Announce: OpenOffice.org 1.1RC for YDL 3 and other PPC Linux Dists

[Kevin.Hendricks]

We are pleased to announce that the release candidate of the next
version of the OpenOffice.org Office Suite - OpenOffice.org 1.1 - is now
available for download from:

         http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/source/1.1rc/index.html

For PPC Linux (Yellowdog 3 and other ****glibc-2.3.2**** distributions) 
please see:

         ftp://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/software/openoffice
              and any of its mirrors


OpenOffice.org1.1 RC is expected to be feature complete with no more
features added before the final OpenOffice.org 1.1 release.

New features since OpenOffice.org 1.1 Beta 2 release include:
         * A "talkback" style crash reporter to collect stacktrace
           and error information
         * New command-line parameter -start to automatically
           start a presentation after the document is loaded
         * Ability to update existing OpenOffice.org 1.0.x single-user 
installations
         * Support for drawing objects in headers and footers
         * An example XSLT filter for Office 2003 XML format
         * Support for Microsoft(TM) Excel 95(TM) (and older) form 
controls
         * UNO python bridge - python is now a first class
           language for creating UNO components for OpenOffice.org
         * Built-in spell checking dictionaries for English (UK) and 
Italian
         * Built-in hyphenation support for Danish, English (UK), 
German, and Russian
         * Integrated Bitstream Vera fonts
         * Improved spelling suggestions using n-gram scoring

The highlights of OpenOffice.org 1.1 are:

         * Many new import/export formats like DocBook, several
           PDA document file formats, flat XML and XHTML
         * Support for Portable Document Format (PDF) export
         * Support for Macromedia Flash export
         * Support for user provided XSLT based filters for both import
           and export of XML based formats, providing ability to easily
           support 3rd party XML file formats
         * Support for Complex Text Layout (CTL) and vertical writing
           languages such as Thai, Hindi, Arabic, Hebrew
         * Enhanced integration with Java
         * Support for accessibility
         * Enhanced support for add-on components
         * Improved on-line help
         * Support for many more new languages and locales compared to
           the OpenOffice.org 1.0.x versions

For a more complete list of features please see:

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

For people interested in getting started helping OpenOffice.org become
better, faster and above all more bug free, a page detailing how to best
file bugs, how to help the QA project deal with bug reports, how to
run OpenOffice.org with Valgrind and a number of ready made bug query
scripts, exists at:

         http://www.kegel.com/openoffice/

Thanks for supporting the OpenOffice.org project.

Kevin