Open Office 1.1 RC is out.

Jaden · 15-07-2003 1:08pm #1

Exactly what it says in the title.

I've installed it, and they seem to have fixed all the annoying bits with excel printing.

The default network printer error is gone too.

Still flakey on powerpoint, but as always, still the best downlolad on the Intar web thing.

Spunog UIE · 15-07-2003 1:26pm

LULY http://www.openoffice.org/

dahamsta · 15-07-2003 2:21pm

Copied from MS Apps/OS. Nice to be able to do that.

adam

Gerry · 15-07-2003 5:40pm

Barely on topic, does anyone know the best way to go about improving the fonts in openoffice? I've switched on anti-aliasing in kde, still looks crap.

dahamsta · 15-07-2003 6:12pm

Have you installed the Microsoft fonts Gerry?

EDIT: http://www.graemepyle.com/linuxfonts.html

I have another couple of links somewhere if that isn't good enuff.

adam

Jaden · 15-07-2003 6:16pm

They make a difference alright. Open Office is almost unusable with default font options selected.

Gerry · 15-07-2003 7:22pm

Cheers, I'll give that a go later.

Kone · 17-07-2003 12:24pm

I love that OpenSource goodness!

Stark · 17-07-2003 12:30pm

Ximian openoffice is the best for fonts, they even fixed the manky looking menu fonts (now have gtk look). Don't know how you'd go about getting it if you're not using Suse or RedHat. Maybe try going to ftp.ximian.com and downloading the rpms yourself (they're currently at version 1.0 though)

Gerry · 17-07-2003 11:23pm

I'm using debian so I could probably do that. Got a bit burned the last time I installed ximian, on solaris it ran slower than Gnome 1.2 beta. Also need every bit of space for my dsl movies

LoLth · 18-07-2003 9:09am

Well, I'm slowly poisoning the windows peeps in work with this piece of open loveliness. The boss is already mightily impressed with open offices looks, abilities etc.

then he opened a formula stuffed excel file and open office joined his "crap" pile.

So, anyone know of a way to easily convert VB macros and formulae to an Open office usable format?

apart from that little letdown, OO really is amazingly good (and FREE!)

Gerry · 21-07-2003 5:06pm

Thanks all for help, the fonts work a treat.
Lolth, with enough googling you may be able to find a convertor.

Typedef · 21-07-2003 5:38pm

Originally posted by LoLth
Well, I'm slowly poisoning the windows peeps in work with this piece of open loveliness. The boss is already mightily impressed with open offices looks, abilities etc.

then he opened a formula stuffed excel file and open office joined his "crap" pile.

So, anyone know of a way to easily convert VB macros and formulae to an Open office usable format?

apart from that little letdown, OO really is amazingly good (and FREE!)

Gnumeric, it's the canine's gonads.

Stark · 22-07-2003 10:00am

Yes gnumeric is so good for excel functions and more, used it exclusively when I was doing a course in stats using excel.

RicardoSmith · 27-07-2003 12:49pm

As far as I know there is noscripting in Open Office. They are talking about developing one but it hasn't happened yet. Star Office has its own vba like script called star office basic. They are also saying the'll release a development kit for StarOffice soon that will be Java based.

The lack of a comprehensive scripting enviroment is one that holding myself back from swtiching to Open Office. I do a lot of work in VBA so I can't switch until I have theres alternative in Open Office or Star Office for that matter. I don't think Star Basic is quite there just yet.

Open Office 1.1 RC is out.

Comments