User: jpmcc Date: 2009-07-01 23:00:25+0000 Modified: marketing/www/planet/atom.xml marketing/www/planet/index.html marketing/www/planet/opml.xml marketing/www/planet/rss10.xml marketing/www/planet/rss20.xml
Log: Planet run at Thu Jul 2 00:00:13 BST 2009 File Changes: Directory: /marketing/www/planet/ ================================= File [changed]: atom.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/atom.xml?r1=1.2059&r2=1.2060 Delta lines: +71 -52 --------------------- --- atom.xml 2009-07-01 17:00:24+0000 1.2059 +++ atom.xml 2009-07-01 23:00:19+0000 1.2060 @@ -5,10 +5,73 @@ <link rel="self" href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/atom.xml"/> <link href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/"/> <id>http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/atom.xml</id> - <updated>2009-07-01T17:00:30+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-07-01T23:00:24+00:00</updated> <generator uri="http://www.planetplanet.org/";>Planet/2.0 +http://www.planetplanet.org</generator> <entry xml:lang="en"> + <title type="html">Numbers show trends and make news stories</title> + <link href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~3/HZ5KEGLE_ok/"/> + <id>http://www.italovignoli.org/?p=522</id> + <updated>2009-07-01T22:38:04+00:00</updated> + <content type="html"><p></p><blockquote cite="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DougHaslam/~3/M4RO-HgTu6Y/"> +<p>Growing figures show trends. More Twitter followers means more good followers (and more bad followers). More business cards collected at a seminar means more good connections (and more bad connections).</p> +<p>More OpenOffice.org downloads means more OOo users (and more wasted downloads).</p> +<p>We at Associazione PLIO have been very punctual in announcing each and every download milestone reached by the Italian version of the suite since late 2006. In three years, the download rate has increased 40 times.</p> +<p>At the end of 2006 we were at 800.000 downloads per year, now we are at an average of 680.000 downloads per month (for those used to analysts numbers, the CAGR has been an astounding 240%).</p> +<p>OpenOffice.org users in Italy have been growing steadily. Of course, wasted downloads have been growing steadily as well.</p> +<p>Growing figures make news stories. Office suites are personal productivity tools, and personal productivity tools are commodities.</p> +<p>Commodities are measured by numbers, not by features (although OOo has some interesting features, such as the Hybrid PDF, a format which has not even scratched the surface of the market).</p> +<p>Users have a clear understanding of office suites, and most of them ask for improvements in key areas of personal productivity.</p> +<p>Users are interested in a growing community, because it means a larger ecosystem, more volunteers, more experts, more extensions, more and better resources, and so on.</p> +<p>Users do understand numbers, and are perfectly able to &#8220;read&#8221; between the lines of our announcements.</p> +<p>Of course, in the future they will be interested in a more sophisticated user interface and (maybe) in real time collaboration features. They know that OpenOffice.org will be there when they will need it.</p> +</blockquote> +<p><!-- +google_ad_client = "pub-7842513683997181"; +/* 468x60, created 6/28/09 */ +google_ad_slot = "7035492401"; +google_ad_width = 468; +google_ad_height = 60; +//--> +</p> +<p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/3ksASZsy7Njd6Q7y-PHopItb9ZY/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/3ksASZsy7Njd6Q7y-PHopItb9ZY/0/di" border="0" ismap="true" /></a><br /> +<a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/3ksASZsy7Njd6Q7y-PHopItb9ZY/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/3ksASZsy7Njd6Q7y-PHopItb9ZY/1/di" border="0" ismap="true" /></a></p><div class="feedflare"> +<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=HZ5KEGLE_ok:USjoCPW9PG0:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=HZ5KEGLE_ok:USjoCPW9PG0:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=HZ5KEGLE_ok:USjoCPW9PG0:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?i=HZ5KEGLE_ok:USjoCPW9PG0:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /></a> +</div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~4/HZ5KEGLE_ok" height="1" width="1" /></content> + <author> + <name>Italo Vignoli</name> + <uri>http://www.italovignoli.org</uri> + </author> + <source> + <title type="html">Going Open</title> + <subtitle type="html">marketing of open source software</subtitle> + <link rel="self" href="http://www.italovignoli.org/?feed=rss2"/> + <id>http://www.italovignoli.org/?feed=rss2</id> + <updated>2009-07-01T23:00:21+00:00</updated> + </source> + </entry> + + <entry xml:lang="en"> + <title type="html">OOo gets OCS</title> + <link href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2009/07/01/ooo-gets-ocs/"/> + <id>http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=727</id> + <updated>2009-07-01T20:47:35+00:00</updated> + <content type="html"><p>We&#8217;ll be using the <a href="http://pkp.sfu.ca/ocs/">OCS software</a> to manage the OpenOffice.org Annual Conference this year (and any other OpenOffice.org Conferences that want to use it). If you want a sneak preview of the site, look <a href="http://conference.services.openoffice.org/">here</a> <img src="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p> +<p>Grateful thanks to the <a href="http://pkp.sfu.ca/about">Public Knowledge Project</a> for a great piece of open-source software.