What's new in NeoOffice 2022.7
Sep 6, 2023
- This version of NeoOffice fixes the following bugs:
- Fix for LibreOffice copy/paste bug #49853
- Fix for LibreOffice Japanese keyboard bug #154708
- Fix for crash when spellchecking
New in NeoOffice 2022.6 (Feb 28, 2023)
- NeoOffice can now load Oracle's JDK 19 and higher.
- NeoOffice has VoiceOver support again.
New in NeoOffice 2022.5 (Nov 7, 2022)
- This version fixes the following bugs:
- VoiceOver support has been removed as several completely new crashing bugs were reported soon after we released 2022.4. While our fixes in 2022.4 do detect C++ pointers that LibreOffice has already deleted, our fixes only delayed crashing long enough that NeoOffice would eventually crash in a new set of code locations.
New in NeoOffice 2022.4 (Nov 7, 2022)
- This version fixes the following bugs:
- NeoOffice would crash in several different code locations due to a failure of our new VoiceOver code to detect C++ pointers that LibreOffice has already deleted.
- NeoOffice Professional Edition would not load the latest version Oracle's JDK 17.
New in NeoOffice 2022.3 (Oct 10, 2022)
- This version of NeoOffice fixes the following bug:
- Command-clicking on a hyperlink in a document would display a "fatal error" dialog and then crash if the hyperlink does not point to a local file. This bug was caused by our fix for LibreOffice bug 150873 that was added in the previous release to resolve any macOS aliases in a file path.
New in NeoOffice 2022.2 (Oct 6, 2022)
- This version adds the following new features:
- VoiceOver support: We have finally succeeded in making the LibreOffice accessibility code work within NeoOffice's multithreaded architecture. With this change, NeoOffice now has support for VoiceOver and possibly other macOS accessibility features. Also, we have upgraded the LibreOffice accessibility code to use Apple's newer, more efficient NSAccessibilityElement class to significantly reduce memory usage.
- Native popup menus: NeoOffice's underlying LibreOffice code does not support accessibility in its non-native popup menus so we have replaced most non-native popup menus with native menus.
- Also, this version fixes the following bugs:
- Fixed LibreOffice bug 145563 by adding separate fonts for each font's localized and unlocalized family and font names. This increases the likelihood of matching the family name in documents saved by OpenOffice and LibreOffice to an actual font.
- Fixed LibreOffice bug 150873 by adding code that resolves any macOS aliases in a file path before a file path is opened by NeoOffice's underlying LibreOffice code.
- Fixed a crash when quitting while NeoOffice is reloading a document by delaying document reloading when NeoOffice's quit handler code is running.
New in NeoOffice 2022.1 (Jun 27, 2022)
- This version of NeoOffice fixes the following bugs:
- When using the Sifr icons while in Dark Mode, most Sifr icons were nearly impossible to see against the color of NeoOffice's toolbar background (Issue #5)
- When using mail merge, NeoOffice would unexpectedly quit when transitioning between some of the panels in the Mail Merge Wizard and would fail to save the mail merge results (Issue #8)
- When pasting HTML into a Writer document, NeoOffice would sometimes crash
- When undoing text that has been changed using the Chinese conversion dialog, LibreOffice bug #91995 would occur in NeoOffice
- When dragging images from the Finder, dropping the image into NeoOffice would fail (Issue #6)
- SSL support was missing from Python libraries bundled with NeoOffice Professional Edition (Issue #9)
New in NeoOffice 2022 (May 13, 2022)
- This is the first version of NeoOffice that includes a universal installer and that runs natively on both Silicon and Intel Macs running on the following versions of macOS.
- NeoOffice 2022 is still based on LibreOffice 4.4 so it should have the same features and behaviors as NeoOffice 2017.
- Also, this version fixes the following bugs:
- NeoOffice would hang when changing the font or text size while there is uncommitted text in a Writer comment (Issue #2)
- When running in Dark Mode, changing any cells within the data range of a Calc chart would cause the chart's text color to invert when saving (Issue #3)
New in NeoOffice 2017.33 (Apr 17, 2022)
- When using the hyperlink dialog, LibreOffice bug #86845 would occur in NeoOfficeting a presentation, the macOS menubar and Dock would remain hidden in certain cases when there are document windows in full screen mode.
- This version also includes a backport of LibreOffice's most current password management code. If you have previously set a master password, NeoOffice will prompt you to reset your master password at launch. Resetting your master password will reencode all your saved passwords in a more secure format than in previous versions of NeoOffice.
New in NeoOffice 2017.32 (Dec 12, 2021)
- This version fixes the following bugs:
- After exiting a presentation, the macOS menubar and Dock would remain hidden in certain cases when there are document windows in full screen mode.
- This version also includes a fix for security vulnerability CVE-2021-43527 in Mozilla Foundation's NSS cryptographic library.
New in NeoOffice 2017.31 (Oct 12, 2021)
- When running on macOS Catalina or Big Sur, clicking on the menubar would sometimes cause NeoOffice to crash in Apple's native menubar code.
- When applying a table theme to a table in an Impress document, NeoOffice would crash due to RedHat crashing bug #1255200.
- NeoOffice would ignore any Thunderbird or Firefox certificate paths set in the Options dialog or via the MOZILLA_CERTIFICATE_FOLDER environment variable.
New in NeoOffice 2017.30 (Sep 2, 2021)
- When running on macOS Monterey, NeoOffice's native save dialog would fail so NeoOffice now displays all native dialogs as modal dialog windows instead of sheet windows on macOS Big Sur and higher.
- When running in Dark Mode, NeoOffice would copy text from a Writer comment and would change the automatic color to black when pasted into any Writer comments.
New in NeoOffice 2017.29 (Jul 11, 2021)
- NeoOffice would sommetimes crash when pressing menu shortcut keys.
- NeoOffice would crash when opening certain .docx documents that contain text fields.
- NeoOffice would crash pasting malformed HTML tables into a Writer document.
- NeoOffice would sometimes become unresponsive when spellchecking a large block of text on the application's main thread.
New in NeoOffice 2017.28 (Jun 11, 2021)
- NeoOffice would clear the menubar after selecting the Window > Close menu item.
- NeoOffice would crash when printing gradients in certain charts.
- The border animation around the most recently copied Calc cells would not automatically stop when copying something in a different document or a different application.
- NeoOffice would not display the native macOS tile and tab menu items in the Windows menu.
- NeoOffice would sometimes save a document to the file's previous location if the document was moved or renamed in the macOS Finder while open in NeoOffice.
- NeoOffice would momentarily freeze while opening or closing a document when running the Mac App Store version of NeoOffice on macOS Big Sur.
- NeoOffice would crash due to the LibreOffice bugs #70062, #90606, #100635, #101178, #107786, #108305, #111522,, #114710 #125824, and #128073.
