Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:25:24 -0500 From: madodel Subject: [VOICENWS] SW: OpenOffice.org 3.1.0 beta 1 available ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: Joachim Benjamins Serenity Systems International and Mensys BV are pleased to announce the first public beta of OpenOffice.org 3.1 for eComStation and OS/2. It is available to anyone with an active OpenOffice.org Support Agreement for eComStation and OS/2, via their download-area at the Mensys Online Shop, http://www.mensys.net/login/ This release is a developer build based on the current DEV300 m38 milestone trunk. ** Features ** Support for Microsoft Office Open XML (OOXML/DOCX) file format. Support for XWP/eWPS sliding menu hilite (requires XWorkPlace 1.0.8 or eCS 2.0 RC4) Support for clipboard bitmap formats and unicode text. Support for mouse wheel. Support for WPS integration via seperate package (OOoWPS102.WPI) Support for the FreeType2 (FT2) font engine for improved text rendering. QUICKSTART: quickstart has been implemented for eComStation and OS/2; when enabled in OOo option dialogs, a shadow of your quickstart WPS icon object will be created in the startup folder. NLS: This beta version is only released in the English language. EMAIL: e-mail related settings are now supported, you can email your current document, but only ThunderBird is supported. To enable this feature, the Internet Application Integration tool must be installed and configured for your email client. In OOo options, Internet settings, set email program field to 'thunderbird'; full path for executable and directories will be taken from your INI files (IAI settings). WEB: 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. More information on the official OpenOffice.org development roadmap can be found at: http://development.openoffice.org/releases/index.html ** Installation Requirements ** - WarpIn 1.0.18 - UniClip - LibC 0.6.3 - Innotek Font Engine - this installation will not overwrite existing installations, you can use it alongside OpenOffice.org 1.1.5 and OpenOffice.org 2.x - installation should preferably be done on a JFS volume, as it may run slow otherwise. The installation target volume must support long filenames. - installation takes around 400 MB of drivespace. ** Optional Requirements ** - For better rendering of the GUI font, it is suggested to install Workplace Sans TrueType font. You can download the Workplace Sans font from the following website: http://users.socis.ca/~ataylo00/creative/fonts/index.html - WPS integration package for OpenOffice.org 3.1 for eComStation and OS/2: - Extends the WPS data file class to recognize OpenOffice.org document files - Integrated support for WPS-Wizard hint and folder info area - REXX hooks for reading document properties - When documents are saved, the proper Extended Attribute Type is added to the file, this allows recognizing OOo documents even if the extension is not added. If you are updating from an earlier release, the WPS integration is already enabled and working; if WPS integration was enabled for beta releases, you need to install the OOoWPS102.WPI package (if not already installed) and run ?:\OpenOffice.org.3.1.0.Beta\program\ooodoc.cmd This script will activate the WPS integration for this release of OpenOffice.org 3.1 and remove it from other beta releases. ** Support ** Support specific to the eComStation and OS/2 version can be obtained through the ticketing system at: http://www.ecomstation.com/support/ooo2/ A newsgroup is available for community support at: news://news.ecomstation.com/ecomstation.support.openoffice or http://news.ecomstation.com/thread.php?group=ecomstation.support.openoffice ** Enjoy! ** Best regards, Serenity Systems International -- For a choice in the future of personal computing, Join VOICE - http://www.os2voice.org [Moderator's note: All posts are sent without guarantee to the accuracy of the content. We try to verify details and URLs but this is an entirely volunteer run list, so 100% fact checking and the quality/useability of products announced here is impossible. If you respond to this post please remove the DESPAM from the poster's email addresses. Please do not send requests for information about a specific post to the moderator unless it is an update or I sent it.] -- To unsubscribe yourself from this list, send the following message to majormajor at os2voice.org unsubscribe news your.email.address at here end Or, visit http://www.os2voice.org/MailingLists.php If you have an announcement you would like posted to the VOICE News list, please send it to submit at os2voice.org or go to http://www.os2voice.org/SubmitNews.php . Please include a valid reply address and a real contact name. If you wish to comment on this post, please reply to feedback at os2voice.org