| OpenOffice.org announces update, with FontOOo autopilot |
Jun. 18, 2004
OpenOffice.org (OOo) has announced the immediate availability of the new 1.1.2 version of the open source office suite, codenamed Hakone. The new version introduces the FontOOo Autopilot, which downloads and installs fonts from various sources. In addition, this release provides improved support for dBase database files, additional language support, and improved XML export facilities, as highlighted features.
A full feature list is available here, and the release notes are here.
In addition to English, builds for Czech, Danish, French, German, Japanese, and Slovak are immediately available with other localizations editions to follow soon.
OpenOffice.org's mission is to create, as a community, the leading international office suite that will run on all major platforms and provide access to all functionality and data through open-component based APIs and an XML-based file format. OOo is freely available for anyone to use, improve, modify, and redistribute to anyone, according to the terms of its open source licenses, LGPL & SISSL.
Free end user support for OpenOffice.org is provided by the community through mailing lists, forums, and Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channels. Commercial support is also provided by Sun Microsystems and other organizations.
This new version is initially available on the Windows (98/ME/NT/2000/XP), GNU/Linux (X86 and PowerPC), and Solaris (SPARC and X86) platforms.
The suite and it's source code can be downloaded here or obtained on CDROM through a distributor.
Codenamed Hakone
Hakone Town is a small hot-spring town in mountainous landscape near Mt. Fuji. But in the 17-18th century, this town was also known as the "Hakone barrier" in Tokaido High Road, defending Edo (Tokyo). Hakone is often mentioned as a symbol of breakthrough. Shu Minari, the Japanese CD-ROM project leader, lives near Hakone and is planning to take photos of Hakone landscapes for a label and jacket design for the 1.1.2 CD Japanese version. When the project creates the 1.1.2 Hakone CD, it will show it to the Hakone Town Administration, the Hakone Tourist Association, and other relevant organizations, and ask them if they can place the 1.1.2 Hakone CDs at souvenir shops, since the project can also make a 1.1.2 Hakone CD English version as well as other language versions. More information about Hakone is here.
If you are located in the Saratoga, California area, you can also take in Hakone Gardens, the oldest surviving Japanese-style residential gardens in the Western Hemisphere.
(Click here for further information)
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