New in NeoOffice 2017.27 (Apr 5, 2021)
- NeoOffice would sometimes crash when opening certain .docx files.
- NeoOffice would sometimes crash while editing certain Writer and Calc documents with unexpectedly null attributes.
New in NeoOffice 2017.26 (Mar 4, 2021)
- NeoOffice would crash if a modal alert dialog is displayed while launching.
- NeoOffice would fail to create autorecovery files for certain password protected documents due to LibreOffice bugs #93389 and #118639.
- NeoOffice would sometimes crash when changing the text direction while editing a cell in a Calc document.
- NeoOffice would sometimes crash when connecting to the macOS Contacts possibly due to LibreOffice bug #111634.
- When running on a Mac with Retina display, NeoOffice would scale the resolution of some images with an alpha channel down to the resolution of a non-Retina display.
- NeoOffice would sometimes crash due to RedHat bug #1301346.
- When pasting to a Calc sheet that is completely selected, NeoOffice would sometimes freeze due to LibreOffice bugs #60021 and #96568.
New in NeoOffice 2017.25 (Feb 10, 2021)
- When running on macOS Big Sur, NeoOffice would sometimes freeze for a few seconds when clicking on the menubar or pressing menu shortcut keys.
- When "Prefer tabs when opening documents" is set to "Always" in the macOS System Preferences application, NeoOffice would fail to release a native tab's memory when closing the last two native tabs within a window.
- When "Prefer tabs when opening documents" is set to "Always" in the macOS System Preferences application, NeoOffice would sometimes move and/or resize an existing window after opening a document in a new native tab.
- NeoOffice would crash when changing the page style in certain text documents due to LibreOffice bug #107126.
- NeoOffice would crash when deleting certain combinations of spreadsheet rows and columns due to LibreOffice bug #108788.
- Certain .doc and .docx files would show blinking text when opened in NeoOffice due to LibreOffice bug #92045.
New in NeoOffice 2017.24 (Dec 17, 2020)
- When running on macOS Big Sur, NeoOffice would freeze for several seconds when switching to a different document window.
- After each automatic backup of a Writer document, NeoOffice would automatically scroll back to the cursor.
- When running on macOS Big Sur, NeoOffice would fail to load many extensions that worked in earlier versions of NeoOffice.
New in NeoOffice 2017.23 (Jul 28, 2020)
- This version fixes the following bugs:
- When running on macOS Big Sur, NeoOffice would crash on launch.
New in NeoOffice 2017.22 (Dec 30, 2019)
- NeoOffice would sometimes crash when connecting or disconnecting a display due to our fix for LibreOffice bug 85499.
New in NeoOffice 2017.21 (Dec 19, 2019)
- NeoOffice windows originally opened on a non-Retina display would not display at full resolution when moved to a Retina display due to LibreOffice bug #85499.
- NeoOffice would display Reiwa era dates as Heisei era dates when using a Japanese date format.
New in NeoOffice 2017.20 (Dec 19, 2019)
- NeoOffice would fail to load many extensions that worked in earlier versions of NeoOffice.
- NeoOffice would fail to print or export to PDF nested tables in Writer documents due to LibreOffice bug #88453.
New in NeoOffice 2017.19 (Sep 10, 2019)
- This version fixes the following bugs:
- NeoOffice would crash due to LibreOffice bugs #97879, #101821, #103063, #108123, and #113230.
New in NeoOffice 2017.18 (Jul 5, 2019)
- NeoOffice would crash due to LibreOffice bugs #98868, #106131, and #104162.
- NeoOffice would crash when dragging text within a spreadsheet.
- NeoOffice would crash when closing a spreadsheet document.
- NeoOffice would crash when moving a table in a footnote in a word processing document.
New in NeoOffice 2017.17 (May 6, 2019)
- NeoOffice would crash when saving a .docx file that contains complex tables.
- NeoOffice would not catch many common grammar errors that Apple's TextEdit application catches.
- NeoOffice would crash when executing certain macros attached to spreadsheet cells.
New in NeoOffice 2017.16 (Mar 25, 2019)
- While another application was using a lot of CPU, NeoOffice would freeze for several seconds when saving some Calc documents.
- If the "jump to the spot that's clicked" preference was selected in the System Preferences application, clicking on a scrollbar in NeoOffice would only jump to the next page.
- While running on macOS Mojave, NeoOffice would crash when switching into or out of Dark Mode while redrawing native controls.
- While running on macOS Mojave, NeoOffice would crash when closing the popover attached to a document window's titlebar.
- NeoOffice would crash due to LibreOffice bug #102233.
New in NeoOffice 2017.15 (Dec 30, 2018)
- NeoOffice would crash due to LibreOffice bugs #57550 and #66496.
- NeoOffice would crash when selecting the Load Styles option in the Styles and Formatting panel in a Writer document.
- NeoOffice would crash printing a Writer document if printing comments had been enabled in the Comments section of the Printer Options dialog.
- NeoOffice would crash quitting if a database that uses Calc files for its tables was open.
New in NeoOffice 2017.14 (Nov 21, 2018)
- When running in macOS Dark Mode, NeoOffice would display text in a selected tab in an inactive window as white instead of dark gray.
- NeoOffice would crash when printing certain documents in Writer.
New in NeoOffice 2017.13 (Sep 25, 2018)
- This version fixes the following bugs:
- When running on macOS Mojave, NeoOffice would freeze when dragging.
- NeoOffice would not display any of the Command-Option menu shortcuts that are in NeoOffice's underlying LibreOffice 4.4 code.
- When running in macOS Dark Mode, NeoOffice would display the incorrect text color while editing a comment in a Calc document that was previous saved by LibreOffice, by OpenOffice, or by NeoOffice not running in Dark Mode.
New in NeoOffice 2017.12 (Aug 21, 2018)
- Fixes the following bugs:
- NeoOffice would sometimes crash when printing a lengthy document in Writer.
- NeoOffice would display the incorrect color in numerous cases when running on macOS Mojave.
New in NeoOffice 2017.11 (Aug 21, 2018)
- Fixes the following bugs:
- NeoOffice would draw some native controls (such as checkboxes, radio buttons, comboboxes, and listboxes) as active when NeoOffice was not the active application when running on macOS Mojave.
- NeoOffice would use white as the background color for toolbars and popup menus instead of light gray when running on macOS Mojave.
- NeoOffice would crash due to LibreOffice bugs #94225, #103359, #103788, and #108124.
- NeoOffice would sometimes crash when displaying the Navigator window in Writer.
- NeoOffice would sometimes crash when starting a slideshow in Impress.
- NeoOffice would sometimes crash when opening or editing Writer documents.
