NeoOffice/J 1.1 Beta Release Notes

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Archived Release Notes for NeoOffice/J 1.1 Beta

These are archived release notes for an older version of NeoOffice/J. If you want to see the release notes for the current version of NeoOffice/J, please visit the NeoOffice/J Release Notes.

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Patches for NeoOffice/J 1.1 Beta

Beta Patch-11: The bugs fixed by this patch are listed below:

• A crashing bug was found in "Patch-10". "Patch-11" fixes that bug.

Beta Patch-10: The bugs fixed by this patch are listed below:

• Inter-application drag-and-drop support
• Fixes for 13 bugs, including:
  • Improved text drawing speed - The text kerning improvements added in "Patch-8" caused some slowdown in text drawing speed. This patch restores text drawing speed to pre-"Patch-8" levels.
  • Autocomplete feature now works with accented characters - This bug, which caused word autocompletion to overwrite accented characters, has been fixed.

Beta Patch-9: The bugs fixed by this patch are listed below:

• Fixes for regressions that appeared in "Patch-8" such as the "compressed text" bug (i.e. bug 580).

Beta Patch-8: The bugs fixed by this patch are listed below:

• Neo/J now behaves more like other Mac applications and will not quit when you press the red "close window" button on the last document window.
• Text copy and paste bug - The previous patch had a bug that caused Neo/J to only copy half the highlighed characters text. This bug has been fixed.
• Better text kerning - The text layout code in Neo/J has been improved to display text to more closely match the kerning in other Mac OS X applications.
• Floating windows always stay on top - In previous patches, floating windows would sometimes fall behind the document window. Neo/J now detects this and will automatically bring floating windows to the front.

Beta Patch-7: The bugs fixed by this patch are listed below:

• Overlapping characters - When using some custom fonts, certain character sequences would be combined into a single character. This bug has been fixed.
• Long paragraphs - Sometimes characters at the end of long paragraphs (e.g. more than 1000 words) would kern incorrectly. This bug has been fixed.
• Waking from sleep - On some machines, Neo/J would prevent a sleeping machine from waking. This bug has been fixed.

Beta Patch-6: The bugs fixed by this patch are listed below:

• Upgrade to the latest libwpd and writerperfect releases
• "About NeoOffice/J" and "Preferences" now present in the "NeoOffice/J" menu
• Performance enhancements and 36 bugs reported since Patch-5; the most important bugs are listed below:
  • Infinite scrolling - Some users reported that, in some cases, scrolling could enter an infinite loop. This bug has been fixed.
  • Smoother text input - Text input for languages that use input methods (e.g. Japanese, Chinese, etc.) now more accurately display committed and uncommitted text. Also, moving the cursor within uncommitted text is now supported.
  • Faster text drawing - Several users discovered that ATSUI was restricting Neo/J performance. To enhance performance, this patch caches recently drawn text so that the time spent in Mac OS X's time consuming text layout functions is kept to a minimum.
  • New crashing bugs - After Mac OS X 10.3.8 was released, several users began experiencing crashing bugs that we had not seen in earlier Mac OS X updates. These new crashing bugs have been fixed.

Beta Patch-5: 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.

Beta Patch-4: The bugs fixed by this patch are listed below:

• bug 319
• bug 322

Beta 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.

Beta 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 Beta

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