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Revision as of 00:33, 2 February 2005
The latest version of NeoOffice/J is:
1.1 Beta. Download at http://www.planamesa.com/neojava/download.php
Patches
If you want to receive announcements whenever a patch or new release of NeoOffice/J is available, subscribe to the NeoJUpdate mailing list. To subscribe to the NeoJUpdate mailing list, send an e-mail to neojupdate-subscribe@heapsys.com.
Patch-5 is available; it can be downloaded from http://www.planamesa.com/neojava/patch.php
The bugs fixed by this patch are listed below:
- Help>Registration now points to http://trinity.neooffice.org
- 55 bugs reported since Patch-4; the most important bugs are listed below:
- The "silent crashing" bug has been fixed. This bug, which is a bug in Java 1.3.1 on Panther, would unpredictably terminate Neo/J. This bug, which has existed since Panther was first released, was most likely to occur for users editing large presentation files.
- Several Unicode font kerning problems have been fixed.
- Various Aqua menu bugs that were causing some menus to disappear have been fixed.
- A bug that was causing modal dialog windows and presentation windows to sometimes get stuck behind a document window has been fixed.
Patch-5 includes all fixes and additions of previous patches. So if you've missed earlier patches, don't worry about it. Just use this one.
Patch-4: The bugs fixed by this patch are listed below:
- bug 319
- bug 322
Patch-3: The bugs fixed by this patch are listed below:
- Pressing the Command key while dragging the mouse will copy text instead of moving it.
- Menu memory leaks in OpenOffice.org 1.1.3 and Neo/J have been eliminated.
- Minimized windows will be expanded when the Neo/J Dock icon is clicked like other Mac OS X applications.
- Neo/J's patch update check will now only occur once a week instead of every time Neo/J is started.
Patch-2: The bugs fixed by this patch are listed below:
- 244 - cmd-c (copy) causes Neo to stall
- 297 - Wrong spacing around ligatures
- 301 - Beta 1.1 + first patch crashing
New Features in NeoOffice/J 1.1
If you have not downloaded a release of NeoOffice/J since version 0.8.4, there are dozens of new features in 1.1 Beta. Some of the most significant include:
- Based on OpenOffice.org 1.1.3 codebase
- Right-to-left and complex text layout (e.g., Arabic, Hebrew, Thai)
- Faster program startup
- Native Aqua menus
- New professional-quality splash screen, application and document Finder icons, and other artwork
- Localized user interfaces for 40 languages
- Mouse wheel support
- Text drag-and-drop support
- Improved PDF export
- Import of WordPerfect documents
- Support for Macintosh file aliases in open and save dialogues
- Automatic notification of new patches and versions
- Patches available as standard Mac OS X installer packages
