5290";
class="external-link"
rel="nofollow">http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5290</a>.</li></ul><ul><li>Apache
OpenOffice 4.1.0 supports Java 7, which is the recommended configuration; but
(especially on 64-bit Windows) you might receive warnings about the Java
version being defective. In that case, download and install the <a
href="http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/B/C/5BC5DBB3-652D-4DCE-B14A-475AB85EEF6E/vcredist_x86.exe";
class="external-link" rel="nofollow">Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable
Package</a>. If you still have problems, install <a
href="http://www.java.com/java6download/"; class="external-link"
rel="nofollow">the most current JRE 6 version</a>. Make sure you get the file
"Windows x86 Offline (32-bit)". Then configure OpenOffice to us
e it at "Tools - Options - OpenOffice - Java". See <a
href="http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=54974";
class="external-link" rel="nofollow">this forum topic</a> for more
information.</li><li>Dictionaries for Spell Check are temporarily only included
in complete localized Installers and not in Language packs (<a
href="https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124423";
class="external-link" rel="nofollow">Issue 124423</a>). They can be installed
as extensions using Tools->Extension Manager.<br /><br /></li></ul><h2
id="AOO4.1ReleaseNotes-StayinformedaboutApacheOpenOffice">Stay informed about
Apache OpenOffice</h2><p>You are encouraged to subscribe to the Apache
OpenOffice announcement mailing list to receive important notifications such as
product updates and security patches. To subscribe you can send an email to: <a
href="mailto:[email protected]"; class="external-link"
rel="nofollow">[email protected]
ache.org</a>.</p><p>You can also follow the project on <a
href="https://twitter.com/#%21/apacheoo"; class="external-link"
rel="nofollow">Twitter</a>, <a href="http://www.facebook.com/ApacheOO";
class="external-link" rel="nofollow">Facebook</a> and <a
href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/114598373874764163668/posts";
class="external-link" rel="nofollow">Google+</a>.</p>
+</div></p><h1
id="AOO4.1ReleaseNotes-THISISADRAFTPAGE.APACHEOPENOFFICE4.1.0HASNOTBEENRELEASEDYET."><span
style="color: red;">THIS IS A DRAFT PAGE. APACHE OPENOFFICE 4.1.0 HAS NOT BEEN
RELEASED YET.</span></h1><p><span style="color: red;">Â </span></p><h2
id="AOO4.1ReleaseNotes-GeneralRemarks">General Remarks</h2><p><a
href="http://www.openoffice.org/download/"; class="external-link"
rel="nofollow">Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0</a> is a minor feature release. All
users of Apache OpenOffice 4.0.1 or earlier are advised to upgrade. You can
download Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/download/";
class="external-link" rel="nofollow">here</a>.</p><p>Please review these
Release Notes to learn what is new in this version as well as important remarks
concerning known issues and their workarounds.</p><p>Along with the new
features described later in these Release Notes, our Bugzilla issue tracking
database provides a <a href="http://s.apache.org/AOO410-solved"; class="exte
rnal-link" rel="nofollow">detailed list of resolved issues</a>.</p><p>Other
general areas of improvement include: Improvements to interoperability, feature
enhancements, bug fixes and new and updated translations.</p><p>Note: Mac users
should be aware that with this release Apache OpenOffice is a 64-bit
application and requires Mac OSX 10.7 or above.</p><h2
id="AOO4.1ReleaseNotes-NewFeatures">New Features</h2><h3
id="AOO4.1ReleaseNotes-Comments/Annotationsontextranges">Comments/Annotations
on text ranges</h3><p>In Writer comments/annotations are now possible on text
ranges instead of only at text positions.</p><p>This feature was introduced in
the Open Document Format (ODF) in version 1.2 and improves, among other things,
the interoperability with the OOXML file format, but until now had not been
implemented in OpenOffice. The <a
href="http://www.osb-alliance.de/working-groups/projekte/ooxml-filter/";
class="external-link" rel="nofollow">OSBA OOXML improvement project</a>
included th
e implementation of this feature.  This feature is an improved version of
the code written by SUSE for this OSBA project, where the patches made
available to us under the Apache License 2.0.</p><p><a
href="attachments/31822142/39190656.png"><img class="confluence-embedded-image"
alt="image" width="900" src="attachments/31822142/39190656.png"
data-image-src="attachments/31822142/39190656.png"></img></a></p><p>Details on
