Serenity Systems International and Mensys BV are pleased to announce the first public beta of OpenOffice.org 3.1 for eComStation and OS/2.

It is available to anyone with an active OpenOffice.org Support Agreement for eComStation and OS/2, via their download-area at the Mensys Online Shop, http://www.mensys.net/login/ This release is a developer build based on the current DEV300 m38 milestone trunk.

** Features **

Support for Microsoft Office Open XML (OOXML/DOCX) file format.
Support for XWP/eWPS sliding menu hilite (requires XWorkPlace 1.0.8 or
eCS 2.0 RC4)
Support for clipboard bitmap formats and unicode text.
Support for mouse wheel.
Support for WPS integration via seperate package (OOoWPS102.WPI)
Support for the FreeType2 (FT2) font engine for improved text rendering.

QUICKSTART: quickstart has been implemented for eComStation and OS/2; when enabled in OOo option dialogs, a shadow of your quickstart WPS icon object will be created in the startup folder.

NLS: This beta version is only released in the English language.

EMAIL: e-mail related settings are now supported, you can email your current document, but only ThunderBird is supported. To enable this feature, the Internet Application Integration tool must be installed and configured for your email client. In OOo options, Internet settings, set email program field to 'thunderbird'; full path for executable and directories will be taken from your INI files (IAI settings).

WEB: the default OS/2 browser will be used for opening web pages. To enable this feature, the Internet Application Integration tool must be installed and configured for your browser.

More information on the official OpenOffice.org development roadmap can be found at: http://development.openoffice.org/releases/index.html

** Installation Requirements **

- WarpIn 1.0.18
- UniClip
- LibC 0.6.3
- Innotek Font Engine
- this installation will not overwrite existing installations, you can
  use it alongside OpenOffice.org 1.1.5 and OpenOffice.org 2.x
- installation should preferably be done on a JFS volume, as it may
  run slow otherwise. The installation target volume must support long
  filenames.
- installation takes around 400 MB of drivespace.

** Optional Requirements **

- For better rendering of the GUI font, it is suggested to install
  Workplace Sans TrueType font. You can download the Workplace Sans font
  from the following website:
    http://users.socis.ca/~ataylo00/creative/fonts/index.html

- WPS integration package for OpenOffice.org 3.1 for eComStation
  and OS/2:

  - Extends the WPS data file class to recognize OpenOffice.org document
    files
  - Integrated support for WPS-Wizard hint and folder info area
  - REXX hooks for reading document properties
  - When documents are saved, the proper Extended Attribute Type is added
    to the file, this allows recognizing OOo documents even if the
    extension is not added.

  If you are updating from an earlier release, the WPS integration is
    already enabled and working; if WPS integration was enabled for beta
    releases, you need to install the OOoWPS102.WPI package (if not
    already installed) and run
     ?:\OpenOffice.org.3.1.0.Beta\program\ooodoc.cmd
    This script will activate the WPS integration for this release of
    OpenOffice.org 3.1 and remove it from other beta releases.

** Support **

Support specific to the eComStation and OS/2 version can be obtained through the ticketing system at: http://www.ecomstation.com/support/ooo2/

A newsgroup is available for community support at:

news://news.ecomstation.com/ecomstation.support.openoffice
or
http://news.ecomstation.com/thread.php?group=ecomstation.support.openoffice


** Enjoy! **

Best regards,

Serenity Systems International

From: Joachim Benjamins

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