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New in NeoOffice 2017.10 (Jun 17, 2018)
- Fixes the following bugs:
- NeoOffice would sometimes crash when opening and saving Impress documents
- NeoOffice would sometimes crash when scrolling in a Calc document
- NeoOffice would sometimes crash when quitting
- NeoOffice would display a native save dialog that would default to saving to a .odt, .ods, or .odp file when saving .docx, .xlsx, and .pptx files
- NeoOffice would sometimes crash when copying a table in a Writer document
- NeoOffice would sometimes crash when building the list of available fonts for display in a popup window
- NeoOffice would sometimes crash when loading a chart with the GL3D style in a Calc document
- NeoOffice would sometimes crash when closing an Impress document
- NeoOffice would sometimes crash when selecting the Format > Paragraph menu item in an Impress document
- NeoOffice would fail to draw native buttons and listboxes when running on macOS Mojava
- NeoOffice would would draw partially transparent system colors incorrectly when running on macOS Mojava
- NeoOffice would sometimes crash when saving Writer documents
- NeoOffice would sometimes crash when editing the page header or footer in Calc documents
- NeoOffice would crash due to LibreOffice bug #90357
- NeoOffice would leak memory due to several LibreOffice bugs
New in NeoOffice 2017.9 (May 14, 2018)
- Fixes the following bugs:
- NeoOffice would sometimes crash when pasting HTML tables into a Writer document
- NeoOffice would sometimes crash when moving the cursor in a Writer document
- NeoOffice would sometimes crash when clicking on a video while in a slideshow
- NeoOffice needed three LibreOffice security patches for security vulnerabilities that affect several types of documents
- NeoOffice would sometimes crash when closing a Calc document
- NeoOffice would sometimes crash when Arabic text is set to full width alignment.
- NeoOffice would not display any kashida glyphs when Arabic text is set to full width alignment
- NeoOffice would sometimes crash when opening SVG image files
- NeoOffice would sometimes crash when selecting the Format > Page menu item
- NeoOffice would sometimes crash when pasting content copied from NeoOffice
- NeoOffice would sometimes leave thin horizontal lines in a Calc document when running on a Retina display after moving the selected cell back and forth off the right or left edges of the window
- NeoOffice would sometimes crash when printing
- NeoOffice would open a new Writer document when pressing the Command-N keys instead of opening the document type checked in the NeoOffice > Open at Launch menu
- NeoOffice would leak memory due to several LibreOffice bugs
New in NeoOffice 2017.8 (Apr 10, 2018)
- Fixes the following bugs:
- NeoOffice would sometimes crash when opening a word processing document
- NeoOffice would sometimes crash when opening a .docx document
- NeoOffice would sometimes crash when printing
- NeoOffice would sometimes crash when opening HWP word processing files
- NeoOffice would sometimes crash when selecting an image in a Writer document
- NeoOffice would sometimes crash when loading your locale preferences
- NeoOffice would sometimes crash when closing the Printer Options dialog
- NeoOffice would sometimes crash when editing sections in a Writer document
- NeoOffice would leak memory due to several LibreOffice bugs
- NeoOffice would sometimes crash when re-paginating a Writer document
- NeoOffice would sometimes crash when saving a Writer document
New in NeoOffice 2017.7 (Feb 23, 2018)
- Fixes the following bugs:
- NeoOffice would sometimes crash when loading extensions that have been imported from older versions of NeoOffice
- NeoOffice would sometimes crash when opening WPG drawing files
- NeoOffice would sometimes crash when scrolling using a mouse wheel
- NeoOffice would sometimes crash when dragging a table in a presentation document
- NeoOffice would sometimes crash when printing
- NeoOffice would sometimes crash when undoing or redoing changes in a Writer document
- NeoOffice would sometimes crash when deleting a form field
- NeoOffice needed a LibreOffice security patch for a security vulnerability that affects Calc documents
- NeoOffice would leak memory due to several LibreOffice bugs
- NeoOffice would crash due to LibreOffice bug #108887
- NeoOffice would sometimes crash when dragging comments in a presentation document
- NeoOffice would sometimes crash when opening a spreadsheet document
- NeoOffice would not allow editing of comments in presentation documents
New in NeoOffice 2017.6 (Jan 12, 2018)
- Fixes the following bugs:
- NeoOffice would leak memory due to LibreOffice bug #88006
- NeoOffice would crash due to LibreOffice bug #71097
- NeoOffice would sometimes crash when undoing or redoing changes in cells that contain comments in a Calc document
- NeoOffice would sometimes crash when autosaving documents
- NeoOffice would sometimes crash when opening T602 image files
- NeoOffice would crash due to LibreOffice bug #73294
- NeoOffice would sometimes fail to save .docx files due to LibreOffice bugs #99273 and #102479
- NeoOffice would crash due to LibreOffice bug #108612
- NeoOffice would not display bullets instead of spaces when the View > Non-printing Characters menu item is checked in Writer
New in NeoOffice 2017.5 (Nov 28, 2017)
- Fixes the following bugs:
- NeoOffice would sometimes crash when copying bookmarks in a Writer document
- NeoOffice would sometimes crash when a popup menu closed
- NeoOffice would sometimes crash when opening a document that contains remote images
- NeoOffice would crash due to LibreOffice bug #113591
- NeoOffice would crash due to LibreOffice bug #92963
- NeoOffice would sometimes crash when copying cells that contain comments in a Calc document
- NeoOffice would sometimes crash when scrolling using a mouse wheel
- NeoOffice would sometimes crash when selecting the File > Open menu item in a Writer document
New in NeoOffice 2017.4 (Nov 3, 2017)
- Fixes the following bugs:
- NeoOffice would crash while editing Writer and Calc documents in 3 different places in NeoOffice's underlying LibreOffice 4.4 code
- NeoOffice would crash due to RedHat bug #1409634
- NeoOffice would sometimes crash when when importing PDF documents
- NeoOffice would sometimes crash when crash when scrolling within a popup menu
- NeoOffice would sometimes crash when editing a table in a Writer document
- NeoOffice would crash due to LibreOffice bug #107975
New in NeoOffice 2017.3 (Sep 29, 2017)
- Fixes the following bugs:
- NeoOffice would would sometimes crash when quitting
- NeoOffice would horizontally stretch grayscale images when exporting to PDF
- NeoOffice would sometimes crash when saving JPEG images
- NeoOffice would sometimes crash when entering text using some of the macOS Asian keyboard layouts
- NeoOffice would crash when expanding a list of macros in some of the macro dialogs
- NeoOffice would sometimes crash when closing a window after dragging text or other objects within the window
- NeoOffice would sometimes crash during execution of a timer in the application's native event dispatching thread
New in NeoOffice 2017.2 (Sep 11, 2017)
- Fixes the following bugs:
- Dragging a slide within a presentation's "Slides" panel would fail
- None of the buttons in the Line Spacing toolbar button's popup window could be selected
New in NeoOffice 2017.1 (Sep 1, 2017)
- Fixes the following bugs:
- If the "Always save as" preference had been changed to .docx, .xlsx, or .pptx before upgrading to NeoOffice 2017, NeoOffice could not save files after upgrading to NeoOffice 2017
- When exporting as PDF, NeoOffice 2017 would use the incorrect symbol font for bullets and other symbols in the PDF file
New in NeoOffice 2017 (Aug 28, 2017)
- This version is a new version of NeoOffice that is based on LibreOffice. While previous versions of NeoOffice were based on the OpenOffice code, NeoOffice 2017 is based on the LibreOffice 4.4 code.