</p></content> + <author> + <name>John McCreesh</name> + <uri>http://www.mealldubh.org</uri> + </author> + <source> + <title type="html">Meall Dubh » OpenOffice.org</title> + <subtitle type="html">a view from a dark hill</subtitle> + <link rel="self" href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed/"/> + <id>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed/</id> + <updated>2009-07-01T23:00:15+00:00</updated> + </source> + </entry> + + <entry xml:lang="en"> <title type="html">Managerâs choice: spend some time or spend money</title> <link href="http://cdriga.kfacts.com/open-source-world/managers-choice-spend-some-time-or-spend-money/2009/07/01/"/> <id>http://cdriga.kfacts.com/open-source-world/managers-choice-spend-some-time-or-spend-money/2009/07/01/</id> @@ -58,7 +121,7 @@ <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader</title> <link rel="self" href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/> <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id> - <updated>2009-07-01T17:00:16+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-07-01T23:00:19+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -121,7 +184,7 @@ <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader</title> <link rel="self" href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/> <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id> - <updated>2009-07-01T17:00:16+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-07-01T23:00:19+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -145,7 +208,7 @@ <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader</title> <link rel="self" href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/> <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id> - <updated>2009-07-01T17:00:16+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-07-01T23:00:19+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -271,7 +334,7 @@ <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader</title> <link rel="self" href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/> <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id> - <updated>2009-07-01T17:00:16+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-07-01T23:00:19+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -291,7 +354,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">a view from a dark hill</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed/"/> <id>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed/</id> - <updated>2009-06-28T11:00:15+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-07-01T23:00:15+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -375,7 +438,7 @@ <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader</title> <link rel="self" href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/> <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id> - <updated>2009-07-01T17:00:16+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-07-01T23:00:19+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -399,7 +462,7 @@ <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader</title> <link rel="self" href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/> <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id> - <updated>2009-07-01T17:00:16+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-07-01T23:00:19+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -451,48 +514,4 @@ </source> </entry> - <entry> - <title type="html">CORRECTION: Trips: China, Japan</title> - <link href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2009/05/correction-trips-china-japan.html"/> - <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-3404809581266549923</id> - <updated>2009-06-05T21:48:55+00:00</updated> - <content type="html">A mistaken belief led to this <a href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2009/05/trips-china-japan.html">post</a> of mine a short while ago:<br /><br />&#x201c;23 June: I fly to Tokyo via Beijing to meet with IPA representatives to discuss contributing to OpenOffice.org. Japan has long been a promise and a problem. Good-Day, Inc., of Osaka has contributed substntially for almost as long as OOo has been around. Indeed, much of the localization effort (to Japanese) is due to their team, and I thank Maeda-san and his company, along with Nakata Maho, for their unstintinting contributions to developing the code into a qualified appication suitable for enterprise use.&#x201d;<br /><br />In fact, as was very kindly pointed out to me, this is not the case: Good-Day, though a friend, has not in fact contributed in the way I wrongly described. As was pointed out to me:<br /><br />&#x201c;Localization efforts are not due to Good-Day, but tremendous contribution by<br />ja individuals and SUN K.K., who are not Good-Day's employee. Especially<br />khirano's coordination has been most noted one. Really surprising, that<br />such a individuals can do great coordination. Recently, Kubota-san, is taking<br />over his position, and now he's been doing very well. As far as I know,<br />no substantial contributions from Good-day, at least of localization.&#x201d;<br /><br />My regrets in posting such an error, and my apologies to the all concerned, especially to my friend Kazunari HIrano (Khirano), who has been such a strong contributor to the project and promoter of it. And I welcome Kubota-san!<br /><br />Alas, errors like the one I made do occur, and I simply ask that when they do that they be pointed out to me. I&#x2019;ll return the favour :-)<br /><br />Thanks to those making OOo what it is and even better.<br /><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4649039904546083564-3404809581266549923?l=ooo-speak.blogspot.com" /></div></content> - <author> - <name>oulipo</name> - <email>[email protected]</email> - <uri>http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/</uri> - </author> - <source> - <title type="html">ooo-speak</title> - <subtitle type="html">Mostly on OpenOffice.org, FOSS, and everything else.</subtitle> - <link rel="self" href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/> - <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564</id> - <updated>2009-06-29T05:00:17+00:00</updated> - </source> - </entry> - - <entry> - <title type="html">New print UI</title> - <link href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/new_print_ui"/> - <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/d0f79a90819896d8</id> - <updated>2009-06-04T16:59:25+00:00</updated> - <content type="html"><p><a title="Earlier Entry" href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/one_step_forward_the_next">As detailed before</a> OpenOffice.org 3.2 should have a new print UI. Work on this is currently progressing nicely, the API changes are mostly in, even if not everything does work yet. The most movement at the moment is in the UI specification (aka &quot;What is the dialog going to look like?