gHacks Technology News | Latest Tech News, Software And Tutorials » open office 3.2 http://www.ghacks.net A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:32:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Open Office 3.2.0 Final Releasedhttp://www.ghacks.net/2010/02/09/open-office-3-2-0-final-released/ http://www.ghacks.net/2010/02/09/open-office-3-2-0-final-released/#comments Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:44:48 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/?p=22925 Open Office 3.2.0 Final has been released and is currently distributed to mirror ftp servers worldwide to ensure a smooth delivery once the release notifications will be added to the project’s homepage. Five release candidates and numerous betas have made available before the developer’s of Open Office decided to release the final version of the Office suite.

There are lots of changes and improvements over Open Office 3.1.1, the current stable build that is still offered at the Open Office website.

Among the improvements are faster startup times for Open Office writer, draw and calc, improved ODF format support, added support for proprietary formats like password protected Microsoft Office XML documents, improved statistics function, changes in the way comments are added to Draw or Impress and new diagrams in Chart.

Interested users can take a look at the What’s New page to read up on all the changes and additions in Open Office 3.2.0 which are sorted by application.

The download has not been officially listed on the Open Office homepage. Users who want to download the new version of the Office suite right away can do so from one of the distribution mirror ftp sites. It is likely that the announcement will be made in the next 24 hours which suggests that waiting for the official release is another valid option.

Users who do need to download Open Office right now should however consider downloading Open Office 3.2.0 and not Open Office 3.1.1. (Thanks Caschy)

]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2010/02/09/open-office-3-2-0-final-released/feed/ 6 Open Office 3.2 RC1 Brings Speed Improvements And New Featureshttp://www.ghacks.net/2009/12/21/open-office-3-2-rc1-brings-speed-improvements-and-new-features/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/12/21/open-office-3-2-rc1-brings-speed-improvements-and-new-features/#comments Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:26:00 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/?p=21680 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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  • The Bubble Chart is available as new chart type now
  • Keyboard shortcut configuration dialog now supports “ALT” modifier
  • Removed the password length limitation in ODF document password creation dialog
  • Menu items display changed
  • Support for PS-OpenType fonts
  • Impress and Draw now support comments (formerly known as sticky notes) to support collaboration
  • More filter criteria in “Standard Filter” dialog
  • Use System Credentials for Web Site Authentication
  • “Notes” feature renamed to “Comments”
  • Encryption support for “Microsoft Word 97/2000/XP” filter.

Users who are interested in testing Open Office 3.2 Beta can head over to the official Open Office website to download the beta version. The beta is available for all supported operating systems and languages. The list of changes and additions implemented in Open Office 3.2 are available at the release notes page.

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