- We switched to the LibreOffice 4.4 code because the LibreOffice code is able to open and save Microsoft Office .docx, .xlsx, and .pptx documents with fewer errors than the OpenOffice code.
New in NeoOffice 2017 Beta Patch 1 (Jul 24, 2017)
- New feature:
- Native macOS window tabs
- This patch also fixes the following bugs:
- NeoOffice would crash after closing a Calc document after copying cells containing a comment
- When running on macOS High Sierra, the default file name would always be set to "Untitled" when exporting as PDF
- When running on macOS High Sierra, emojis would be replaced by rectangles when exporting to PDF
- When running on macOS High Sierra, NeoOffice would fail to open files on a remote SMB volume
- NeoOffice would fail to open a file on a remote AFP volume when the file was open in NeoOffice on another machine
- When running in full screen mode, exiting the versions browser would not repaint all of the document
- When running on macOS High Sierra in full screen mode, exiting the versions browser would resize the window to be slightly shorter than the screen height
- When running on macOS High Sierra in full screen mode, selecting the View > Full Screen menu item would set the window height to zero
- When running a slideshow immediately after moving the presentation window to a different monitor, NeoOffice would display the slideshow underneath the presentation controller
- When the font size combobox's arrow was clicked, NeoOffice would display the popup menu over part of the combobox
New in NeoOffice 2017 Beta (May 3, 2017)
- NeoOffice 2017 Beta is a new version of NeoOffice that is based on LibreOffice. While previous versions of NeoOffice were based on the OpenOffice code, NeoOffice 2017 Beta is based on the LibreOffice 4.4 code.
- We decided to use the LibreOffice 4.4 code for NeoOffice 2017 Beta because the LibreOffice 4.4 code is able to open and save Microsoft Office .docx, .xlsx, and .pptx documents with far fewer errors than the OpenOffice code. While we initially looked at using the LibreOffice 5.x code for NeoOffice 2017 Beta, LibreOffice 5.x contains numerous changes in menu items, toolbars, and dialogs. Since menu items, toolbars, and dialogs in LibreOffice 4.4 more closely match those in OpenOffice, we chose to use the LibreOffice 4.4 code to make upgrading to NeoOffice 2017 Beta as smooth as possible for NeoOffice and OpenOffice users.
New in NeoOffice 2015.12 (Mar 1, 2017)
- Fixes the following bugs:
- NeoOffice would crash if you started printing a document and then immediately closed the document before the print job finished
- When running NeoOffice on macOS Sierra, NeoOffice would crash when printing documents that contain EPS images
New in NeoOffice 2015.11 (Dec 12, 2016)
- Fixes the following bugs:
- NeoOffice would fail to change the fill color of a shape in a Writer document after changing the fill color in the toolbar
- NeoOffice would sometimes crash when dragging a table within an Impress document
- NeoOffice would sometimes crash when running a print job on OS X Yosemite
- NeoOffice would sometimes crash when cancelling both dialogs that appear after selecting the File > Printer Settings menu item in a Writer document
- When opening a document that contains linked OLE objects, NeoOffice would fail to display the "Update all links?" dialog and would automatically reload all linked OLE objects
New in NeoOffice 2015.10 (Oct 14, 2016)
- Fixes the following bugs:
- When selecting a menu item while running autospellcheck, NeoOffice would sometimes freeze until autospellcheck finished spellchecking the entire document
- NeoOffice would crash or hang when opening some .rtf files that contain data that does not conform to Microsoft's Rich Text Format specification
- NeoOffice would take 20 - 30 minutes to open spreadsheet documents that contain thousands of unique cell styles
- NeoOffice would sometimes freeze when unlocking a Dropbox or iCloud document in the document's titlebar popup window
- When running NeoOffice on macOS Sierra, both horizontal and vertical scrolling using the trackpad was several times more sensitive than on earlier versions of OS X
- When running NeoOffice on macOS Sierra, NeoOffice would crash when creating a database using the Database Wizard
- NeoOffice would crash if you pressed the Command-w keys while a print dialog was displayed
- When running NeoOfice on macOS Sierra, macOS would display an internal error dialog on some computers after selecting a menu item in NeoOffice
New in NeoOffice 2015.9 (Sep 1, 2016)
- Fixes the following bugs:
- When opening a document that contains linked images or files while in full screen mode, NeoOffice would display a modal dialog behind the full screen window and would appear to be frozen
- When displaying a presentation document while in full screen mode, NeoOffice would sometimes not use the whole screen and would leave an unused blank space on the screen
- When running a slideshow while in full screen mode, NeoOffice would exit full screen mode at the end of the slideshow
- NeoOffice would sometimes crash when selecting a menu item
- NeoOffice would leak a small amount of memory when dragging text or images
New in NeoOffice 2015.8.1 (Jul 29, 2016)
- Fixes the following bug:
- NeoOffice would crash when using any Java-based features with Oracle's most recent versions of Java (version 1.8.0_100 or later)
New in NeoOffice 2015.8 (Jul 22, 2016)
- This version of NeoOffice fixes the following bugs:
- NeoOffice would sometimes crash when quitting
- NeoOffice would sometimes crash when changing the shape of a poly polygon object
New in NeoOffice 2015.7 (Jun 24, 2016)
- This version of NeoOffice fixes the following bugs:
- NeoOffice would sometimes draw default buttons as unpressed, non-default buttons
- NeoOffice would sometimes hang when selecting the File > Browse All Versions menu item
New in NeoOffice 2015.6 (Apr 29, 2016)
- This version of NeoOffice fixes the following bugs:
- NeoOffice would hang when dragging a pivot table onto a chart
- NeoOffice would crash when double-clicking on a cell in a pivot table
New in NeoOffice 2015.5 (Mar 26, 2016)
- Fixes the following bug:
- When opening OpenOffice or LibreOffice documents, NeoOffice would display the wrong fonts for light and semi-bold text. For light text, NeoOffice would use the correct font but with the font's regular variant. For semi-bold text, NeoOffice would also use the correct font but with the font's bold variant.
New in NeoOffice 2015.5 Classic Edition (Mar 25, 2016)
- Fixes the following bug:
- When opening OpenOffice or LibreOffice documents, NeoOffice would display the wrong fonts for light and semi-bold text. For light text, NeoOffice would use the correct font but with the font's regular variant. For semi-bold text, NeoOffice would also use the correct font but with the font's bold variant.
