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General Remarks
Apache OpenOffice 4.0 is now available for download from our official download page. Building upon the great success of the OpenOffice 3.4 release, which has seen over 57 million downloads, this major update brings exciting new features, enhancements and bug fixes. OpenOffice 4.0 features an innovative new Sidebar user interface, additional language support for 22 languages (including 3 new languages), 500 bug fixes, improvements in Microsoft Office interoperability, enhancements to drawing/graphics, performance improvements, etc. You can read the details of these later in these Release Notes.
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The new Palette is a mix of the Lotus Symphony Palette combined with the most useful original colors.
New Gradients
The Gradients are enhanced and extended with new, more useful ones, mainly taken from Lotus Symphony. The old ones are kept, but moved to the end of the list (not in the picture). These Gradients create much nicer fills for uses such as Slide Backgrounds.
New Gallery Themes and Gallery enhancements
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- Old themes are kept and sometimes extended
- Gallery is now able to store and use SVG graphics
- Many new graphics are now in SVG format, which saves space on your computer and gives the user the highest quality vector format
- Ability to add your own SVG and Metafile format graphics
- Can now be oriented horizontally or vertically and will adapt it's layout automatically
- Now also available anytime in the new Sidebar
Refined the Selection Handles User Interface
- Selection Handles were reworked to be more distinguishable.
- Transparency was added to give a slight 'clue' when the Handles cover something, but only for the Handle's fill (not their outlines) to not make them harder to view as necessary.
- The design was slightly rounded.
- Colors were tweaked a little bit for better identification (mainly when Handles are selected).
- When Keyboard-travelling over handles (CTRL-TAB) yellow handles used for CustomShapes now blink as the other handles to visualize the active handle correctly.
Refined Selection Visualization
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This is used in various places such as; Objects with TextEdit mode, highlighting of objects as Drag&Drop target or object manipulation (dashed black/white lines were used before).
Better Print Preview
The PrintPreview in the Print dialog is now fully AntiAlialised. The previous version was not, thus thin lines could vanish or produce missing parts.
Enhanced conversion to Bitmap Graphics
The conversion to Bitmap graphics is greatly enhanced for all kinds of draw objects, including chart OLEs and others. This is not only useful for internally converting objects to bitmaps, but also used for exports where bitmaps are needed, and the system clipboard. It works with single objects as well as multiple selections. Transparencies of the object and AntiAliasing on its edges are perfect now.
Enhanced FillType 'Bitmap'
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Think about the possibilities for filling the Backgrounds of Pages, Chart bars or other items. This will be used as vector data when printing or at PDF export.
Enhanced Copy/Paste
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It is now possible to Copy/Paste any object to an external PixelGraphic application, modify it as needed, and copy it back to any OpenOffice Application without quality loss. This allows everyone easy and complete image manipulation outside the Office with the tool of his choice and the capabilities he needs.
Enhanced Drag&Drop
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- You can use the Gallery as in-betwen space for DrawObjects or GraphicObjects used for that purpose.
- You can directly Drag&Drop from there onto DrawObjects.
- You can Drag&Drop from external sources onto DrawObjects.
Adapt LineStart/End to LineWidth
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This example shows cropping in an SVG graphic:
Unified visualization of ColorPalette popups
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In some cases, when the user first launches Apache OpenOffice 4.0 after an upgrade that included personal data migration, the user will see a dialog like this:
It is safe to click OK on this dialog.
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