the feature:</p><ul><li>Comment/annotation on a text range inside a paragraph
(part of OSBA project)</li><li>Comment/annotation on arbitrary text
ranges</li><li>Comments/annotations on overlapping text
ranges</li><li>Highlight of commented/annotated text range (part of OSBA
project plus needed improvements)</li><li>ODF import/export<ul><li>Basic
import/export functionality (part of OSBA project plus needed
fixes)</li><li>Support for author initials (part of OSBA project plus needed
ODF conformance fix)</li></ul></li><li>OOXML import<ul><li>Basic import functio
nality (part of OSBA project)</li><li>Import of author initials (part of OSBA
project plus needed fix)</li><li>Import of author and creation
date</li></ul></li></ul><h3
id="AOO4.1ReleaseNotes-SupportforiAccessible2">Support for
iAccessible2</h3><p>OpenOffice 4.1 Windows version integrates IAccessible2
support and drops the legacy Java access bridge, offering better integration
with top screen readers such as JAWS and NVDA. This feature will activate
automatically when MSAA/IA2 compatible screen reader is running. Numerous
accessibility enhancements and bug fixes are delivered in Writer, Impress, and
Calc. OpenOffice 4.1 brings a much better user experience for Windows users
with visual impairments than previous versions.</p><h2
id="AOO4.1ReleaseNotes-Improvements/Enhancements">Improvements/Enhancements</h2><h3
id="AOO4.1ReleaseNotes-In-placeeditingofInputFields">In-place editing of Input
Fields</h3><p>In Writer the user experience for editing Input Fields has been
improved.</p><
p>The user can now modify the content of an Input Field directly in the
document's text area - no additional dialog is needed. When traveling with the
cursor into an Input Field the users
+gets feedback about Entering and Leaving the Input Field. A bounding rectangle
is drawn around the Input Field when the cursor is inside the Input Field - see
following illustration.</p><p><a
href="attachments/31822142/39190655.png?effects=drop-shadow"><img
class="confluence-embedded-image" alt="image" width="900"
confluence-query-params="effects=drop-shadow"
src="attachments/31822142/39190655.png?effects=drop-shadow"
data-image-src="attachments/31822142/39190655.png?effects=drop-shadow"></a></img><br
/>When the cursor is inside an Input Field the user can navigate to the next
or the previous Input Field using the TAB-key respectively the SHIFT-TAB-Key -
similar to the navigation from one cell to another cell inside a table. To
insert a TAB-character into an Input Field CTRL-TAB-key has to be
used.</p><p>In read-only text documents the user can still edit the existing
Input Fields and navigate from one Input Field to the other. Also the field
shadings are visible for Input Fields i
n read-only text documents.</p><p>Input Fields can only contain text without
formatting. Accordingly, the corresponding edit and insert actions for Input
Fields are restricted and character formattings are applied to the complete
Input Field. This means no change compared to former OpenOffice
versions.</p><p>Further details on this user experience improvement are given
in the project's wiki - see <a
href="https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Writer/Input_Fields";
class="external-link" rel="nofollow">In-place editing of Input
Fields</a></p><h3 id="AOO4.1ReleaseNotes-InteractiveCropFeature">Interactive
Crop Feature</h3><p>The Interactive Crop feature for selected Graphic Objects
in Draw/Impress allows intuitive cropping of Graphic Object content. However,
it previously only worked flawlessly when the object was not transformed,
except being translated and scaled. For AOO 4.0 a preview of the crop was
already added. For AOO 4.1 the interactive cropping will now work in
combination with
all possible Graphic Object transformations. If your Graphic Object is
rotated, sheared, mirrored in X and/or Y, it can now be interactively cropped
flawlessly. Also the cropped result will be correct now in all combinations of
transformations and all possible graphic contents (pixel graphics, metafiles,
SVG, ...) in all exports (Print, PDF Export, ...).</p><p><a
href="attachments/31822142/40009829.png"><img class="confluence-embedded-image"
alt="image" src="attachments/31822142/40009829.png"
data-image-src="attachments/31822142/40009829.png"></img></a></p><p>The example
shows a rotated and sheared Graphic Object that gets interactively cropped to
show only a part of the world map.</p><h3
id="AOO4.1ReleaseNotes-ImportPicturefromFileandDrag&DropofGraphicData">Import