New in NeoOffice 2015.4 (Feb 3, 2016)
- When pressing and holding a vowel key, NeoOffice would repeatedly enter the unaccented character even after OS X displayed a list of accented characters
- NeoOffice would draw native progress bars significantly slower on OS X El Capitan than on older OS X versions
- NeoOffice would display the Find dialog with a larger than normal height
- NeoOffice would hang when opening an .odb file from an icon in the OS X Dock
- When printing envelopes, NeoOffice would incorrectly rotate the envelope 90 degrees
New in NeoOffice 2015.3 (Dec 28, 2015)
- Fixes the following bugs:
- When exporting a document to PDF, NeoOffice would not include any characters that use the Apple Color Emoji font.
- In compressed and stretched horizontal text, NeoOffice would compress or stretch the text less than the text's Scale width setting.
- In compressed and stretched vertical text, NeoOffice would compress or stretch Chinese, Japanese, and Korean characters horizontally instead of vertically.
- In fontwork objects that have multiple lines of text, NeoOffice would draw all but the first line of text too far to the right.
- NeoOffice would sometimes hang when opening .odb files.
- When using an 800 x 600 or smaller monitor, NeoOffice would cut off the buttons at the bottom of tall dialogs.
New in NeoOffice 2015.2 (Nov 29, 2015)
- Fixes the following bugs:
- When running in full screen mode on OS X El Capitan, NeoOffice would display some dialogs and dropdown lists behind the current document
- NeoOffice would draw any text that has its "scaling the width" setting set to greater than 100% wider than normal
- NeoOffice would generate an empty mail merge if you select the "From:" field in the Mail Merge dialog
- NeoOffice would hang for a minute or longer when updating links in spreadsheets
New in NeoOffice 2015.1 (Nov 3, 2015)
- NeoOffice would ignore most keystrokes when typing many common Indic language words.
- Any color settings for changes in Writer documents that were set to By author or [None] would be unset when quitting NeoOffice.
- NeoOffice would crash when opening LibreOffice HTML files that contain images.
- NeoOffice would crash when rendering Indic characters using the "Arial Unicode MS" font.
New in NeoOffice 2015 (Sep 17, 2015)
- Fixes the following bugs:
- After starting a slide show from a presentation document that is in full screen mode, exiting the slide show would disable the OS X menubar until the presentation document was closed
- When opening a document while in full screen mode that contains linked but not embedded images or OLE objects, NeoOffice would shrink the newly opened full screen mode window
- When saving certain documents that contain embedded images or OLE objects, NeoOffice would would fail to save one or more of the embedded images or OLE objects
- This version also fixes the follow bug. Special thanks go to the engineers at LibreOffice.org who identified and provided a fix for this bug:
- NeoOffice would crash when opening certain Microsoft Word .doc documents
New in NeoOffice 2015 Classic Edition (Sep 17, 2015)
- NeoOffice 2015 Classic Edition has all of the same features as NeoOffice 3.4.1. Specifically, this version of NeoOffice contains all of the features that are in NeoOffice 3.4.1 plus the following new features:
- NeoOffice is now a 64 bit application instead of a 32 bit application so it does not have any of issues that we found when running NeoOffice 3.4.1 on OS X El Capitan Beta
- NeoOffice now uses Oracle's Java SE Development Kit (JDK) so Base users can view and edit NeoOffice, OpenOffice, and LibreOffice database files without having to install Apple's obsolete version of Java
- In addition to these new features, this version of NeoOffice fixes the following bugs:
- After starting a slide show from a presentation document that is in full screen mode, exiting the slide show would disable the OS X menubar until the presentation document was closed
- When opening a document while in full screen mode that contains linked but not embedded images or OLE objects, NeoOffice would shrink the newly opened full screen mode window
- When saving certain documents that contain embedded images or OLE objects, NeoOffice would would fail to save one or more of the embedded images or OLE objects
- This version also fixes the follow security vulnerability. Special thanks go to the security researchers and engineers at LibreOffice.org who identified and provided a fix for this security vulnerability:
- NeoOffice would crash when opening certain Microsoft Word .doc documents
New in NeoOffice 2014.13 (Aug 5, 2015)
- This version of NeoOffice fixes the following bugs. Special thanks go to the security researchers and engineers at LibreOffice.org who identified and provided fixes for these bugs:
- NeoOffice no longer crashes when opening some Hangul WP 97 .hwp documents.
- NeoOffice no longer crashes when opening some older Microsoft Word .doc documents.
- NeoOffice now asks the user for permission before updating links in a document. In previous versions of NeoOffice, NeoOffice would silently update links in some documents.
- El Capitan Public Beta users: this version also fixes the following bugs:
- Opening a new window while in full screen mode no longer causes NeoOffice to hang
- Typing text in a full screen mode window no longer fails
New in NeoOffice 2014.12 (Jul 1, 2015)
- Includes significantly faster handling of lengthy, 100+ page documents with tables.
- Previous versions of NeoOffice could temporarily hang when opening, editing, saving, printing, exporting to PDF, or previewing lengthy documents with tables. This hanging was due to NeoOffice recalculating the document's page breaks and table cell sizes. To avoid such hanging, the NeoOffice engineers have made the following changes:
- When opening, editing, or saving Writer documents, NeoOffice now recalculates page breaks and table cell sizes in the background in small chunks over the course of a few minutes. By deferring the recalculation, you no longer need to wait for the recalculation to finish before you can continue editing your document.
- When printing, exporting to PDF, or previewing Writer documents, NeoOffice now displays a dialog if recalculating page breaks and table cell sizes takes more than 30 seconds. This dialog gives you the option to cancel the recalculation. If you cancel the recalculation, NeoOffice uses rough guesses to set page breaks and table cells and immediately proceeds to printing, exporting to PDF, or previewing your document.
New in NeoOffice 2014.11 (May 22, 2015)
- NeoOffice no longer pauses after several swipes. NeoOffice's swipe event handling code would sometimes pause for a moment if the user swiped several times in a row.
- Swiping or moving the scroll wheel very slowly will now move only a single line or row at a time. Before, NeoOffice would randomly jump 2 or 3 lines when swiping or moving the scroll wheel very slowly.
- When swiping or moving the scroll wheel rapidly, the page or row number tooltip no longer flickers rapidly. The flickering tooltip was caused by NeoOffice's underlying OpenOffice code closing and reopening the tooltip after each swipe or scrolling event.