&quot;). Here are some current snapshots from the platform independent dialog:</p> - <p>First the page for general job settings:<br /></p> - <p><img align="middle" src="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/resource/gsl/job.png" /><br /> </p> - <p>And then a useful new feature called N-Up. You know that from other applications or from you printing system (if you happen to be a Unix or Mac user), however up to now there was no canonical way to do this in OpenOffice.org. Writer has its &quot;Page Preview&quot; to achieve a similar effect, Impress has a special handout mode to put multiple handout slides on one page, but we were lacking a simple, application independent way to achieve this nice paper saving effect.<br /></p> - <p><img align="middle" src="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/resource/gsl/nup.png" alt="N-Up Page" /></p> - <p>Please keep in mind that this is just a snapshot of current work, the UI is not finalized. If you are interested in helping with UI issues, please discuss your ideas on the <a href="mailto:[email protected]" title="User experience mailing list">User Experience mailing lis</a><a href="mailto:[email protected]" title="User experience mailing list">t</a>. One of the open issues is how to use the new print UI with the native Mac print dialog, in which some rather infelicitous limitations exist: first you can add options to change your print result in the dialog, but those option cannot influence the number of printed pages (which can be worked around by canceling the dialog and starting the print anew). And second if you want to run on MacOSX 10.4, too, and add print options, then you cannot get a preview (even if you ask nicely by setting explicitly the &quot;I want a preview&quot; flag). So at the moment we end up with the unusual result, that our new general dialog has a preview while the Mac native one does not. If anyone knows a solution to this problem (that is different from: have a separate 10.5 build, which we do not really want), please tell.</p> - <p>Even if there are still some issues to solve and the UI to be finalized: I think we're well on the way to have a new improved print interface for OpenOffice.org 3.2. Let me thank all the people making this possible: Mathias Bauer (Sfx), Andre Fischer (Impress), Thomas Lange (Writer), Christian Lippka (Impress), Niklas Nebel (Calc), Christoph Noack (User Experience). Thanks for your hard work; I know your schedules are tight even without this.<br /></p></content> - <author> - <name>PhilippL</name> - <uri></uri> - </author> - <source> - <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader</title> - <link rel="self" href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/> - <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id> - <updated>2009-07-01T17:00:16+00:00</updated> - </source> - </entry> - </feed> File [changed]: index.html Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/index.html?r1=1.2066&r2=1.2067 Delta lines: +54 -37 --------------------- --- index.html 2009-07-01 17:00:24+0000 1.2066 +++ index.html 2009-07-01 23:00:19+0000 1.2067 @@ -36,10 +36,63 @@ <a href="rss20.xml"><img src="rss2.gif" alt="Link to RSS 2 feed" /></a> </div> -<p><em>Bloggings on marketing topics by project members - see <a href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: July 01, 2009 05:00 PM GMT</em></p> +<p><em>Bloggings on marketing topics by project members - see <a href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: July 01, 2009 11:00 PM GMT</em></p> <h2>July 01, 2009</h2> <h3> +<a href="http://www.italovignoli.org"; title="Going Open"> +Italo Vignoli</a> : +<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~3/HZ5KEGLE_ok/";> +Numbers show trends and make news stories</a> +</h3> +<p> +<p></p><blockquote cite="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DougHaslam/~3/M4RO-HgTu6Y/";> +<p>Growing figures show trends. More Twitter followers means more good followers (and more bad followers). More business cards collected at a seminar means more good connections (and more bad connections).</p> +<p>More OpenOffice.org downloads means more OOo users (and more wasted downloads).</p> +<p>We at Associazione PLIO have been very punctual in announcing each and every download milestone reached by the Italian version of the suite since late 2006. In three years, the download rate has increased 40 times.</p> +<p>At the end of 2006 we were at 800.000 downloads per year, now we are at an average of 680.000 downloads per month (for those used to analysts numbers, the CAGR has been an astounding 240%).</p> +<p>OpenOffice.org users in Italy have been growing steadily. Of course, wasted downloads have been growing steadily as well.</p> +<p>Growing figures make news stories. Office suites are personal productivity tools, and personal productivity tools are commodities.</p> +<p>Commodities are measured by numbers, not by features (although OOo has some interesting features, such as the Hybrid PDF, a format which has not even scratched the surface of the market).</p> +<p>Users have a clear understanding of office suites, and most of them ask for improvements in key areas of personal productivity.</p> +<p>Users are interested in a growing community, because it means a larger ecosystem, more volunteers, more experts, more extensions, more and better resources, and so on.</p> +<p>Users do understand numbers, and are perfectly able to “read” between the lines of our announcements.</p> +<p>Of course, in the future they will be interested in a more sophisticated user interface and (maybe) in real time collaboration features. They know that OpenOffice.org will be there when they will need it.</p> +</blockquote> +<p><!