Features
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Latest Updates
Features for 2.1 Release (December 2006)
- Application updates
- Multiple monitor support for Impress
- Improved Calc HTML export
- Enhanced Microsoft Access support for Base
- Versioning of Extensions in the Extension Manager
- Translation and localization improvements
- Added Gascon (gsc_FR) locale
- Improved other localizations: Chinese, Czech, Slovenian
- Speed improvements
Notable Bug Fixes
- Accessibility improvements
- Gtk Quickstarter fixes
Features for 2.0.4 Release (September 2006)
- General
- Automatic notification of updates
- System Integration
- KDE settings integration
- Support CUPS for printing on OS X
- Netbeans Integration enhancements
- Use MacOSX installer for X11 builds
- Application Updates
- Export images directly out of Impress and Draw
- PDF Security options on export
- LaTeX export
- Create reports from a native database query
- Extension Updates
- Extended Dialog Editor to support binding of UNO Objects
- Library export in Basic IDE
- Support for extensions dependencies
- New locales
- Fijian (fj_FJ)
- Tigrigana (ti_ER)
- Namibian (af_NA, en_NA)
- Amharic Ethiopia (am_ET)
- ...
Notable Bug Fixes
- PDF Export fixes
- Word Perfect import updates
New Features planned for OpenOffice.org
The items and dates listed here are under development and may change !
Planned Features for 2.2 Release (March 2007)
- SoC: SQLite driver
- Extensions can have online updates [1]
- OXT (Extension) integration with Windows, KDE, and GNOME.
- PDF Export update (eg. bookmarks in PDFs, default zoom) [2]
- Autokerning enabled by default for new documents [3]
Notable Bug Fixes
Planned Features for 2.3 Release (June 2007)
- Chart2
Planned Features for 2.x/3.0 Release
- New Chart Module
- XForms Enhancements
- Performance Improvements
- Threading Framework
- Drawing Engine
- Table support in Impress
- Extensions:
- API enhancements
- GUI enhancements
- Better VBA? [7]