New in NeoOffice 2014.10 (Apr 17, 2015)
- This version of NeoOffice fixes the following bugs:
- When running on OS X Yosemite, NeoOffice would sometimes draw Arabic characters on top of each other
- One of the bug fixes that we added in NeoOffice 2014.6 would cause NeoOffice to sometimes scroll slower than normal
- NeoOffice would crash when entering data into dBase database tables that have a unique index
New in NeoOffice 2014.9 (Mar 17, 2015)
- Fixes the following bugs:
- NeoOffice would sometimes crash when quitting
- When saving .ods files that were originally created in OpenOffice or LibreOffice, NeoOffice would require the user to reset the password for each protected sheet
- When clicking on cells in .ods files that were originally created in LibreOffice, NeoOffice would fail to select any cells in protected sheets
- NeoOffice would draw punctuation characters in Japanese vertical text in the wrong position and with horizontal font glyphs
- When querying for null values in spreadsheet data sources, empty cells would be treated as if they were not null
- When sending a mail merge to a file instead of to the printer, NeoOffice would fail to create the mail merge file
New in NeoOffice 2014.8 (Feb 24, 2015)
- NeoOffice 3.x, OpenOffice, and LibreOffice users: before you buy NeoOffice, we recommend that you click on the "NeoOffice support" link and read the list of changes.
- This version fixes the following bug when running NeoOffice on OS X Yosemite: when exporting a document to PDF, all text in the document that uses a Type 1 font would not be displayed in the exported PDF.
- This version also fixes the following bug: if a user had any documents opened for more than a day, OS X would sometimes delete NeoOffice's temporary files. This, in turn, would cause saving any open documents to fail until NeoOffice was relaunched.
New in NeoOffice 2014.7 (Jan 31, 2015)
- Includes fixes for the following bugs:
- When opening a new document while in full screen mode, the new document window would be displayed as a normal window instead of a full screen window
- After closing a full screen document window, in certain cases all windows would not be visible and only the active document's menubar would be visible
- When in a Calc document, merged cells could not be selected using the Shift and arrow keys
- When in a Calc document, editing a cell that has been scrolled off the edge of the document window would cause the cell's formula to be drawn in the wrong position
- When in a Calc document, the NeoOffice > Services menu would use text from the last selected combobox instead of the currently selected cell
- When in a Writer document, the NeoOffice > Services menu would use the last selected text even after unselecting all text
New in NeoOffice 2014.6 (Dec 19, 2014)
- Fixes for the following bugs when running NeoOffice on OS X Yosemite:
- When editing a table in a Base database, NeoOffice 3.4.1 would occasionally hang
- When clicking on a hyperlink that points to a file, NeoOffice 2014.5 would fail to open the file
- When using a right-to-left (RTL) language such as Hebrew or Arabic, text would be drawn on top of the drop down button in comboboxes and popup buttons
- NeoOffice 3.x, OpenOffice, and LibreOffice users: before you buy NeoOffice, we recommend that you click on the "NeoOffice support" link and read the list of changes.
New in NeoOffice 2014.5 (Oct 15, 2014)
- This version of NeoOffice includes fixes for the following bugs:
- After saving an .odp document, all bullet characters would be hidden when the document was reopened in NeoOffice, OpenOffice, or LibreOffice
- After saving certain .odt documents, some pages would be hidden when the document was reopened in NeoOffice, OpenOffice, or LibreOffice
- After opening a document that contains a link to an unreadable or nonexistent .ods document, clicking on the linked .ods document would cause NeoOffice to crash
New in NeoOffice 2014.3 (Sep 23, 2014)
- This version of NeoOffice adds support for OS X Yosemite's new iCloud Drive feature. We have made signficant changes to NeoOffice's native file locking code to safely coordinate opening, saving, and deleting files in iCloud Drive, in Dropbox, or on a shared volume.
- This version of NeoOffice also includes fixes for the following bugs:
- NeoOffice would randomly crash when checking if a document has been moved or renamed
- NeoOffice would only display the first image in many .docx, .xlsx, and .pptx documents
New in NeoOffice 2014.2 (Aug 4, 2014)
- This version of NeoOffice adds improved rendering of Calibri and Cambria fonts in Microsoft Office documents. Since many NeoOffice users do not have these fonts because they are only available from Microsoft, this version of NeoOffice automatically uses Apple's Gill Sans font when Calibri is not installed and uses Apple's Times New Roman font when Cambria is not installed.
New in NeoOffice 3.4.1 Patch 7 (Aug 2, 2014)
- Improved compatibility with Mac OS X 10.10 “Yosemite” Beta: NeoOffice no longer opens a warning page in your web browser upon launch when running on OS X Yosemite. NeoOffice now uses the correct text and background colors for buttons, checkboxes, radio buttons, and popup menus when running on OS X Yosemite. Improved rendering of Calibri and Cambria fonts in Microsoft Office documents when Calibri and Cambria fonts are not installed. Changed the order of document types in “Save As” dialogues to group Microsoft Office 2008/2011 document types with other Microsoft Office document types.
New in NeoOffice 2014.1 (Jul 22, 2014)
- This version of NeoOffice adds automatic grammar checking. When you spellcheck a document in Writer, NeoOffice now automatically does grammar checking using the OS X grammar checker.
- NeoOffice is now a 64-bit application. Most NeoOffice 2013.x users should not notice any changes in this version. However, the small number of users that use third-party ODBC drivers and native extensions will need to obtain 64 bit versions of their third-party ODBC drivers and native extensions. Go to http://neowiki.neooffice.org/index.php/Configuring_MySQL_using_ODBC_and_NeoOffice_Secure_Edition to see steps for configuring MySQL's ODBC driver to work with NeoOffice 2014.1.
New in NeoOffice 3.4.1 Patch 6 (Jul 17, 2014)
- NeoOffice will now automatically check for grammar errors in Writer documents using the Mac OS X grammar checker when spell-checking, and users no longer need to install an OpenOffice grammar checking extension. An overview of this new feature is available in this NeoWiki article: http://neowiki.neooffice.org/index.php/NeoOffice_2014.1_New_Features#Native_OS_X_grammar_checking .
New in NeoOffice 3.4.1 Patch 5 (Jun 13, 2014)
- Saving a document is no longer several times slower than normal when saving immediately after trying to quit NeoOffice. NeoOffice will no longer hang after selecting the File :: Browse All Versions menu when running on OS X 10.10 Yosemite.
- Note: 3.4.1 Patch-5 requires a full installation of NeoOffice 3.4.1 and will not install on any version of NeoOffice 3.3 or NeoOffice 3.4.1 Beta. Patch-5 includes all fixes and additions of previous patches.
New in NeoOffice 3.4.1 Patch 4 (May 30, 2014)
- NeoOffice no longer uses obsolete Mac OS X functions to prevent computer sleep during a slideshow.
- Note: 3.4.1 Patch-4 requires a full installation of NeoOffice 3.4.1 and will not install on any version of NeoOffice 3.3 or NeoOffice 3.4.1 Beta. Patch-4 includes all fixes and additions of previous patches.
