OpenOffice.org 3.1.0 RC1 / 3.0.1

Full-featured office productivity suite
OpenOffice.org is a multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites, the product is free to download, use, and distribute.

OpenOffice.org is a suite that individuals, governments, and corporations around the world have been expecting for the last two years. Easy to use and fluidly interoperable with every major office suite, OpenOffice.org realises the potential of open source.

With new features, advanced XML capabilities and native support for the OASIS Standard OpenDocument format, OpenOffice.org gives users around the globe the tools to be engaged and productive members of their society.

Platforms currently supported include Mac OS X (under X11), Microsoft Windows (98 - Vista), GNU/Linux ("Linux"), Sun Solaris, and FreeBSD.

NOTE: OpenOffice.org is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License.

Requirements:

X11 (only for the PPC version)

Latest version of Java 1.5

512 MB RAM

500 MB available hard disk space

1024 x 768 graphic device with 256 colors (higher resolution recommended)


What's New in This Release:

Grammar checking:

Grammar checking is now available in OpenOffice.org Writer. Therefore the former dialog gets extended to handle grammar checking too. The dialog is now also able to show a vendor logo as a bitmap and name in the dialog title.

Let OOo use own file locking mechanics to lock alien formats as well:

As practice has shown, it is a quite common case that OOo is used to edit documents of alien formats on network. Unfortunately it looks to be impossible to let the file be locked using file system locking, since it does not work in heterogeneous file systems as expected, and the mentioned scenario has been recognized as very important one. Thus the locking mechanics of OOo is not recognizable for third-party applications, except they implement support for OOo locking mechanics. The implementation in childworkspace fwk94 let the alien files be locked using the OOo file locking mechanics as well. That solves at least the cases when a file of alien format is edited only by OOo3.x in network.