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Page: AOO 3.4 Release Notes
(https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+3.4+Release+Notes)
Edited by Armin Le Grand:
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h2. General Remarks
h2. New Features
h3. Support for Line Cap Property
Now you can add a cap to the ends of a line. Such caps are not only known in
the ODF1.2 standard but in HTLM5 and SVG too. Also other Office Sites provide
caps in different styles to be added to thick lines.
Three styles exist
* without a cap, called 'Butt' in programming and 'Flat' in UI (as in MS Office)
* with a round cap, called 'Round'
* with a rectangle cap, called 'Square'
The property value 'Flat' corresponds to the old behavior and is now the
default.
!LineCap_PureLines.png!
The caps are added to the lines, so that the total length of the lines
increases with two-times a half line width.
Select the value from a drop-down-list in the line property dialog, just beside
the settings for corner style. The new property is only available in contexts,
where the corner style is active too.
!LineCap_Dialog.png!
If a line is dashed, the single dashes get caps too. Hereby a dot is treated as
dash. You can style not only pure lines and curves, but the border of graphic
objects as well.
!LineCap_BorderlineDotted.png! !LineCap_CurveDashed.png!
The next example shows the new property applied to a connector. Left side
without cap, in the middle with 'round' cap, and on the right side with
'square' cap.
!LineCap_CapOnConnectors.png!
The caps are available for 3D-objects too, when you turn on lines and make them
thick. The example shows lines, which are styled to look “dotted”.
!LineCap_SphereDotted.png! and a zoom… !LineCap_SphereZoom.png!
Linecaps defined in svg-graphics are supported, so that those graphics look
like in modern browsers.
h3. ODF 1.2 support
cryptography: with ODF 1.2 support BlowFish encryption and SHA1 message digest
became available
h3. Better UI Defaults for Draw and Impress
[Better Bullet
UI|http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/BetterDefaults_BulletsColorsShortcuts_workout]
[Better Grid
UI|http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Specification_BetterDefaults_Gridhandling#Detailed_Specification]
h3. ODF Formula learns new Conditional Functions
Support conditional functions COUNTIFS, SUMIFS, AVERAGEIF and AVERAGEIFS
h3. Time Axis supported in Chart
!timeaxis_sample.png!
h3. Dynamic Resolution for Exported Images
When exporting images the resolution can be adjusted
h3. PDF File Size Reduction
PDFs containing monochrome bitmaps are smaller now
h3. PivotTable has been extended
PivotTable (formerly known as DataPilot) is no longer limited in the number of
fields
h3. Improved CSV export
Better interoperability with other applications supporting the import of CSV
(Comma Separated Values) files as the style for exporting strings is
configurable now
h3. Improved Printing on Unix
Printing via PDF (if the system supports it) allows object transparency to be
handled directly by the printer subsystem
h3. Support for shear transformations for GraphicObjects [(Blog
entry)|https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/features_for_graphicobjects_and_oleobjects]
GraphicObjects which get created when inserting graphics in Draw/Impress and
Calc support now not only rotation but also shear, slant and distort. The
visualization during interactions got improved, also the break for vector-based
GraphicObjects to draw objects was improved. Writer has it's own
GraphicObjects, the ones from the other applications can be copied to it as
workaround.
h3. Support for attributes and transformations for OLEObjects [(Blog
entry)|https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/features_for_graphicobjects_and_oleobjects]
OLEObjects (OLE is for Object Linking and Embedding) in Draw/Impress and Calc
support now all draw attributes and geometrical transformations. They can have
line style, fill style, shadow and text. They support all kinds of
transformations, e.g. rotations and shear. This is handy for e.g. having a
mathematical formula shown rotated by 90 degrees or adding a border to a chart.
Break to draw objects is also enhanced.
h3. Enhanced crop support for GraphicalObjects
Crop for GraphicObjects now works correctly together with horizontal and/or
vertical mirroring in all applications.
h3. Support for Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
Svg is now supported as content for GraphicObjects in all applications. The new
implemented generic Svg interpreter supports Svg format 1.1. The geometric
content is internally processed as vector data in all usages, e.g. PDF export
and printing, which guarantees good visualization quality. Svg graphics can be
broken to draw objects and be processed further.
h3. Support for MultiImage in ODF
For Svg support it was necessary to allow multiple image representations for
one GraphicObject to be present in the ODF file format, e.g. a pixel graphic
and the original Svg is written in case of a GraphicObject with Svg content.
This allows to stay compatible with other and older ODF supporting
applications. The number of images for one GraphicObject is not limited;
applications using this may choose the image with the format which supports
it's purpose best, e.g prefer to use a pixel graphic for ODF viewers. AOO 3.4
uses a weighting function which prefers pixel images with transparency over
such without and vector formats over pixel formats.
h3. Enhanced chart visualisation
The visualization quality of charts has been enhanced by using a new mechanism
for more direct visualisation. This increases speed, reduces memory usage and
enhances chart visualisation in all visualisations, including PDF export and
printing.
h3. Enhanced RTF export
Now it supports nested tables, more character properties, sections, graphics
for Wordpad, bookmarks, fields, drawings and OLE
objects
h3. Faster Startup
Startup is faster as the program got enough initial knowledge about its
components that it doesn't have to start them
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