New in NeoOffice 3.4.1 Patch 3 (May 17, 2014)
- Playing videos in a document would sometimes cause NeoOffice to crash
- Exporting as PDF would cause NeoOffice to display the wrong name in the document's titlebar
New in NeoOffice 3.4.1 Patch 2 (Apr 16, 2014)
- NeoOffice no longer sets the document name to "Untitled" in the document window's titlebar during autosaving.
- Fixed an issue where NeoOffice would sometimes display an error dialog after saving when the user moved or renamed the document while it was open
- NeoOffice will no longer insert an empty line or row after each line or row of data when pasting text that has Windows style line breaks.
New in NeoOffice 3.4.1 Patch 1 (Mar 31, 2014)
- Fixes the slow scrolling bug when swiping on the trackpad that some users found soon after the NeoOffice 3.4.1 release.
- In addition to the slow scrolling bug, NeoOffice 3.4.1 Patch 1 fixes the following bugs:
- NeoOffice would occassionally hang when dragging an image within a particular Writer document
- NeoOffice would crash when pressing an arrow key in an empty field in Base's query design window
- NeoOffice would crash when opening a particular Writer file with comments
- NeoOffice would crash when opening a particular .svg image file with gradients
- NeoOffice would create two duplicate versions instead of one version in the Mac OS X Versions browser each time a document was saved
- NeoOffice would display an uncloseable window if the document window was closed while in the Mac OS X Versions browser
- NeoOffice would sometimes display a blank popover window when clicking on the downward arrow icon next to the document name in a document window's titlebar while running on Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks
New in NeoOffice 3.4.1 (Dec 30, 2013)
- Opening certain .docx and .pptx documents would cause NeoOffice to crash
- Changing any NeoOffice Writer :: Print settings in the Options dialog would disable printing of word processing documents
- Zooming using the trackpad would cause the current document to zoom in and out too rapidly
New in NeoOffice 3.4 (Oct 23, 2013)
- This release includes all the fixes for bugs that we found during our several months of Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks testing.
- In addition to fixes for Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks, NeoOffice 3.4 includes the following new features:
- New Cocoa code for buttons, scrollbars, comboboxes, tabs, and other native controls
- Automatic installation of Arabic, Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish language packs
New in NeoOffice 3.3 Patch 10 (Sep 24, 2013)
- When opening a new document or displaying a dialog, NeoOffice would allocate but never release some memory which would eventually cause excessive memory usage
- NeoOffice would sometimes crash when rapidly closing several documents via pressing the window titlebar's red "close window" button
- Sometimes when dragging text or images within a NeoOffice document, the mouse had to be clicked a second time to end dragging and insert the dragged content
- NeoOffice would crash when importing certain PDF files into a Draw document
New in NeoOffice 3.3 Patch 9 (Aug 6, 2013)
- Soon after we released NeoOffice 3.3 Patch 8, we found that some of the special code that NeoOffice uses when running on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard was inadvertently disabled.
- Although this bug does not affect users running Mac OS X 10.7 Lion and higher, for users running Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard this bug would cause such things as native scrollbar arrows to not work and content to be drawn behind the native window growbox.
- Since a significant number of our users are running Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and this bug can be very annoying for those users, we have fixed this bug and included the fix in NeoOffice 3.3 Patch 9.
- If you have already downloaded NeoOffice 3.3 Patch 8 and you are running Mac OS X 10.7 or higher, you will not see any changes and there is no harm if you do not install this patch. Users running Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, however, are encouraged to install this patch.
New in NeoOffice 3.3 Patch 8 (Aug 5, 2013)
- NeoOffice would immediately quit after launch when running on any of the Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks developer preview releases
- NeoOffice would sometimes crash when closing the Printer Settings dialog that is displayed after selecting the File :: Printer settings menu
- NeoOffice would crash when trying to access the Apple Address Book if the user is running Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion and the user has chosen to deny NeoOffice access to the Apple Address Book
- The menubar would sometimes have no menus after opening a document in the File :: Recent Documents menu
- PDF files created using the Export to PDF feature from documents containing Apple's Bangla font would not display text correctly in Adobe Acrobat Reader
- Strikethrough of text would not display when the strikethrough character is set to "X" or "/"
New in NeoOffice 3.3 Patch 7 (May 29, 2013)
- Fixed a crash that could occur when using the trackpad scrolling gesture.
- Fixed abnormally slow saving to remote volumes that are not in the machine's local network
New in NeoOffice 3.3 Patch 6 (Apr 23, 2013)
- Fixed a crash that could occur when opening .docx files with a specific set of formatting attributes.
- Fixed a possible crash when zooming a document.
- Fixed an issue that moved NeoOffice's backmost window to the front when scrolling using the mouse wheel while another application is active.
- Added the ability to open LibreOffice password protected files.
New in NeoOffice 3.3 Patch 5 (Mar 7, 2013)
- Fixed:
- NeoOffice would not launch when the user's home folder is on a remote volume
- When opening .docx files with tables, NeoOffice would missize table cells that span multiple rows or columns
- New:
- Status bar displays word count for Writer documents
- Color palettes are automatically set to the document's selected text color
New in NeoOffice 3.3 Patch 4 (Jan 22, 2013)
- Includes fixes for the following critical bugs:
- In certain cases, the NeoOffice menus in the menubar would become unresponsive
- Printing certain documents that contained linked images would cause NeoOffice to hang or crash
- Highlighting tables with certain Writer documents would cause NeoOffice to become unresponsive for a few seconds
- Certain scanners would cause NeoOffice to crash when the dialog that lists connected camera and scanners was displayed
- When contour wrapping was enabled for certain images in Writer documents, portions of the images would be clipped
- Added the following new features:
- Toolbars are visible and are no longer automatically hidden when in Full-Screen mode
- Cell pasting options in Calc's Paste Special dialog are preserved after relaunch
- The maximum number of rows that autocompletion searches through in Calc spreadsheets has been increased from 200 to 16,384 rows
New in NeoOffice 3.3 Patch 3 (Nov 26, 2012)
- Fixes for the following critical bugs:
- When using the Apple Dictation service in Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, NeoOffice would ignore the "new paragraph" and "new line" commands
- When running a slideslow in Impress, NeoOffice would sometimes show the first slide as a blank black screen
- Gadient backgrounds would be drawn with jagged edges or with diagonal lines superimposed on the gradient when running a slideshow, printing, or exporting to PDF
- NeoOffice would crash when trying to quit while a large document was being saved
- NeoOffice would crash when opening certain .xls files
- NeoOffice would occasionally hang when quitting
New in NeoOffice 3.3 Patch 2 (Oct 2, 2012)
- On Mac OS X Mountain Lion, NeoOffice crashed after selecting the Tools :: Options :: Add-ons :: Paste Image from Camera or Scanner menu
- On Mac OS X Mountain Lion, Apple's new new dictation feature did not work
- NeoOffice crashed when pasting text into a Calc cell when the current cell was in edit mode
- NeoOffice displayed measurements using the incorrect units when the Paragraph dialog was displayed using a custom Writer toolbar button
New in NeoOffice 3.3 Patch 1 (Aug 28, 2012)
- NeoOffice 3.3 had a critical bug that causes NeoOffice to not release some of the memory it uses and, if NeoOffice is not restarted periodically, this "memory leak" eventually causes NeoOffice 3.3 to run out of memory and crash. Fixed this crashing bug and have included the fix in NeoOffice 3.3 Patch 1.