-- +google_ad_client = "pub-7842513683997181"; +/* 468x60, created 6/28/09 */ +google_ad_slot = "7035492401"; +google_ad_width = 468; +google_ad_height = 60; +//--> +</p> +<p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/3ksASZsy7Njd6Q7y-PHopItb9ZY/0/da";><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/3ksASZsy7Njd6Q7y-PHopItb9ZY/0/di"; border="0" ismap="true" /></a><br /> +<a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/3ksASZsy7Njd6Q7y-PHopItb9ZY/1/da";><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/3ksASZsy7Njd6Q7y-PHopItb9ZY/1/di"; border="0" ismap="true" /></a></p><div class="feedflare"> +<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=HZ5KEGLE_ok:USjoCPW9PG0:yIl2AUoC8zA";><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA"; border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=HZ5KEGLE_ok:USjoCPW9PG0:7Q72WNTAKBA";><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?d=7Q72WNTAKBA"; border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=HZ5KEGLE_ok:USjoCPW9PG0:V_sGLiPBpWU";><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?i=HZ5KEGLE_ok:USjoCPW9PG0:V_sGLiPBpWU"; border="0" /></a> +</div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~4/HZ5KEGLE_ok"; height="1" width="1" /></p> +<p> +<em><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~3/HZ5KEGLE_ok/";>by italovignoli at July 01, 2009 10:38 PM GMT</a></em> +</p> +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> +<h3> +<a href="http://www.mealldubh.org"; title="Meall Dubh » OpenOffice.org"> +John McCreesh</a> : +<a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2009/07/01/ooo-gets-ocs/";> +OOo gets OCS</a> +</h3> +<p> +<p>We’ll be using the <a href="http://pkp.sfu.ca/ocs/";>OCS software</a> to manage the OpenOffice.org Annual Conference this year (and any other OpenOffice.org Conferences that want to use it). If you want a sneak preview of the site, look <a href="http://conference.services.openoffice.org/";>here</a> <img src="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif"; alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p> +<p>Grateful thanks to the <a href="http://pkp.sfu.ca/about";>Public Knowledge Project</a> for a great piece of open-source software.</p></p> +<p> +<em><a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2009/07/01/ooo-gets-ocs/";>by John at July 01, 2009 08:47 PM GMT</a></em> +</p> +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> +<h3> <a href="http://cdriga.kfacts.com"; title="cdriga's blog on IT &amp; Open Source World » OpenOffice.org"> Christian Driga</a> : <a href="http://cdriga.kfacts.com/open-source-world/managers-choice-spend-some-time-or-spend-money/2009/07/01/";> @@ -403,42 +456,6 @@ <br /> <hr /> <br /> -<h2>June 05, 2009</h2> -<h3> -<a href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/"; title="ooo-speak"> -Louis Suarez-Potts</a> : -<a href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2009/05/correction-trips-china-japan.html";> -CORRECTION: Trips: China, Japan</a> -</h3> -<p> -A mistaken belief led to this <a href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2009/05/trips-china-japan.html";>post</a> of mine a short while ago:<br /><br />“23 June: I fly to Tokyo via Beijing to meet with IPA representatives to discuss contributing to OpenOffice.org. Japan has long been a promise and a problem. Good-Day, Inc., of Osaka has contributed substntially for almost as long as OOo has been around. Indeed, much of the localization effort (to Japanese) is due to their team, and I thank Maeda-san and his company, along with Nakata Maho, for their unstintinting contributions to developing the code into a qualified appication suitable for enterprise use.”<br /><br />In fact, as was very kindly pointed out to me, this is not the case: Good-Day, though a friend, has not in fact contributed in the way I wrongly described. As was pointed out to me:<br /><br />“Localization efforts are not due to Good-Day, but tremendous contribution by<br />ja individuals and SUN K.K., who are not Good-Day's employee. Especially<br />khirano's coordination has been most noted one. Really surprising, that<br />such a individuals can do great coordination. Recently, Kubota-san, is taking<br />over his position, and now he's been doing very well. As far as I know,<br />no substantial contributions from Good-day, at least of localization.”<br /><br />My regrets in posting such an error, and my apologies to the all concerned, especially to my friend Kazunari HIrano (Khirano), who has been such a strong contributor to the project and promoter of it. And I welcome Kubota-san!<br /><br />Alas, errors like the one I made do occur, and I simply ask that when they do that they be pointed out to me. I’ll return the favour :-)<br /><br />Thanks to those making OOo what it is and even better.<br /><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4649039904546083564-3404809581266549923?l=ooo-speak.blogspot.com"; /></div></p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2009/05/correction-trips-china-japan.html";>by oulipo ([email protected]) at June 05, 2009 09:48 PM BST</a></em> -</p> -<br /> -<hr /> -<br /> -<h2>June 04, 2009</h2> -<h3> -<a href="" title="jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader"> -GullFOSS</a> : -<a href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/new_print_ui";> -New print UI</a> -</h3> -<p> -<p><a title="Earlier Entry" href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/one_step_forward_the_next";>As detailed before</a> OpenOffice.org 3.2 should have a new print UI. Work on this is currently progressing nicely, the API changes are mostly in, even if not everything does work yet. The most movement at the moment is in the UI specification (aka "What is the dialog going to look like?"). Here are some current snapshots from the platform independent dialog:</p> - <p>First the page for general job settings:<br /></p> - <p><img align="middle" src="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/resource/gsl/job.png"; /><br /> </p> - <p>And then a useful new feature called N-Up. You know that from other applications or from you printing system (if you happen to be a Unix or Mac user), however up to now there was no canonical way to do this in OpenOffice.org. Writer has its "Page Preview" to achieve a similar effect, Impress has a special handout mode to put multiple handout slides on one page, but we were lacking a simple, application independent way to achieve this nice paper saving effect.