Re: OO2.4beta1

Thank you melf! I wouldnt even have checked, I will switch to eCS presently 
and give it a whirl.
"melf" <mikaelelf@os2ug.se> wrote in message 
news:6c90d4d55fb8df4d4839100cabf1c7b2$1@news.ecomstation.com...
> Open Office 2.4 beta 1 is released. I downloaded it yesterday and have 
> tried it a little. As far as I can see it works as well as the 2.04. So 
> far there don't seem to be any obvious new features, as eg a drag text 
> feature. I know they are working on a solution to that, which is aimed to 
> be implemented in the 2.4 GA realase.
> 

Open Office 2.4 beta 1 is released. I downloaded it yesterday and have 
tried it a little. As far as I can see it works as well as the 2.04. So 
far there don't seem to be any obvious new features, as eg a drag text 
feature. I know they are working on a solution to that, which is aimed to 
be implemented in the 2.4 GA realase.

On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:34:19 UTC, "Brett Carlock"
<Synper311@aol.com> 
wrote:

-> Thank you melf! I wouldnt even have checked, I will switch to eCS
presently 
-> and give it a whirl.
-> "melf" <mikaelelf@os2ug.se> wrote in message 
-> news:6c90d4d55fb8df4d4839100cabf1c7b2$1@news.ecomstation.com...
-> > Open Office 2.4 beta 1 is released. I downloaded it yesterday and
have 
-> > tried it a little. As far as I can see it works as well as the 2.04.
So 
-> > far there don't seem to be any obvious new features, as eg a drag
text 
-> > feature. I know they are working on a solution to that, which is
aimed to 
-> > be implemented in the 2.4 GA realase.
-> > 

++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service   http://www.os2voice.org ++

From: Mark Dodel <feedbackDESPAM@DESPAMos2voice.org>

"OpenOffice.org is a multiplatform and multilingual office suite and 
an open-source project."  For more general information about this see 
http://www.openoffice.org

There is a developers build of Beta1 of Open Office.org for eCS-OS/2 
for those with an active OpenOffice.org Support Agreement for 
eComStation and OS/2.  You have to Login thru the Mensys site ( 
http://shop.mensys.nl/indexuk.html ) and find it under your Downloads.

For more information about the Open Office.org for eComStation and 
OS/2 Support Agreement see http://www.ecomstation.com/openoffice

This Beta is available only in English.  This build is based on the 
2.4.0 m2 source code of OpenOffice.org which is newer than the general
release version available for other platforms which is at 2.3.1, which
is why it is listed as a developer Snapshot.  From my limited 
experience with this build, if you already have OO.org 2.0GA 
installed, this beta installs to a different directory and you can use
both, just not at the same time.

** Features **
 - Support for XWP/eWPS sliding menu hilite (requires XWorkPlace 1.0.8
or eCS 2.0 RC4)
 - Support for clipboard bitmap formats and unicode text.
 - Support for mouse wheel.
 - Support for WPS integration via seperate package (OOoWPS101.WPI)
 - FT2: this release supports the FreeType2 font engine for better 
text rendering.
 - QUICKSTART: quickstart has been implemented eComStation and OS/2; 
when enabled in
   OOo option dialogs, a shadow of your quickstart WPS icon object 
will be
   created in the startup folder.
 - NLS: multiple NLS versions can be installed, you can change the 
language with:
   Tools -> Options -> Language settings -> User Interface (Though as 
noted above, English is
   currently the only available NLS choice)

Requirements for this beta include:
 WarpIn 1.0.17 (Available on the  OOo download page)
 UniClip (available as uclip-0_2_2-os2.wpi on the OOo download page)
 LibC 0.6.3 (Available on the Netlabs FTP: 
ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/libc )
 Innotek Font Engine (Included with eComStation 1.2r or newer
 400MB disk space

See the read1st.txt file for installation instructions as well as any 
other requirements and known issues.

 


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