![]() ![]() It does not use MFC or Windows Forms or GTK or Qt, but does all the drawing itself and imitates the look of MFC or Windows Forms or GTK or Qt at the same time. ![]() ![]() OOo becomes nicer (slowly, as it’s not because of the monolithic soffice binary. There are improvements, there are not as many improvements as advertised, but there are enough improvements in order to justify an upgrade. Generally, I’d say that upgrading is useful. (Little Joke: Perhaps OOo does not implement LZW compression because only Acrobat 6 and above can open it, but only Acrobat 5 is available for Solaris, so SUN, the true manufacturer of OOo, does not want that.) Why doesn’t OOo implement that? LZW patents expired one year ago! Please don’t misunderstand it: It’s a lossless compression! The quality is not touched, the document streams are only compressed with LZW. Now download this GPLed command-line tool: Export 150 pages (formatted text, no images) to PDF (medium quality) and you will get several Megabytes. Please don’t flame me for that, try it yourself. – The PDF exporter is still poor, despite its improvements. Hey, it’s the first thing that new users see, please improve that! I can accept that because it’s not that extreme, but it’s absolutely noticeable compared to other products, especially MSO. Startup is slow, the menus are slow, opening documents is slow, saving documents is slow, rendering a presentation slide is slow, everything is slow. SUN’s installation instructions for JMF are incomplete and do not work! I got it working by setting billions of environment variables and spending a whole afternoon on it… I really dislike that because JMF is very difficult to install, but I need at least MPEG-1/2 support for presentations. The multimedia components are using JMF (Java Media Framework) and can *not* be used with GCJ, they are simply not built when using GCJ. – The PDF exporter was improved, it keeps indexes and bookmarks intact now and offers lossless image compression. – Implements the OASIS OpenDocument specification -> I don’t care because I use only OOo and MSO, but it might be important to others. The native installation method (MSI for Windows, RPM for Linux) is much more professional than the previous self-made setup program. – Is much friendlier to system admins now. It was completely reorganised and is more usable now. The screenshot that was posted before is old and shows an incomplete implementation of GTK vcl integration. – Looks much better than OOo1 both on w32 and x11. ![]()
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