Picture from File and Drag & Drop of Graphic Data</h3><p>Importing
Picture/Graphic Data from File and Drag & Drop of that data has been
enhanced and unified for all situations and all Applications of AOO 4
.1. The main goal was to make the re-use of existing documents or copy/paste
of single pages easier by allowing simpler replacement of the content of
existing Graphic Objects. You can now, for example, copy/paste Slides and
easily replace the graphic content of Graphic Objects without changing their
Position or Orientation. This is also possible for Writer Graphic Objects, so
e.g., copy/paste Pages in Writer containing Graphic Objects or copying Pages
from another Document and then replace the Pictures.</p><p>The following
actions work the same in all AOO 4.1 Applications:</p><p>For using the Import
Picture from File Dialog:</p><ul><li>If no Graphic Object is selected, a new
one will be inserted at Cursor position (as usual)</li><li>If a Graphic Object
is selected, its content will be replaced without changing the Position or
Orientation</li><li>If a Draw Object is selected, the new Graphic content will
be used as Graphic FillStyle for that Object</li><li>Selecting the 'Link' featur
e in the Dialog will create a linked Graphic Object in the first two
cases</li></ul><p>For Drag & Drop:</p><ul><li>If there is no Graphic Object
at the drop position, a new one will be inserted there (as usual)</li><li>If
there is a Graphic Object at the drop
+position, its content will be replaced without changing the Position or
Orientation</li><li>If there is a Draw Object at the drop position, the new
Graphic content will be used as Graphic FillStyle for that
Object</li><li>Pressing CTRL+SHIFT will create a linked Graphic Object in the
first two cases</li></ul><p>This was an enhancement request to make re-usage of
existing Graphic Objects easier - the problem was that the user had to insert a
new Graphic Object, note the Position and Size of the old one and apply this to
the new one to cleanly replace the old Graphic Object. Thanks for requesting
that enhancement in AOO Bugzilla!</p><h3
id="AOO4.1ReleaseNotes-Load/Importof3DChartsimproved">Load/Import of 3D Charts
improved</h3><p>There was a performance problem when Documents with big 3D
charts were Loaded (own Formats) or Imported (external Formats). That issue was
located in the creation of a huge amount of 3D Objects for Chart visualization.
This has been improved. For example; an
example document (External with a huge Chart containing 100x100x5 vertical 3D
Data Boxes) could not be imported at all. It can now be loaded in seconds and
looks like this:</p><p><a href="attachments/31822142/40009830.png"><img
class="confluence-embedded-image" alt="image"
src="attachments/31822142/40009830.png"
data-image-src="attachments/31822142/40009830.png"></img></a></p><p>This
improvement allows to work with much bigger 3D Charts in AOO 4.1.</p><h3
id="AOO4.1ReleaseNotes-ImprovedGraphicModifications/FiltersforVectorGraphics">Improved
Graphic Modifications/Filters for Vector Graphics</h3><p>When applying
Modifications and/or Filters to Graphic Objects the change was often applied by
internally changing the Vector Graphic (SVG or Metafile) to a Pixel-Based
variant. This makes the advantages of Vector Graphics vanish and often results
in bad output quality for Print and PDF export. Also the handling of Graphic
Objects varied between Writer and other AOO Applications in this aspe
ct. This has been internally unified so that all usages of Vector Data in
Graphic Objects are equally improved for this aspect and in the
future.</p><p>It is not possible to enhance all modifications AOO offers to
GraphicObjects to Vector Graphics in this way, but many were improved. Vector
Graphics will stay enhanced when applying the following
modifications:</p><ul><li>Gray
scale</li><li>Black/White</li><li>Watermark</li><li>Transparency (additional,
0% to 100%)</li><li>Red/Green/Blue modification (-100% to
100%)</li><li>Brightness (-100% to 100%)</li><li>Contrast (-100% to
100%)</li><li>Gamma Correction (0.10 to 10)</li></ul><p>This also works for all
combinations of the above modifications. This enhancement is already visible in
the Edit Views, but its main goal is to increase Print and PDF export quality
(and other exports that can keep Vector Data) when working with Vector Graphic
content accordingly. Here is an example from the Edit Views (Left: AOO 4.0.1,
Right: AOO 4.1). It
's the same SVG graphic modified to Grayscale:</p><p><a
href="attachments/31822142/40009831.png"><img class="confluence-embedded-image"
