** Apache OpenOffice 4.1.2 for eComStation and OS/2 ** Welcome to the GA version of Apache OpenOffice 4.1.2 for eComStation and OS/2. Apache OpenOffice is comprised of six personal productivity applications: a word processor (and its web-authoring component), spreadsheet, presentation graphics, drawing, equation editor, and database. ** Warning ** Do not install this version over an existing installation. ** Features ** - NLS: Apache OpenOffice for eComStation and OS/2 is released in English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, Dutch and Russian. - Internet integration: - e-mail related settings are now supported, you can email your current document, but only Thunderbird is supported (see below). - The default OS/2 browser will be used for opening web pages from URL links in documents (see below). - Desktop integration: - support for WPS integration via seperate package - support for the FreeType2 (FT2) font engine for improved text rendering - support for XWP/eWPS sliding menu hilite (requires XWorkPlace 1.0.8 or eCS 2.0 RC4 or newer) - support for clipboard bitmap formats and unicode text - support for mouse wheel - Quickstart: the quickstart feature has been implemented for eComStation and OS/2. ** Additional information ** - The main Apache OpenOffice.org readme may be found online here: http://www.openoffice.org/development/releases/4.1.2.html - Information on the OS/2 version of Apache OpenOffice may be found here: http://www.bitwiseworks.com - You may contribute to the development of the Apache OpenOffice for eComStation and OS/2. Please visit the following page to make your donation: http://www.bitwiseworks.com/shop ** Installation notes ** - You need only one WPI for you preferred language. For additional languages you need only the language WPI to install. - This installation can be used alongside Apache OpenOffice 1.1.5, OpenOffice.org 2.x, and OpenOffice.org 3.x releases. - Installation should preferably be done on a JFS volume, as it may run slowly otherwise. The installation target volume must support long filenames. - Installation takes approximately 400 MB of drivespace. - During installation, a template folder is created which holds a large number of templates which can be used as a base for Apache OpenOffice documents. - For better rendering of the GUI font, it is suggested to install Workplace Sans TrueType font. This will also visualize the numbering for the vertical ruler, since the default font, WarpSans, cannot be rotated. It is advised to install this font prior to installing Apache OpenOffice. This font is available by default in eComStation 2.x, or may be obtained from: http://www.altsan.org/creative/fonts/workplace/ - Internet Application Integration (optional) This tool is installed and configured by default in eComStation 2.x. You may download it from the author's website if needed: https://sites.google.com/site/chuckmckinnis/os-2 When configured properly, it is possible to use Thunderbird for sending your documents. To enable this feature, the Internet Application Integration tool must be installed and configured for your email client. In AOO options, Internet settings, set email program field to 'thunderbird'. The full path for executable and directories will be taken from your INI files (IAI settings). The default OS/2 browser will be used for opening web pages. To enable this feature, the Internet Application Integration tool must be installed and configured for your browser. - Quickstart: To enable quickstart, you can place a shadow of the quickstart WPS icon object in the startup folder. Currently AOO cannot be unloaded, you need to 'kill' the open instance. You can customize the quickstart feature and decide which modules to preload at system startup. Open the Quickstart object properties and change the parameters field with: -writer to preload Writer module -calc to preload Calc module -draw to preload Draw module -math to preload Math module -base to preload Base module -impress to preload Impress module -norestore suppress restart/restore after fatal errors. You can mix above settings to match your personal preferences. Without above options, only the AOO core program will be loaded. ** High memory notes ** This build of Apache OpenOffice has been tested with dll loading in high memory. To enable this feature, you only need to execute the highmem object in your new AOO installation. This feature works only with kernel 14.106, it will trap your system with earlier releases. ** System requirements ** - OS/2 Warp 4 (FP17 or higher) or eComStation 1.x, 2.x - 32-bit tcpip stack - UniClip (search on hobbes for it) - The following packages must be installed (dll only): libc 0.6.6 gcc 4.9.2 gcc 4.7.3 gcc 4.4.4 ssl curl jpeg xslt libicu z xml2 stdcpp stdcpp6 mmap pthread urpo To install the above requirements you have two choices. Either RPM/YUM installation or WPI installation: RPM/YUM installation: These files can be installed with the following command: yum install libc libgcc1 libgcc-fwd openssl curl libjpeg libxslt libicu zlib libxml2 mmap pthread urpo libstdc++6 libstdc++ (all one line) WPI installation: Download the AOO-4120-GA-rpm.wpi before you start the installation. This WPI is not installable. It's just a helper WPI which can be installed from the main Apache OpenOffice WPI. This WPI *must* reside in the same directory where the Apache OpenOffice WPI resides before installation. ** Uninstallation ** Uninstallation could leave some files in the installation directory, remove them manually. ** Known issues ** - Printing of unicode text could fail, this is an ft2lib issue under investigation. Bullets are unicode characters, you can use images to workaround this limit. - Apache OpenOffice will use high memory for documents, but DLL binary code is loaded in the low shared arena by OS/2 kernel; this causes it to fail on some systems. If this happens, Apache OpenOffice will popup an error message with a reference to the failing DLL. It may help to set the VIRTUALADDRESSLIMIT to 1536 or 1024 in the config.sys. With kernel 14.106 it is possible to mark dynamic libraries for high memory loading (see icons in Extras forlder). Since this feature is not stable, we cannot apply to code, but testers have found it works in most situations (be aware, you can trap your system when killing AOO). Another helpful hint is to use the QuickStart feature described above, this will 'preload' parts of OpenOffice into memory, which may increase the success rate of loading OpenOffice. - Font rendering: Since rendering is done directly with Unicode fonts, it may happen that some older fonts are not anti-aliased; this means that your font does not support Unicode charmaps and needs to be upgraded. - Play of sounds is not working. - Java 1.6 initial support is included in this release, but not widely tested. At least Java 1.6 GA3 HotFix 1 is required. See http://svn.netlabs.org/java for installation details and additional requirements. - Macro security not tested (requires Java). - Digital signatures not tested (requires Java) - Base module supports dBase, MySQL, ODBC databases. HSQLDB not tested (requires Java). - WebDav support is disabled in this build due to SERF library bugs. - WebDav access to mediacenter.gmx.net requires a directory on first access (e.g. http://mediacenter.gmx.net/mysubdir). ** Reporting your findings ** If you find any bugs, issues, or have other remarks, please open a ticket in the Apache Bug Tracker: https://issues.apache.org/ooo/ If you find any bugs, issues, or have other remarks, please provide as many details as possible and attach the XXXX.TRP file created at every AOO crash: this file is located into your X:\ApacheOpenOffice.4\program\ directory. Also set the ticket to block issue 118923, which is the general tracker ticket for OS/2 and eComStation development. ** User Support ** For help with Apache OpenOffice, visit the official support page, here: http://www.openoffice.org/support/index.html Additional links are provided on that page to help guide your search. ** (c) 2005-2012 Serenity Systems International ** ** (c) 2014-2015 bww bitwise works GmbH **