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Comentarios Generales

Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 es una revisión menor. Se recomienda a los usuarios de Apache OpenOffice 4.0.1 o versiones anteriores actualizar a la nueva versión. Puede descargar Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 la página oficial de descargas.

Nuestra base de datos para el seguimiento de correcciones de errores Bugzilla proporciona una lista detallada de los problemas resueltos.

Las áreas generales donde se han aplicado mejoras comprenden: Mejoras en la interoperabilidad OOXML, mejoras varias, corrección de errores, nuevas traducciones y actualización de traducciones. Información más detallada para cada una de estas área puede consultarse más abajo.

Apache OpenOffice ahora es compatible con Java 64bits para las actuales versiones del sistema operativo Mac OSX y para sus próximas versiones.

Nuevas características

Comentarios/Notas sobre bloques de texto

Los comentarios de texto en Writer muestran el bloque de texto al que se refieren, en lugar de marcar sólo una posición.

Esta característica se había introducido en la versión 1.2 y posteriores del formato de archivo Open Document (ODF) que, entre otras cosas, mejora la interoperabilidad con el formato de archivo OOXML, si bien todavía no se aplicaba en OpenOffice. El proyecto de mejora OSBA OOXML incluye la implementación de esta característica. En consecuencia, la implementación se basa en la integración de la labor realizada por SUSE para este proyecto OSBA - cuyos correspondientes patches han sido licenciados bajo ALv2.

Detalles de la nueva característica:

• comentarios/notas de un bloque de texto dentro de un párrafo (parte del proyecto OSBA)
• comentarios/notas en bloques arbitrarios de texto
• comentarios/annotations en bloques superpuestos de texto
• destacar el texto afectado por los comentarios/notas (parte del proyecto OSBA más las mejoras necesarias)
• Importación/exportación ODF
  
  • funcionalidad básica de importación/exportación (parte del proyecto OSBA más las mejoras necesarias)
  • soporte para las iniciales del autor (parte del proyecto OSBA más los ajustes para la necesaria conformidad con ODF)
• Importación OOXML
  
  • funcionalidad básica de importación (parte del prouecto OSBA)
  • importación de las iniciales del autor (parte del proyecto OSBA más otros ajustes)
  • importación del autor y de la fecha de creación

Soporte para iAccessible2

OpenOffice 4.1 integra soporte para la nueva API de accesibilidad iAccessible2, que ofrece una mejor integración con lectores de pantalla.

Mejoras

Edición in situ de campos de entrada

En Writer se ha mejorado la experiencia del usuario para la edición de los campos de entrada.

Ahora el usuario puede modificar el contenido de un campo de entrada directamente en el área de texto del documento - sin necesidad de ningún diálogo adicional. Al desplazarse con el cursor por el texto el usuario obtiene retroacción al entrar y salir en el campo de entrada. Un rectángulo de delimitación se muestra alrededor del campo de entrada, como se puede ver en la siguiente ilustración.

Cuando el usuario se encuentra dentro de un campo de entrada puede saltar al siguiente campo utilizando la tecla TAB, o al campo anterior utilizando MAYÚSCULAS+TAB, de forma similar a como se navega de una celda a otra en una tabla. Para insertar un carácter TAB en el campo de entrada, utilice la combinación CTRL+TAB.

En documentos de sólo lectura el usuario puede editar los campos de entrada existentes, y navegar de un campo de entrada a otro. En estos documentos también serán visibles los sombreados de los campos de entrada.

Los campos de entrada sólo pueden contener texto sin formato. En consecuencia, las opciones de formateo correspondientes se muestran desactivadas al editar el campo, si bien, puede aplicarse formateo seleccionando todo el campo. Por lo tanto, en este sentido, no hay cambios con versiones anteriores de OpenOffice.

Para más detalles sobre la mejora de la experiencia de usuario en campos de entrada consulte la wiki del proyecto In-place editing of Input Fields (en inglés).

