Announcing OpenOffice.org 1.1 Beta2

[Kevin B. Hendricks]

Announcing OpenOffice.org 1.1 Beta2
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We are glad to announce that the Beta 2 of the next version of
the OpenOffice.org Office Suite - OpenOffice.org 1.1 - is now 
available for download from:

	For YDL 3.0 users and other PPC Linux distributions using glibc-2.3.2

        http://porting.openoffice.org/linuxppc/ppclinks.html

or for Linux x86, Solaris Sparc, WIN from 

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

Versions are coming or already available for Mac OSX (X11), FreeBSD,
Irix, Solaris x86 and etc.

Openoffice.org 1.1 Beta2 represents a significant advance in the
application and incorporates the features and changes introduced
in the developer builds over the past year.  The release includes
a massive amount of new and exciting functionality, features and
bugfixes compared to the OpenOffice.org 1.0.x releases, the
highlights of which are:

	* Many new import/export formats like DocBook, several
	  PDA Office file formats, flat XML and XHTML
	* Support for PDF and Macromedia Flash export
	* 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 online help
	* Support for new languages and locales

New since OpenOffice.org 1.1 beta:

	* Support for printer independent layout
	* GUI support for xslt based filters
	* Improvements to pdf export
	* Enhanced ole editing support on windows
	* A large number of bugfixes

For a more complete list of features please see:

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

For people interested in getting started helping OpenOffice.org become
better, faster and above all more bugfree, 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.

Forwarded by:

Kevin B. Hendricks
PPC Linux Port Maintainer
OpenOffice.org