<br /></p> - <p><img align="middle" src="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/resource/gsl/nup.png"; alt="N-Up Page" /></p> - <p>Please keep in mind that this is just a snapshot of current work, the UI is not finalized. If you are interested in helping with UI issues, please discuss your ideas on the <a href="mailto:[email protected]"; title="User experience mailing list">User Experience mailing lis</a><a href="mailto:[email protected]"; title="User experience mailing list">t</a>. One of the open issues is how to use the new print UI with the native Mac print dialog, in which some rather infelicitous limitations exist: first you can add options to change your print result in the dialog, but those option cannot influence the number of printed pages (which can be worked around by canceling the dialog and starting the print anew). And second if you want to run on MacOSX 10.4, too, and add print options, then you cannot get a preview (even if you ask nicely by setting explicitly the "I want a preview" flag). So at the moment we end up with the unusual result, that our new general dialog has a preview while the Mac native one does not. If anyone knows a solution to this problem (that is different from: have a separate 10.5 build, which we do not really want), please tell.</p> - <p>Even if there are still some issues to solve and the UI to be finalized: I think we're well on the way to have a new improved print interface for OpenOffice.org 3.2. Let me thank all the people making this possible: Mathias Bauer (Sfx), Andre Fischer (Impress), Thomas Lange (Writer), Christian Lippka (Impress), Niklas Nebel (Calc), Christoph Noack (User Experience). Thanks for your hard work; I know your schedules are tight even without this.<br /></p></p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/new_print_ui";>by PhilippL at June 04, 2009 04:59 PM GMT</a></em> -</p> -<br /> -<hr /> -<br /> <a id="disclaimer" name="disclaimer"></a> <p><em>Disclaimer: all views expressed on this page are those of the individual contributors, and may not reflect the views of the File [changed]: opml.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/opml.xml?r1=1.2059&r2=1.2060 Delta lines: +1 -1 ------------------- --- opml.xml 2009-07-01 17:00:25+0000 1.2059 +++ opml.xml 2009-07-01 23:00:20+0000 1.2060 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <opml version="1.1"> <head> <title>Marketing Planet</title> - <dateModified>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:00:30 +0000</dateModified> + <dateModified>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:00:25 +0000</dateModified> <ownerName>Marketing Project</ownerName> <ownerEmail>[email protected]</ownerEmail> </head> File [changed]: rss10.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/rss10.xml?r1=1.780&r2=1.781 Delta lines: +39 -22 --------------------- --- rss10.xml 2009-07-01 11:00:17+0000 1.780 +++ rss10.xml 2009-07-01 23:00:20+0000 1.781 @@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ <items> <rdf:Seq> + <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.italovignoli.org/?p=522"; /> + <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=727"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://cdriga.kfacts.com/open-source-world/managers-choice-spend-some-time-or-spend-money/2009/07/01/"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/7dcdb8aa7b2670d7" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/3a435e15653c34ae" /> @@ -31,12 +33,47 @@ <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/1a067cc1eea6155a" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=1161"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/06/07/its-official-ms-office-looks-like-the-gimp/"; /> - <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-3404809581266549923" /> - <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/d0f79a90819896d8" /> </rdf:Seq> </items> </channel> +<item rdf:about="http://www.italovignoli.org/?p=522";> + <title>Italo Vignoli: Numbers show trends and make news stories</title> + <link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~3/HZ5KEGLE_ok/</link> + <content:encoded><p></p><blockquote cite="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DougHaslam/~3/M4RO-HgTu6Y/"> +<p>Growing figures show trends. More Twitter followers means more good followers (and more bad followers). More business cards collected at a seminar means more good connections (and more bad connections).</p> +<p>More OpenOffice.org downloads means more OOo users (and more wasted downloads).</p> +<p>We at Associazione PLIO have been very punctual in announcing each and every download milestone reached by the Italian version of the suite since late 2006. In three years, the download rate has increased 40 times.</p> +<p>At the end of 2006 we were at 800.000 downloads per year, now we are at an average of 680.000 downloads per month (for those used to analysts numbers, the CAGR has been an astounding 240%).</p> +<p>OpenOffice.org users in Italy have been growing steadily. Of course, wasted downloads have been growing steadily as well.</p> +<p>Growing figures make news stories. Office suites are personal productivity tools, and personal productivity tools are commodities.</p> +<p>Commodities are measured by numbers, not by features (although OOo has some interesting features, such as the Hybrid PDF, a format which has not even scratched the surface of the market).</p> +<p>Users have a clear understanding of office suites, and most of them ask for improvements in key areas of personal productivity.</p> +<p>Users are interested in a growing community, because it means a larger ecosystem, more volunteers, more experts, more extensions, more and better resources, and so on.</p> +<p>Users do understand numbers, and are perfectly able to &#8220;read&#8221; between the lines of our announcements.</p> +<p>Of course, in the future they will be interested in a more sophisticated user interface and (maybe) in real time collaboration features. They know that OpenOffice.org will be there when they will need it.</p> +</blockquote> +<p><!