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Date: Wed Sep 30 22:06:44 2015
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<li><a href='#AOO4.1ReleaseNotes-KnownIssues'>Known Issues</a></li>
<li><a href='#AOO4.1ReleaseNotes-StayinformedaboutApacheOpenOffice'>Stay
informed about Apache OpenOffice</a></li>
</ul>
-</div></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="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><p> </p><p>Please see the <a
href="http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/source/sys_reqs_aoo41.html";
class="external-link" rel="nofollow">System Requirements for Apache OpenOffice
4.1</a>.</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
functionality (part of OSBA project)</li><li>Import of author initials (part of
OSBA project plus needed fix)</li><li>Imp
ort 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 dialo
g 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 and navigate from one Input Field to the other. Also the field
shadings are visible for Input Fields in read-only t
ext 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><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 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'
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">Load/Import of 3D Charts
improved</h3><p>There was a performance problem when Documents with big 3D
charts were Loa
ded (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 Pixel-Based
variant. This makes the advantages of Vector Graphics vanish and often results
in bad output quality for P
rint 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 its main goal is to increase Print and PDF export quality
(and other exports that can keep Vector Data) when workin
g 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 advantages for the file size of the created ODF
Files, but also for the Image quality. There were scenarios in which JP
EG 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/Enha
ncements">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, adding the Windows Address Book
as an OpenOffice database is no longer supported; 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->A
sCsv 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.x and below has been
dropped. OpenOffice now requires Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) or higher. 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="http://s.apache.org/AOO410-solved"; 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 clas
s="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">Norwegian Bokmal (nb)</td><td colspan="1"
style="text-align: center;" class="confluenceTd">Thai
(th)</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></t
r><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 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, 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 use is
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.</li><li>For the MacOSX version
only, any extensions that are written in C++ will no longer work and be marked
as disabled in the AOO extensions manager. This is because of the change of AOO
from a 32-bit to a 64-bit application on MacOSX. Please report the problem to
the developer of the extension.</li><li>For MacOSX Version only: Currently
there is no support for AudioVisual in version 4.1.0. Symptoms include: you
can't play audio/video embedded in existing documents; you can't insert
audio/video objects in documents. For technical details <span
class="confluence-link">see <a
href="https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124800";
class="external-link" rel="nofollow">bug 124800</a> </span>in bugzilla. <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";
class="external-link" rel="nofollow">Google+</a>.</p><p>Â </p>
+</div></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="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><p> </p><p>Please see the <a
href="http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/source/sys_reqs_aoo41.html";
class="external-link" rel="nofollow">System Requirements for Apache OpenOffice
4.1</a>.</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
functionality (part of OSBA project)</li><li>Import of author initials (part of
OSBA project plus needed fix)</li><li>Imp
ort 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 dialo
g 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 and navigate from one Input Field to the other. Also the field
shadings are visible for Input Fields in read-only t
ext 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><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 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'
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">Load/Import of 3D Charts
improved</h3><p>There was a performance problem when Documents with big 3D
charts were Loa
ded (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 Pixel-Based
variant. This makes the advantages of Vector Graphics vanish and often results
in bad output quality for P
rint 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 its main goal is to increase Print and PDF export quality
(and other exports that can keep Vector Data) when workin
g 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 advantages for the file size of the created ODF
Files, but also for the Image quality. There were scenarios in which JP
EG 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/Enha
ncements">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. <b>Addendum (2015-09-30)</b>: Please see
information on <a
href="https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Certificate_Detection";>Certificate
Detection</a> so that using digital signatures works correctly for
you.</p><p>End users are affected only in the following ways:</p><ul><li>Under
Windows XP, adding the Windows Address Book as an OpenOffice database is no
longer supported; 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 Macintosh OSX 10.6.x and below has been
dropped. OpenOffice now requires Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) or higher. 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="http://s.apache.org/AOO410-solved"; class="external-link"
rel="nofollow">See the list in Bugzilla</a>.</p><h2
id="AOO4.1ReleaseNotes-AdditionalLanguageSupport">Additiona
l 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="text-align: center;"
class="confluenceTd"><p>Hindi (hi)</p></td><td colspan="1" style="text-align:
center;" class="confluenceTd">Norwegian Bokmal (nb)</td><td colspan="1"
style="text-align: center;" class="confluenceTd">Thai
(th)</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="conflue
nceTd"><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 Dictionarie
s</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, 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 use is
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.</li><li>For the MacOSX version
only, any extensions that are written in C++ will no longer work and be marked
as disabled in the AOO extensions manager. This is because of the change of AOO
from a 32-bit to a 64-bit application on MacOSX. Please report the problem to
the developer of the extension.</li><li>For MacOSX Version only: Currently
there is no support for AudioVisual in version 4.1.0. Symptoms include: you
can't play audio/video embedded in existing documents; you can't insert
audio/video objects in documents. For technical details <span
class="confluence-link">see <a href="https:/
/issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124800" class="external-link"
rel="nofollow">bug 124800</a> </span>in bugzilla. <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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