The release of Open Office 3.2 RC1 offers speed improvements, a handful of other features and lots of bug fixes that might make it worth for some users to switch to this version before the final version of Open Office 3.2 is released. The Open Office developers have created a features page for the first release candidate that details the new features and changes that have been added and implemented into Open Office 3.2.
Among them a faster startup time which reduced the Open Office startup time by 46% in comparison to Open Office 3.0. The benchmarks that the developer’s have conducted see a startup time decrease of nearly 5 seconds between Open Office 3.0 and 3.2 and nearly 3 seconds between Open Office 3.1.1 and 3.2.
The proprietary file compatibility now supports password protected Microsoft Office documents like .docx, .xlsx or .pptx which includes saving encrypted Word documents and OLE objects, form controls and pivot tables in Excel documents.
Other new features include:
- ODF Support – OpenOffice.org 3.2 has made further strides in compliance with ODF 1.2, including closer conformance to OASIS ODFF/OpenFormula specifications.
- Support for Postscript based OpenType fonts
- Draw and Impress now support comments (formerly known as sticky notes) to support collaboration
The full list of features in Open Office 3.2 RC1 is available on this page. A list of all changes in this release is available here.
Open Office 3.2 RC1 is available for download from the Open Office website for all supported operating systems and languages. Please note that this is not a final release and therefor not suitable for productive environments.
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Good to know! Looking forward to official release!
Seems really worth a shot.
this is faster openoffice