ftp://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mirrors/openoffice/stable/1.1rc OpenOffice.org suite 1.1 release candidate mirror at the University of Hawaii. Downloads for Windows, Linux and Solaris are available at this location.
I had used 1.1 beta 1 and beta 2 and I am very happy with the latest improvements. If you had any problems with OpenOffice 1.0.x series, give 1.1 RC a try. -----Forwarded Message----- From: Louis Suarez-Potts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Cc: discuss-openoffice.org <[email protected]> Subject: [ooo-announce] Announcement: OpenOffice.org 1.1 RC Date: 14 Jul 2003 15:18:26 -0700 All, We are pleased to announce that the release candidate of the next version of the OpenOffice.org Office Suite - OpenOffice.org 1.1 - is now available for download from: http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/source/1.1rc/index.html OpenOffice.org1.1 RC is expected to be feature complete with no more features added before the final OpenOffice.org 1.1 release. This release addresses user feedback and is ready for everyday use by everyone. New features since OpenOffice.org 1.1 Beta 2 release include: * A "talkback" style crash reporter to collect stacktrace and error information * New command-line parameter -start to automatically start a presentation after the document is loaded * Ability to update existing OpenOffice.org 1.0.x single-user installations * Support for drawing objects in headers and footers * An example XSLT filter for Office 2003 XML format * Support for Microsoft(TM) Excel 95(TM) (and older) form controls * UNO python bridge - python is now a first class language for creating UNO components for OpenOffice.org * Built-in spell checking dictionaries for English (UK) and Italian * Built-in hyphenation support for Danish, English (UK), German, and Russian * Integrated Bitstream Vera fonts * Improved spelling suggestions using n-gram scoring The highlights of OpenOffice.org 1.1 are: * Many new import/export formats like DocBook, several PDA document file formats, flat XML and XHTML * Support for Portable Document Format (PDF) export * Support for Macromedia Flash export * Support for user provided XSLT based filters for both import and export of XML based formats, providing ability to easily support 3rd party XML file formats * Support for Complex Text Layout (CTL) and vertical writing languages such as Thai, Hindi, Arabic, Hebrew * Enhanced integration with Java * Support for accessibility * Enhanced support for add-on components * Improved on-line help * Support for many more new languages and locales compared to the OpenOffice.org 1.0.x versions For a more complete list of features please see: http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/source/1.1rc/features.html For people interested in getting started helping OpenOffice.org become better, faster and above all more bug free, a page detailing how to best file bugs, how to help the QA project deal with bug reports, how to run OpenOffice.org with Valgrind and a number of ready made bug query scripts, exists at: http://www.kegel.com/openoffice/ Thanks for supporting the OpenOffice.org project.