-- +google_ad_client = "pub-7842513683997181"; +/* 468x60, created 6/28/09 */ +google_ad_slot = "7035492401"; +google_ad_width = 468; +google_ad_height = 60; +//--> +</p> +<p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/3ksASZsy7Njd6Q7y-PHopItb9ZY/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/3ksASZsy7Njd6Q7y-PHopItb9ZY/0/di" border="0" ismap="true" /></a><br /> +<a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/3ksASZsy7Njd6Q7y-PHopItb9ZY/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/3ksASZsy7Njd6Q7y-PHopItb9ZY/1/di" border="0" ismap="true" /></a></p><div class="feedflare"> +<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=HZ5KEGLE_ok:USjoCPW9PG0:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=HZ5KEGLE_ok:USjoCPW9PG0:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=HZ5KEGLE_ok:USjoCPW9PG0:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?i=HZ5KEGLE_ok:USjoCPW9PG0:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /></a> +</div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~4/HZ5KEGLE_ok" height="1" width="1" /></content:encoded> + <dc:date>2009-07-01T22:38:04+00:00</dc:date> +</item> +<item rdf:about="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=727";> + <title>John McCreesh: OOo gets OCS</title> + <link>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2009/07/01/ooo-gets-ocs/</link> + <content:encoded><p>We&#8217;ll be using the <a href="http://pkp.sfu.ca/ocs/">OCS software</a> to manage the OpenOffice.org Annual Conference this year (and any other OpenOffice.org Conferences that want to use it). If you want a sneak preview of the site, look <a href="http://conference.services.openoffice.org/">here</a> <img src="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p> +<p>Grateful thanks to the <a href="http://pkp.sfu.ca/about">Public Knowledge Project</a> for a great piece of open-source software.</p></content:encoded> + <dc:date>2009-07-01T20:47:35+00:00</dc:date> +</item> <item rdf:about="http://cdriga.kfacts.com/open-source-world/managers-choice-spend-some-time-or-spend-money/2009/07/01/";> <title>Christian Driga: Managerâs choice: spend some time or spend money</title> <link>http://cdriga.kfacts.com/open-source-world/managers-choice-spend-some-time-or-spend-money/2009/07/01/</link> @@ -258,25 +295,5 @@ </p></content:encoded> <dc:date>2009-06-07T15:20:41+00:00</dc:date> </item> -<item rdf:about="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-3404809581266549923"> - <title>Louis Suarez-Potts: CORRECTION: Trips: China, Japan</title> - <link>http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2009/05/correction-trips-china-japan.html</link> - <content:encoded>A mistaken belief led to this <a href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2009/05/trips-china-japan.html">post</a> of mine a short while ago:<br /><br />&#x201c;23 June: I fly to Tokyo via Beijing to meet with IPA representatives to discuss contributing to OpenOffice.org. Japan has long been a promise and a problem. Good-Day, Inc., of Osaka has contributed substntially for almost as long as OOo has been around. Indeed, much of the localization effort (to Japanese) is due to their team, and I thank Maeda-san and his company, along with Nakata Maho, for their unstintinting contributions to developing the code into a qualified appication suitable for enterprise use.&#x201d;<br /><br />In fact, as was very kindly pointed out to me, this is not the case: Good-Day, though a friend, has not in fact contributed in the way I wrongly described. As was pointed out to me:<br /><br />&#x201c;Localization efforts are not due to Good-Day, but tremendous contribution by<br />ja individuals and SUN K.K., who are not Good-Day's employee. Especially<br />khirano's coordination has been most noted one. Really surprising, that<br />such a individuals can do great coordination. Recently, Kubota-san, is taking<br />over his position, and now he's been doing very well. As far as I know,<br />no substantial contributions from Good-day, at least of localization.&#x201d;<br /><br />My regrets in posting such an error, and my apologies to the all concerned, especially to my friend Kazunari HIrano (Khirano), who has been such a strong contributor to the project and promoter of it. And I welcome Kubota-san!<br /><br />Alas, errors like the one I made do occur, and I simply ask that when they do that they be pointed out to me. I&#x2019;ll return the favour :-)<br /><br />Thanks to those making OOo what it is and even better.<br /><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4649039904546083564-3404809581266549923?l=ooo-speak.blogspot.com" /></div></content:encoded> - <dc:date>2009-06-05T21:48:55+00:00</dc:date> - <dc:creator>oulipo</dc:creator> -</item> -<item rdf:about="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/d0f79a90819896d8"> - <title>GullFOSS: New print UI</title> - <link>http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/new_print_ui</link> - <content:encoded><p><a title="Earlier Entry" href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/one_step_forward_the_next">As detailed before</a> OpenOffice.org 3.2 should have a new print UI. Work on this is currently progressing nicely, the API changes are mostly in, even if not everything does work yet. The most movement at the moment is in the UI specification (aka &quot;What is the dialog going to look like?&quot;). Here are some current snapshots from the platform independent dialog:</p> - <p>First the page for general job settings:<br /></p> - <p><img align="middle" src="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/resource/gsl/job.png" /><br /> </p> - <p>And then a useful new feature called N-Up. You know that from other applications or from you printing system (if you happen to be a Unix or Mac user), however up to now there was no canonical way to do this in OpenOffice.org. Writer has its &quot;Page Preview&quot; to achieve a similar effect, Impress has a special handout mode to put multiple handout slides on one page, but we were lacking a simple, application independent way to achieve this nice paper saving effect.