alt="image" src="attachments/31822142/40009831.png"
data-image-src="attachments/31822142/40009831.png"></img></a></p><h3
id="AOO4.1ReleaseNotes-KeeporiginalGraphicDatawheneverpossible">Keep original
Graphic Data when ever possible</h3><p>Previous versions of AOO eventually
modified the type of inserted Graphic Data, for example inserted JPEG files
were in some scenarios saved as PNG in the created ODF files. These scenarios
were different for the different AOO Applications since it was not handled the
same internally. This has been improved so that AOO 4.1 handles this equal in
all Applications and tries to always keep your inserted original Graphic Data
when possible. This gives advantages for the file size of the created ODF
Files, but also for the Image quality. There were scenarios in which JPEG files
were recoded to JPEG which will in no case i
mprove the image quality but has the potential to lower it.</p><p>This works
for BMP, JPEG, PNG and GIF for pixel-oriented graphics. It is also in place for
Vector-based Graphics like SVG and Metafiles.</p><h3 id="AOO4.1ReleaseNotes-
+ClipboardenhancementsforGraphicContent">Clipboard enhancements for Graphic
Content</h3><p>The Clipboard support for exchange of PNG is further improved,
so that Pixel-based Graphic modification cycles (e.g. copying graphic content
to an external Application, modifying it and copying it back to AOO 4.1) will
work better with more external Image Editors of your choice. Broader support
for PNG means that transparency in Pixel-based graphics will be preserved in
more places. Did you know that you can copy any Graphic Object from AOO 4.1 to
the clipboard and paste it to any external Image editor of your choice to
modify them and copy them back?</p><p>Â </p><h3
id="AOO4.1ReleaseNotes-OtherImprovements/Enhancements">Other
Improvements/Enhancements</h3><h4
id="AOO4.1ReleaseNotes-SeamonkeyreplacedbyNSS("NetworkSecurityServices")">Seamonkey
replaced by NSS ("Network Security Services")</h4><p>Outdated code
from Mozilla that was used to include cryptography services and a
ddress book access has been replaced with the more modern and more secure NSS
libraries. This greatly simplifies the build process and source code
maintenance and is transparent to end users in general.</p><p>End users are
affected only in the following ways:</p><ul><li>Under Windows XP, trying to add
the Windows Address Book as an OpenOffice database; this has always been the
case on any newer Windows versions (Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows
8).</li></ul><ul><li>Thunderbird users will not see direct Thunderbird address
book support in OpenOffice's address book wizard, but the OpenOffice support
for CSV can replace it for now. Users can use Thunderbird's
Tools->Export->AsCsv functionality to get their address book as comma
separated text.</li></ul><ul><li>Authenticated LDAP access is now unsupported
(the non-authenticated access was already unsupported).</li></ul><h2
id="AOO4.1ReleaseNotes-Removed/RetiredFeatures">Removed/Retired
Features</h2><ul><li>Support for Macintos
h OSX 10.6 and below has been dropped. Please see the <a
href="http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/source/sys_reqs_aoo41.html";
class="external-link" rel="nofollow">System Requirements</a>.</li></ul><h2
id="AOO4.1ReleaseNotes-BugFixes">Bug Fixes</h2><p><a
href="https://issues.apache.org/ooo/buglist.cgi?cmdtype=dorem&remaction=run&namedcmd=AOO_410_Resolved";
class="external-link" rel="nofollow">See the list in Bugzilla</a>.</p><h2
id="AOO4.1ReleaseNotes-AdditionalLanguageSupport">Additional Language
Support</h2><h3
id="AOO4.1ReleaseNotes-NewtranslationsavailableinApacheOpenOffice4.1include:">New
translations available in Apache OpenOffice 4.1 include:</h3><div
class="table-wrap"><table class="confluenceTable"><tbody><tr><td
style="text-align: center;" class="confluenceTd"><p>Bulgarian (bg)</p></td><td
colspan="1" style="text-align: center;" class="confluenceTd">Danish
(da)</td><td colspan="1" style="text-align: center;"
class="confluenceTd">Hebrew (he)</td></tr><tr><td style="te
xt-align: center;" class="confluenceTd"><p>Hindi (hi)</p></td><td colspan="1"
style="text-align: center;" class="confluenceTd">Kazakh (kk)</td><td
colspan="1" style="text-align: center;" class="confluenceTd">Norwegian Bokmal
(nb)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" style="text-align: center;"
class="confluenceTd">Thai (th)</td><td colspan="1" style="text-align: center;"
class="confluenceTd">Â </td><td colspan="1" style="text-align: center;"
class="confluenceTd">Â </td></tr></tbody></table></div><h3
