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NeoOffice 2.0 Alpha Release Notes
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| - | + | NeoOffice 2.0 Alpha 3 PowerPC requires a PPC Macintosh running Mac OS X 10.3 or 10.4; [http://trinity.neooffice.org/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=2230 it will not install, nor will it run under "Rosetta"], on Intel Macintoshes. | |
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Current Version
The latest version of NeoOffice is: 2.0 Alpha 3 PowerPC.
NeoOffice 2.0 Alpha 3 PowerPC requires a PPC Macintosh running Mac OS X 10.3 or 10.4; it will not install, nor will it run under "Rosetta", on Intel Macintoshes.
Patches
If you want to receive announcements whenever a patch or new release of NeoOffice is available, subscribe to the NeoJUpdate mailing list. To subscribe to the NeoJUpdate mailing list, send an e-mail to neojupdate-subscribe@heapsys.com.
Current Patch
Alpha 3 Patch-0 is now available. (NeoOffice 2.0 Alpha 3 already includes the fixes contained in Patch-0)
The new changes included in this patch are listed below:
- Support for playing sound and sound tracks in movies
- Fixed a number of issues in drag-and-drop behavior
- Fixed some issues with icon drawing behavior
- NeoOffice 2.0 now writes type codes for files like NeoOffice 1.x did
- Additional smaller bugfixes
Note: Alpha 3 Patch-0 requires a full installation of NeoOffice 2.0 Alpha PowerPC and will not install on any version of NeoOffice 1.x. Patch-0 includes all fixes and additions of previous patches.
Older Patches
2.0 Alpha 2 Patch-0 (aka NeoOffice 2.0 Alpha 2): The new changes included in this patch are listed below:
- Improved memory usage in many documents
- Fixed an issue that prevented printing or PDF export
- Fixed an issue which caused symbols in equations to appear misplaced
2.0 Alpha PPC Patch-2: The new changes included in this patch are listed below:
- Fixed an issue where new OOo 2.0-style palettes were unable to be docked
- Fixed an issue where exporting to PDF would crash, hang, or fail to include images
- Fixed a crash in OOo code when selecting the Package Manager
- Fixed an issue where NeoOffice was unable to open files that had been locked in the Finder
- Reverted the change to the UI font size since the default was too small and since this setting can be adjusted in the application preferences now
- Improved memory usage in long Writer documents
2.0 Alpha PPC Patch-1: The new changes included in this patch are listed below:
- Fixed an issue where italicizing a line of text would cause it to "stack" characters at the end of the line on top of each other
- Added shortcuts to the database component to the NeoOffice menu and the Dock menu
- Allowed double-click opening of NeoBase document in the Finder, and gave those documents an icon
- Closing the last document with Cmd-W now closes the grey window
- Fixed the UI font size
- Fixed an issue where importing a NeoOffice 1.x profile would cause a "BASIC error" when saving a file
- Fixed a memory leak
New Features in NeoOffice 2.0 Alpha
If you have not downloaded a release of NeoOffice since version 1.2, there are dozens of new features in NeoOffice 2.0 Alpha. Some of the most significant include:
- Based on OpenOffice.org 2.0.2 codebase
- Support for writing OpenDocument (aka OpenOffice.org 2.0) file formats
- Significant improvement in startup time
- New database component
- Improved sound support