<br /></p> - <p><img align="middle" src="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/resource/gsl/nup.png" alt="N-Up Page" /></p> - <p>Please keep in mind that this is just a snapshot of current work, the UI is not finalized. If you are interested in helping with UI issues, please discuss your ideas on the <a href="mailto:[email protected]" title="User experience mailing list">User Experience mailing lis</a><a href="mailto:[email protected]" title="User experience mailing list">t</a>. One of the open issues is how to use the new print UI with the native Mac print dialog, in which some rather infelicitous limitations exist: first you can add options to change your print result in the dialog, but those option cannot influence the number of printed pages (which can be worked around by canceling the dialog and starting the print anew). And second if you want to run on MacOSX 10.4, too, and add print options, then you cannot get a preview (even if you ask nicely by setting explicitly the &quot;I want a preview&quot; flag). So at the moment we end up with the unusual result, that our new general dialog has a preview while the Mac native one does not. If anyone knows a solution to this problem (that is different from: have a separate 10.5 build, which we do not really want), please tell.</p> - <p>Even if there are still some issues to solve and the UI to be finalized: I think we're well on the way to have a new improved print interface for OpenOffice.org 3.2. Let me thank all the people making this possible: Mathias Bauer (Sfx), Andre Fischer (Impress), Thomas Lange (Writer), Christian Lippka (Impress), Niklas Nebel (Calc), Christoph Noack (User Experience). Thanks for your hard work; I know your schedules are tight even without this.<br /></p></content:encoded> - <dc:date>2009-06-04T16:59:25+00:00</dc:date> - <dc:creator>PhilippL</dc:creator> -</item> </rdf:RDF> File [changed]: rss20.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/rss20.xml?r1=1.780&r2=1.781 Delta lines: +39 -21 --------------------- --- rss20.xml 2009-07-01 11:00:17+0000 1.780 +++ rss20.xml 2009-07-01 23:00:22+0000 1.781 @@ -8,6 +8,45 @@ <description>Marketing Planet - http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/</description> <item> + <title>Italo Vignoli: Numbers show trends and make news stories</title> + <guid>http://www.italovignoli.org/?p=522</guid> + <link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~3/HZ5KEGLE_ok/</link> + <description><p></p><blockquote cite="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DougHaslam/~3/M4RO-HgTu6Y/"> +<p>Growing figures show trends. More Twitter followers means more good followers (and more bad followers). More business cards collected at a seminar means more good connections (and more bad connections).</p> +<p>More OpenOffice.org downloads means more OOo users (and more wasted downloads).</p> +<p>We at Associazione PLIO have been very punctual in announcing each and every download milestone reached by the Italian version of the suite since late 2006. In three years, the download rate has increased 40 times.</p> +<p>At the end of 2006 we were at 800.000 downloads per year, now we are at an average of 680.000 downloads per month (for those used to analysts numbers, the CAGR has been an astounding 240%).</p> +<p>OpenOffice.org users in Italy have been growing steadily. Of course, wasted downloads have been growing steadily as well.</p> +<p>Growing figures make news stories. Office suites are personal productivity tools, and personal productivity tools are commodities.</p> +<p>Commodities are measured by numbers, not by features (although OOo has some interesting features, such as the Hybrid PDF, a format which has not even scratched the surface of the market).</p> +<p>Users have a clear understanding of office suites, and most of them ask for improvements in key areas of personal productivity.</p> +<p>Users are interested in a growing community, because it means a larger ecosystem, more volunteers, more experts, more extensions, more and better resources, and so on.</p> +<p>Users do understand numbers, and are perfectly able to &#8220;read&#8221; between the lines of our announcements.</p> +<p>Of course, in the future they will be interested in a more sophisticated user interface and (maybe) in real time collaboration features. They know that OpenOffice.org will be there when they will need it.</p> +</blockquote> +<p><!-- +google_ad_client = "pub-7842513683997181"; +/* 468x60, created 6/28/09 */ +google_ad_slot = "7035492401"; +google_ad_width = 468; +google_ad_height = 60; +//--> +</p> +<p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/3ksASZsy7Njd6Q7y-PHopItb9ZY/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/3ksASZsy7Njd6Q7y-PHopItb9ZY/0/di" border="0" ismap="true" /></a><br /> +<a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/3ksASZsy7Njd6Q7y-PHopItb9ZY/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/3ksASZsy7Njd6Q7y-PHopItb9ZY/1/di" border="0" ismap="true" /></a></p><div class="feedflare"> +<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=HZ5KEGLE_ok:USjoCPW9PG0:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=HZ5KEGLE_ok:USjoCPW9PG0:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=HZ5KEGLE_ok:USjoCPW9PG0:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?i=HZ5KEGLE_ok:USjoCPW9PG0:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /></a> +</div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~4/HZ5KEGLE_ok" height="1" width="1" /></description> + <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:38:04 +0000</pubDate> +</item> +<item> + <title>John McCreesh: OOo gets OCS</title> + <guid>http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=727</guid> + <link>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2009/07/01/ooo-gets-ocs/</link> + <description><p>We&#8217;ll be using the <a href="http://pkp.sfu.ca/ocs/">OCS software</a> to manage the OpenOffice.org Annual Conference this year (and any other OpenOffice.org Conferences that want to use it). If you want a sneak preview of the site, look <a href="http://conference.services.openoffice.org/">here</a> <img src="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p> +<p>Grateful thanks to the <a href="http://pkp.sfu.ca/about">Public Knowledge Project</a> for a great piece of open-source software.