Additional changes include:
* performance improvements: for example, a 23 percent improvement in certain
Calc benchmarks
* further improvements to file format compatibility with Microsoft Office files
* new email integration features for users wanting to send emails in Microsoft
file formats
* more control over how exported PDF documents will display when opened in a
PDF reader
* support for more languages and improvements in hyphenation and thesaurus
* support for Intel architecture for Mac OS X plus improved Mac OS X System
integration
* built-in check for updated versions
This version solves the OOo bug 55330 that the value of a graphics
object attribute was accidentally inverted during read.
Update submitted by Geert Hendrickx in PR pkg/31851.
open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites, the
product is free to download, use, and distribute.
New features in version 2 include:
* Open Standards XML File Format (OASIS OpenDocument)
* New CustomShapes (compatible with Microsoft AutoShapes)
* Enhanced PDF Export
* New enhanced Database Frontend
* Mail Merge Wizard
* Support for Nested Tables
* Digital Signatures Support
* XForms Support
* WordPerfect Filters
A complete list is available at
http://marketing.openoffice.org/2.0/featureguide.html.
This package was submitted by Geert Hendrickx to tech-pkg, based on an
earlier version posted there by myself.