Interactive Crop Feature

The Interactive Crop feature for selected Graphic Objects in Draw/Impress allows intuitive cropping of Graphic Object content. However, it only worked flawlessly when the object was not transformed except being translated and scaled. For AOO 4.0 a preview of the cropped part was already added, for AOO 4.1 the interactive cropping will work in combination with all possible Graphic Object transformations; if your Graphic Object is rotated, sheared, mirrored in X and/or Y, it can now be interactively cropped flawlessly. Also the cropped result will be correct now in all combinations of transformations and all possible graphic contents (pixel graphics, metafiles, SVG, ...) in all exports (Print, PDF Export, ...).

The example shows a rotated and sheared Graphic Object that gets interactively cropped to show only a part of the world map.

Import Picture from File and Drag&Drop of Graphic Data

Importing Picture/Graphic Data from File and Drag&Drop of that data has been enhanced and unified for all situations and all Applications of AOO 4.1. The main goal was to make the re-usage of existing documents or copy/pasting of single Pages easier by allowing simpler replacement of the content of existing Graphic Objects. You can now for example copy/paste Slides and easily replace the Graphic content of Graphic Objects without changing their Position or Orientation. This is also possible for Writer Graphic Objects, so e.g. copy/paste Pages in Writer containing Graphic Objects or copying Pages from another Document and then replace the Pictures.

The following actions work the same in all AOO 4.1 Applications:

For using the Import Picture from File Dialog:

• If no Graphic Object is selected, a new one will be inserted at Cursor position (as usual)
• If a Graphic Object is selected, its content will be replaced without changing the Position or Orientation
• If a Draw Object is selected, the new Graphic content will be used as Graphic FillStyle for that Object
• Selecting the 'Link' feature in the Dialog will create a linked Graphic Object in the first two cases

For Drag&Drop:

• If there is no Graphic Object at the drop position, a new one will be inserted there (as usual)
• If there is a Graphic Object at the drop position, its content will be replaced without changing the Position or Orientation
• If there is a Draw Object at the drop position, the new Graphic content will be used as Graphic FillStyle for that Object
• Pressing CTRL+SHIFT will create a linked Graphic Object in the first two cases

This was an enhancement request to make re-usage of existing Graphic Objects easier - the problem was that the user had to insert a new Graphic Object, note the Position and Size of the old one and apply this to the new one to cleanly replace the old Graphic Object. Thanks for requesting that enhancement in AOO Bugzilla!

Load/Import of 3D Charts improved

There was a performance problem when Documents with big 3D charts were Loaded (own Formats) or Imported (external Formats). That issue was located in the creation of a huge amount of 3D Objects for Chart visualization. This has been improved. For example; an example document (External with a huge Chart containing 100x100x5 vertical 3D Data Boxes) could not be imported at all. It can now be loaded in Seconds and looks like this:

This improvement allows to work with much bigger 3D Charts in AOO 4.1.

Improved Graphic Modifications/Filters for Vector Graphics

When applying Modifications and/or Filters to Graphic Objects the change was often applied by internally changing the Vector Graphic (SVG or Metafile) to a Pixel-Based variant. This makes the advantages of Vector Graphics vanish and often results in bad output quality for Print and PDF export. Also the handling of Graphic Objects varied between Writer and other AOO Applications in this aspect. This has been internally unified so that all usages of Vector Data in Graphic Objects are equally improved for this aspect and in the future.