</p></description> + <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:47:35 +0000</pubDate> +</item> +<item> <title>Christian Driga: Managerâs choice: spend some time or spend money</title> <guid>http://cdriga.kfacts.com/open-source-world/managers-choice-spend-some-time-or-spend-money/2009/07/01/</guid> <link>http://cdriga.kfacts.com/open-source-world/managers-choice-spend-some-time-or-spend-money/2009/07/01/</link> @@ -240,27 +279,6 @@ </p></description> <pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 15:20:41 +0000</pubDate> </item> -<item> - <title>Louis Suarez-Potts: CORRECTION: Trips: China, Japan</title> - <guid>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-3404809581266549923</guid> - <link>http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2009/05/correction-trips-china-japan.html</link> - <description>A mistaken belief led to this <a href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2009/05/trips-china-japan.html">post</a> of mine a short while ago:<br /><br />&#x201c;23 June: I fly to Tokyo via Beijing to meet with IPA representatives to discuss contributing to OpenOffice.org. Japan has long been a promise and a problem. Good-Day, Inc., of Osaka has contributed substntially for almost as long as OOo has been around. Indeed, much of the localization effort (to Japanese) is due to their team, and I thank Maeda-san and his company, along with Nakata Maho, for their unstintinting contributions to developing the code into a qualified appication suitable for enterprise use.&#x201d;<br /><br />In fact, as was very kindly pointed out to me, this is not the case: Good-Day, though a friend, has not in fact contributed in the way I wrongly described. As was pointed out to me:<br /><br />&#x201c;Localization efforts are not due to Good-Day, but tremendous contribution by<br />ja individuals and SUN K.K., who are not Good-Day's employee. Especially<br />khirano's coordination has been most noted one. Really surprising, that<br />such a individuals can do great coordination. Recently, Kubota-san, is taking<br />over his position, and now he's been doing very well. As far as I know,<br />no substantial contributions from Good-day, at least of localization.&#x201d;<br /><br />My regrets in posting such an error, and my apologies to the all concerned, especially to my friend Kazunari HIrano (Khirano), who has been such a strong contributor to the project and promoter of it. And I welcome Kubota-san!<br /><br />Alas, errors like the one I made do occur, and I simply ask that when they do that they be pointed out to me. I&#x2019;ll return the favour :-)<br /><br />Thanks to those making OOo what it is and even better.<br /><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4649039904546083564-3404809581266549923?l=ooo-speak.blogspot.com" /></div></description> - <pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:48:55 +0000</pubDate> - <author>[email protected] (oulipo)</author> -</item> -<item> - <title>GullFOSS: New print UI</title> - <guid>tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/d0f79a90819896d8</guid> - <link>http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/new_print_ui</link> - <description><p><a title="Earlier Entry" href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/one_step_forward_the_next">As detailed before</a> OpenOffice.org 3.2 should have a new print UI. Work on this is currently progressing nicely, the API changes are mostly in, even if not everything does work yet. The most movement at the moment is in the UI specification (aka &quot;What is the dialog going to look like?&quot;). Here are some current snapshots from the platform independent dialog:</p> - <p>First the page for general job settings:<br /></p> - <p><img align="middle" src="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/resource/gsl/job.png" /><br /> </p> - <p>And then a useful new feature called N-Up. You know that from other applications or from you printing system (if you happen to be a Unix or Mac user), however up to now there was no canonical way to do this in OpenOffice.org. Writer has its &quot;Page Preview&quot; to achieve a similar effect, Impress has a special handout mode to put multiple handout slides on one page, but we were lacking a simple, application independent way to achieve this nice paper saving effect.<br /></p> - <p><img align="middle" src="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/resource/gsl/nup.png" alt="N-Up Page" /></p> - <p>Please keep in mind that this is just a snapshot of current work, the UI is not finalized. If you are interested in helping with UI issues, please discuss your ideas on the <a href="mailto:[email protected]" title="User experience mailing list">User Experience mailing lis</a><a href="mailto:[email protected]" title="User experience mailing list">t</a>. One of the open issues is how to use the new print UI with the native Mac print dialog, in which some rather infelicitous limitations exist: first you can add options to change your print result in the dialog, but those option cannot influence the number of printed pages (which can be worked around by canceling the dialog and starting the print anew). And second if you want to run on MacOSX 10.4, too, and add print options, then you cannot get a preview (even if you ask nicely by setting explicitly the &quot;I want a preview&quot; flag). So at the moment we end up with the unusual result, that our new general dialog has a preview while the Mac native one does not. If anyone knows a solution to this problem (that is different from: have a separate 10.5 build, which we do not really want), please tell.</p> - <p>Even if there are still some issues to solve and the UI to be finalized: I think we're well on the way to have a new improved print interface for OpenOffice.org 3.2. Let me thank all the people making this possible: Mathias Bauer (Sfx), Andre Fischer (Impress), Thomas Lange (Writer), Christian Lippka (Impress), Niklas Nebel (Calc), Christoph Noack (User Experience). Thanks for your hard work; I know your schedules are tight even without this.<br /></p></description> - <pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:59:25 +0000</pubDate> -</item> </channel> </rss> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
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