[GUFSC] novos recursos dopróximo OpenOffice

[Ricardo Grützmacher]

Achei muito interessante os novos recursos do novo Open Office, como 
PDF and Macromedia Flash export; DocBook, PDA office-file formats, flat 
XML and XHTML

http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/source/1.1beta2/features.html



OpenOffice.org 1.1 Beta2 Features

2003-05-22
Enhanced file format support

     * PDF (Portable Document Format) export
     * Support for mailing a document as PDF.
     * DocBook/XML import/export.
     * XHTML export.
     * Support for exporting as a flat XML file.
     * Support for Macromedia Flash (SWF) export.
     * Support for mobile device formats like AportisDoc (Palm), Pocket 
Word and Pocket Excel.

Accessibility

     * Support for full keyboard navigation and control
     * Support for tracking system colour scheme and theme settings
     * Support for accessibility in the help system and documents
     * Initial support for Assistive Technologies via Java accessibility 
APIs

Internationalization
CTL, vertical and bidirectional writing

     * Support for vertical writing within text documents, text frames 
and graphic objects
     * Support for vertical writing in spreadsheet cells (the direction 
is individualy selectable)
     * Support for input, display and editing of scripts using Complex 
Text Layout (CTL)
     * Support for RTL layout and text in the OpenOffice.org GUI
     * Support for BiDi-writing in OpenOffice.org documents
     * Support for using either Arabic or Hindi numerals
     * The RTL vs. LTR default text direction is automaticly selected 
based on locale

Other Internationalization enhancements

     * Support for various 8-bit Arabic and Hebrew text encodings / code 
pages.
     * Support for the KOI8_U encoding.
     * New CTL options tab in language options dialog.
     * Rescue mode support for BiDi/CTL with X11 fonts.
     * Sequence Input Checking (SIC) for languages like Thai and Hindi.
     * Initial glyph fallback support.

MS Office compatibility enhancements
All components

     * More accurate import and export of graphics objects
     * Import and export of CJK and CTL documents
     * Enhancements to overall stability and accuracy of conversion

Word

     * Forms conversion within Word documents
     * Improved import of text document layout

Excel

     * Support for Data Validation
     * Import/export of graphical details of charts

PowerPoint

     * Even better one-to-one layout of text frames
     * Improvements to import of WordArt objects

Writer

     * Enhanced footnote support.
     * Improved hyperlink support for TOCs.
     * Improved keyboard handling in toolboxes.
     * Plain text files will now be imported using a non-proportional font.

Draw/Impress

     * Alternative language support for spell check on text drawing object.

Spreadsheet:

     * Import and export of areas in charts in Excel files that are 
formatted with bitmaps, textures or hatchings.
     * The sum button inserts a sum function or a subtotal function, 
depending on context.

Database:

     * Table control via keyboard navigation in table designer.
     * Added ability to switch off brackets for bibliography fields.
     * New database type in data source administration dialog - MySQL.
     * Ability to add labels to field names in the report wizard.
     * A data source can now use any character set known to OpenOffice.org.
     * UI support for user installed database drivers.
     * Database Report Wizard

Other Enhancements

     * The splash screen now has a progress bar.
     * Improved online help content.
     * OpenOffice.org ActiveX Control (Windows only).
     * Additional property pages for OpenOffice.org file types in 
Windows Explorer.
     * Improved configurability of dialogs and toolbars.
     * Configurable font for HTML and BASIC source code.
     * Autodetection of newly installed languages for spellchecker, 
thesaurus and hyphenator.
     * Improved URL autocompletion in hyperlink dialog.
     * The context menu now contains 'Open Hyperlink' if opened on a URL.
     * Locking of user installations against accesses from multiple 
machines with shared directories.
     * Command line tools and an API for importing configuration data 
into the backend.
     * Document windows are now always created in a cascade to avoid new 
window completely overlapping the old one.
     * Support for registering add-ons and accessing add-ons via an 
auto-generated menu.
     * New FTP file access component.
     * The registration dialog will now display instead of addressbook 
data source selection on first run.
     * Support for recovering slightly damaged OpenOffice.org files.
     * A new java to native UNO bridge with up to 10 times better 
performance.
     * Detection of a misconfigured Java installation.
     * New ppd file for generic postscript printing with type42 font 
support.
     * Support for configuring font rendering via environment variables.
     * Support for copy/paste of bitmap graphics on Unix.
     * Macro Recorder