It is not possible to enhance all modifications AOO offers to GraphicObjects to Vector Graphics in this way, but many were improved. Vector Graphics will stay enhanced when applying the following modifications:

• Gray scale
• Black/White
• Watermark
• Transparency (additional, 0% to 100%)
• Red/Green/Blue modification (-100% to 100%)
• Brightness (-100% to 100%)
• Contrast (-100% to 100%)
• Gamma Correction (0.10 to 10)

This also works for all combinations of the above modifications. This enhancement is already visible in the Edit Views, but its main goal is to increase Print and PDF export quality (and other exports that can keep Vector Data) when working with Vector Graphic content accordingly. Here is an example from the Edit Views (Left: AOO 4.0.1, Right: AOO 4.1). It's the same SVG graphic modified to Grayscale:

Keep original Graphic Data when ever possible

Previous versions of AOO eventually modified the type of inserted Graphic Data, for example inserted JPEG files were in some scenarios saved as PNG in the created ODF files. These scenarios were different for the different AOO Applications since it was not handled the same internally. This has been improved so that AOO 4.1 handles this equal in all Applications and tries to always keep your inserted original Graphic Data when possible. This gives advantages for the file size of the created ODF Files, but also for the Image quality. There were scenarios in which JPEG files were recoded to JPEG which will in no case improve the image quality but has the potential to lower it.

This works for BMP, JPEG, PNG and GIF for pixel-oriented graphics. It is also in place for Vector-based Graphics like SVG and Metafiles.

Clipboard enhancements for Graphic Content

The Clipboard support for exchange of PNG is further improved, so that Pixel-based Graphic modification cycles (e.g. copying graphic content to an external Application, modifying it and copying it back to AOO 4.1) will work better with more external Image Editors of your choice. Broader support for PNG means that transparency in Pixel-based graphics will be preserved in more places. Did you know that you can copy any Graphic Object from AOO 4.1 to the clipboard and paste it to any external Image editor of your choice to modify them and copy them back?

Other Improvements/Enhancements

Seamonkey replaced by NSS ("Network Security Services")

Outdated code from Mozilla that was used to include cryptography services and address book access has been replaced with the more modern and more secure NSS libraries. This greatly simplifies the build process and source code maintenance and is transparent to end users in general.

End users are affected only in the following ways:

• Under Windows XP, trying to add the Windows Address Book as an OpenOffice database; this has always been the case on any newer Windows versions (Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8).

• Thunderbird users will not see direct Thunderbird address book support in OpenOffice's address book wizard, but the OpenOffice support for CSV can replace it for now. Users can use Thunderbird's Tools->Export->AsCsv functionality to get their address book as comma separated text.

• Authenticated LDAP access is now unsupported (the non-authenticated access was already unsupported).

Removed/Retired Features

• Support for Macintosh OSX 10.6 and below has been dropped. Please see the System Requirements.

Bug Fixes

Additional Language Support

New translations available in Apache OpenOffice 4.1 include:

Updated translations available in Apache OpenOffice 4.1 include:

For a complete list of available languages and language packs see:

http://www.openoffice.org/download/other.html

New and Updated Dictionaries

New Dictionaries

Updated Dictionaries

Note: The extension contains multiple variants. Only the en-GB dictionary has been updated.

Known Issues

• Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 will be flagged by the new Gatekeeper facility in Mac OS X Mountain Lion and Maverick. This is a new feature to help guard against malware on Mac systems. There is a procedure laid out at the following link to allow applications not installed from the Mac App store to run. See the article at Mac support at http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5290.

• Apache OpenOffice 4.0.0 supports Java 7, which is the recommended configuration; but (especially on 64-bit Windows) you might receive warnings about the Java version being defective. In that case, download and install the Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package. If you still have problems, install the most current JRE 6 version. Make sure you get the file "Windows x86 Offline (32-bit)". Then configure OpenOffice to use it at "Tools - Options - OpenOffice - Java". See this forum topic for more information.
  
  
• On recent versions of Mac OS X it might happen, especially after a "Force quit", that the following error message appears: "Restore Windows - The application OpenOffice.org was forced to quit while trying to restore its windows. Do you want to try to restore its windows again?". If you cannot get rid of it: Option-click the "Go" menu; choose "Library" from the menu to open the folder in the Finder; click on the folder "Saved Application State"; delete the file "org.openoffice.script.savedState". See bug 119006 and bug 123681 for more information.

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