On 3/10/14 11:31 AM, Marcus (OOo) wrote: > Am 03/10/2014 10:29 AM, schrieb Jürgen Schmidt: >> Hi, >> >> I started to prepare the release announcement >> >> ##### >> The Apache OpenOffice project is pleased to announce the immediate >> availability of OpenOffice 4.1.0 Beta You can download it from our >> website [1]. >> >> The 4.1.0 Beta update includes many bug fixes as well as new >> translations: Bulgarian, Danish, Hindi, Norwegian Bokmål and Thai. >> >> Highlight of this new version is the integrated iAccessible2 support >> that is a huge milestone to support users with disabilities better on >> the windows platform. > > I find this interesting to note, too: > > - In-place editing of input fields > > The user can now modify the content of an input field directly in the > document's text area - no additional pop-up dialogs are needed. > > - Load/import of 3D charts improved > > A performance problem with documents that contains big 3D charts while > loading was solved. For exampe, a document (external with a huge chart > containing 100x100x5 vertical 3D data boxes) could not be imported at > all. It can now be loaded in seconds. > > - Improved graphic modifications/filters for vector graphics > > When applying modifications and/or filters to graphic objects the change > was often applied by internally changing the vector graphic (SVG or > metafile) to a pixel-based variant. This makes the advantages of vector > graphics vanish and often results in bad output quality for print and > PDF export. Now all usages of vector data in graphic objects are equally > improved for this aspect and in the future. > > - Changed OS X support to 64-bit (OS X 10.7 and newer) > > To guarantee a continuous but also better support of the OS X platform, > a switch to 64-bit was necessary. However due to deprecated libraries > this means also that OS X versions older than 10.7 cannot be supported > anymore. > > @Herbert: I hope it's not too bad explained. Please change as you see > fit. ;-) > > (BTW: This is not yet in the release notes [2])
I don't think we should list all thinks here, more details can we put in a blog and of course in the release notes. Accessibility support is only one very important highlight that will address an important area. The other improvements are not less important but I believe this is worth to mention. Especially because LO mentioned that they are the first free office with this support. Even it is not enabled by default ;-) Juergen > > My 2 ct > > Marcus > > > >> Details of new features and enhancements in this release are described >> in the Release Notes [2]. >> >> Those interested in the source code can download it via the links on >> this page [3]. >> >> >> Regards, >> >> ???, Apache OpenOffice Project Management Committee >> >> >> [1] http://www.openoffice.org/download/ >> >> [2] >> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.1+Release+Notes >> >> >> [3] https://openoffice.apache.org/downloads.html >> ##### > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
