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From: Florian Effenberger <floeff@openoffice.org>
Subject: [ooo-announce] OpenOffice.org 3.0 now on general release
To: announce@openoffice.org
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:00:26 +0200
Reply-To: announce@openoffice.org
Organization: OpenOffice.org
The OpenOffice.org Community is today announcing the general availability
of OpenOffice.org Version 3. Right from the opening screen, OpenOffice.org
3 has a fresh new look, with a new start screen, new splash screen, new
icons, and a host of usability improvements.
The Writer word processor has a cool new slider control for zooming,
allows multi-page display while editing, has powerful new multilingual
support, and boasts improved notes capabilities. As well as conventional
office documents, Writer can now edit wiki documents for the web.
The Calc spreadsheet has been given another increase in capacity - now up
to 1024 columns per sheet. It also has a powerful new equation solver, and
a great new collaboration feature for multiple users.
Draw can now cope with poster-size graphics (up to 3sq metres), and
Impress supports multiple monitors for presentations. Chart now produces
much more clean looking graphics by default, and has a range of additional
features requested by power users.
The popular built-in PDF export facility has been further enhanced with
PDF/A support and a range of new user-selectable options.
OpenOffice.org 3 is now also available for the first time as a full Mac OS
X application, bringing the power of the world's leading open-source
office suite to a whole new group of users. And it's even easier than ever
to persuade MS-Office users to upgrade to OpenOffice.org, with new support
for MS-Access 2007 'accdb' files, improved support for VBA macros, and a
new ability to read MS-Office Open XML files (Microsoft Office 2007 and
Office 2008 documents)
OpenOffice.org's support for extensions is really coming of age with
OpenOffice.org 3. A rapidly expanding number of additional features are
available from different developers to add great features such as an
Impress presenter console, support for business analytics, PDF import, and
a whole new way of supporting additional languages.
Tell your friends that 2008 is 'The Year of 3'; - the year we released
OpenOffice.org 3; the year we make OpenOffice.org available on all 3 major
computing platforms (MS-Windows, GNU/Linux, and Mac OS X); and the year to
realise the 3 key benefits of OpenOffice.org: it's great software; it's
easy to use; and it's free.
Links
Official Press Release: http://www.prweb.com/releases/OOo/3/prweb1459364.htm
Download: http://download.openoffice.org
Guide to new features: http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/features/3.0
Technical release notes:
http://development.openoffice.org/releases/3.0.0.html
Availability of localised versions and ports:
http://download.openoffice.org/other.html
The OpenOffice.org Community
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