id="AOO4.1ReleaseNotes-UpdatedtranslationsavailableinApacheOpenOffice4.1include:">Updated
translations available in Apache OpenOffice 4.1 include:</h3><div
class="table-wrap"><table class="confluenceTable"><tbody><tr><td
class="confluenceTd"><p style="text-align: center;">Basque (eu)</p></td><td
class="confluenceTd"><p style="text-align: center;">Dutch (nl)</p></td><td
style="text-align: center;" class="confluenceTd">German (de)</td></tr><tr><td
colspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><span>Â </s
pan>Lithuanian (lt)</td><td colspan="1"
class="confluenceTd"><span><span>Portuguese (pt)</span></span></td><td colspan="
+1" class="confluenceTd">Serbian (sr)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1"
class="confluenceTd">Spanish (es)</td><td colspan="1"
class="confluenceTd">Turkish (tr)</td><td colspan="1" class="confluenceTd">Â
</td></tr></tbody></table></div><p><strong>For a complete list of available
languages and language packs see:</strong></p><p><a class="external-link"
href="http://www.openoffice.org/download/other.html";
rel="nofollow">http://www.openoffice.org/download/other.html</a></p><h3
id="AOO4.1ReleaseNotes-NewandUpdatedDictionaries">New and Updated
Dictionaries</h3><h4 id="AOO4.1ReleaseNotes-NewDictionaries">New
Dictionaries</h4><div class="table-wrap"><table
class="confluenceTable"><tbody><tr><td class="confluenceTd">Lithuanian
(lt)</td><td colspan="1" class="confluenceTd">Portuguese
(pt-PT)</td></tr></tbody></table></div><h4
id="AOO4.1ReleaseNotes-UpdatedDictionaries">Updated Dictionaries</h4><div
class="table-wrap"><table class="confluenceTable"><tbody><tr><td
class="confluenceTd">English (en)
see note</td><td colspan="1" class="confluenceTd">German (de)</td><td
colspan="1" class="confluenceTd">Gaelic
(gd)</td></tr></tbody></table></div><p><strong>Note: The extension contains
multiple variants. Only the en-GB dictionary has been updated.</strong></p><h2
id="AOO4.1ReleaseNotes-KnownIssues">Known Issues</h2><ul><li>Apache OpenOffice
4.1.0 will be flagged by the new Gatekeeper facility in Mac OS X Mountain Lion
and Maverick. This is a new feature to help guard against malware on Mac
systems. There is a procedure laid out at the following link to allow
applications not installed from the Mac App store to run. See the article at
Mac support at <a href="http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5290";
class="external-link"
rel="nofollow">http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5290</a>.</li></ul><ul><li>Apache
OpenOffice 4.1.0 supports Java 7, which is the recommended configuration; but
(especially on 64-bit Windows) you might receive warnings about the Java
version being defective. In that case, dow
nload and install the <a
href="http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/B/C/5BC5DBB3-652D-4DCE-B14A-475AB85EEF6E/vcredist_x86.exe";
class="external-link" rel="nofollow">Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable
Package</a>. If you still have problems, install <a
href="http://www.java.com/java6download/"; class="external-link"
rel="nofollow">the most current JRE 6 version</a>. Make sure you get the file
"Windows x86 Offline (32-bit)". Then configure OpenOffice to use it
at "Tools - Options - OpenOffice - Java". See <a
href="http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=54974";
class="external-link" rel="nofollow">this forum topic</a> for more
information.</li><li>Dictionaries for Spell Check are temporarily only included
in complete localized Installers and not in Language packs (<a
href="https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124423";
class="external-link" rel="nofollow">Issue 124423</a>). They can be installed
as extensions using Tools->
Extension Manager.<br /><br /></li></ul><h2
id="AOO4.1ReleaseNotes-StayinformedaboutApacheOpenOffice">Stay informed about
Apache OpenOffice</h2><p>You are encouraged to subscribe to the Apache
OpenOffice announcement mailing list to receive important notifications such as
product updates and security patches. To subscribe you can send an email to: <a
href="mailto:[email protected]"; class="external-link"
rel="nofollow">[email protected]</a>.</p><p>You can also
follow the project on <a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/apacheoo";
class="external-link" rel="nofollow">Twitter</a>, <a
href="http://www.facebook.com/ApacheOO"; class="external-link"
rel="nofollow">Facebook</a> and <a
href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/114598373874764163668/posts";
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