- In addition, NeoOffice 3.3 Patch 1 also fixes a bug that causes certain types of OpenType fonts to not appear in PDF files created using NeoOffice's Export as PDF feature.
New in NeoOffice 3.3 (Aug 23, 2012)
- Compatible with Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion and Gatekeeper
- High resolution text drawing on Retina displays
- New Cocoa code replaces Java, which is no longer required for core functionality
- Improved startup and printing speed
- English, French, German, and Italian language packs included in the default install
New in NeoOffice 3.3 Beta 2 (Jul 24, 2012)
- Compatible with Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion and Gatekeeper:
- Apple's Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion contains many changes. To ensure that NeoOffice will run smoothly on this new version of Mac OS X, the NeoOffice engineers have dedicated a significant amount of time testing NeoOffice on all "developer preview" versions of Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion to find and fix any changes that affect NeoOffice before Apple's official release of Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion.
- Also in Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, Apple has added a new feature called Gatekeeper that is designed to help prevent Mac users from installing malicious software on their machine. To ensure that NeoOffice will install and run on machines using Gatekeeper's default settings, the NeoOffice engineers have digitally signed all NeoOffice installers and binary files so that Gatekeeper can verify that the NeoOffice engineers are registered Apple software developers. The NeoOffice engineers digitally sign NeoOffice using our legal corporate name - Planamesa Inc. - so only NeoOffice installers signed by Planamesa Inc. should be trusted.
- New Cocoa code replaces Java:
- NeoOffice now uses Apple's Cocoa framework to display windows, manage menus, and print. This new Cocoa code replaces the Java code that performed these functions in previous versions of NeoOffice. The new Cocoa code improves NeoOffice's startup and printing speed. It also removes the need for Java - a technology that Apple has begun been phasing out of Mac OS X - for most NeoOffice users. Java is now only used to open Base database files and to run a small number of NeoOffice's many wizards.
- Automatic installation of French, German, and Italian language packs:
- French, German, and Italian users no longer need to install a language pack. In previous versions of NeoOffice, users who wanted to see NeoOffice's menus, buttons, and help text in French, German, or Italian needed to install a language pack. While most users download NeoOffice from an English speaking country, a large number of our users download from French, German, and Italian speaking countries. By adding these three languages to the main installer, we estimate that 95% of NeoOffice users will not need to install a language pack.
New in NeoOffice 3.2.1 Patch 7 (Jul 14, 2012)
- Listboxes in several Base windows are not drawn properly
- Clicking and holding but not moving the mouse in an image in a Writer document will delete the image
- NeoOffice's underlying OpenOffice.org code may sometimes hang during the patch update check process
New in NeoOffice 3.3 Patch 1 Beta (Jul 14, 2012)
- NeoOffice crashes in certain cases when selecting the NeoOffice :: Quit or File :: Exit menus
- Inserting characters using the Mac OS X Character Viewer window fails
- Menus are not displayed in the menubar when an embedded object in a document is in edit mode and focus is received from a different application
- The Format :: Character menu is disabled when an embedded Calc object in a document is in edit mode
- Lines in certain charts appear twice as thick as they appear in previous versions of NeoOffice
- Pressing the Page Up and Page Down keys when the toolbar's font combobox is open causes unexpected characters to be displayed
New in NeoOffice 3.3 Beta (Jun 25, 2012)
- Compatible with Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion and Gatekeeper
- New Cocoa code replaces Java
- Automatic installation of French, German, and Italian language packs
New in NeoOffice 3.2.1 Patch 6 (Jun 19, 2012)
- Moved the location of NeoOffice temporary files to the ~/Library/Application Support/NeoOffice folder to protect them from deletion by rogue processes while NeoOffice is running.
- Fixed a crash when selecting certain options in the pop-up menu that is displayed when text is input in the Spotlight field of the Open File dialogue.
- Fixed a hang in the underlying OpenOffice.org code that could sometimes occur on certain machines when quitting NeoOffice.
New in NeoOffice 3.2.1 Patch 5 (Apr 27, 2012)
- Fixed an OpenOffice.org bug where editing certain spreadsheets that use the RATE function and are embedded within an .odt file will cause NeoOffice to crash.
- NeoOffice now exports high resolution bitmap images for EPS graphics when saving an .odt file to a .doc or .docx file in order to work around an OpenOffice.org bug that caused EPS graphics to be lost when saving to those file formats.
New in NeoOffice 3.2.1 Patch 4 (Feb 22, 2012)
- Opening certain .docx files causes comments to be merged and repeated
- Dragging table column name from data source fails
- A failed login shows a blank page in the NeoOffice Mobile window
- Pressing the window zoom button causes incorrect resizing in NeoOffice Mobile login screen
- Also, in NeoOffice 3.2.1 Patch 4 we simplified the process for downloading and installing future patches and new versions of NeoOffice. Starting with NeoOffice 3.2.1 Patch 4, NeoOffice will download the update from within NeoOffice.
- If downloading of the update fails or gets interrupted, NeoOffice will automatically try to resume the download from where the download failed.
- After the download completes, NeoOffice will automatically open the downloaded file and ask the user if they want to install the update now or install it later. If the user chooses to install the update now, NeoOffice will quit normally and launch the installer in the downloaded file. If the user chooses to install the update later, the user will be asked if they want to install the update when they quit NeoOffice.
New in NeoOffice 3.2.1 Patch 3 (Jan 10, 2012)
- Fixed - Opening certain .odt files that contain footnotes will cause some of the footnote references to be displayed as normal numbers instead of superscript numbers
New in NeoOffice 3.2.1 Patch 2 (Nov 9, 2011)
- Optima font renders using wrong font
- Highlighting in newly opened Writer document before rulers are resized fails
New in NeoOffice 3.2.1 Patch 1 (Oct 5, 2011)
- Opening certain .docx files causes NeoOffice to crash
- Vertical Chinese text are shifted left and downward on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
- Vertical fonts are drawn using zero glyph on Mac OS X 10.7 Lion
- Asian fonts are not exported to PDF on Mac OS X 10.7 Lion
New in NeoOffice 3.2.1 (Aug 31, 2011)
- Versions:
- In Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, Apple has added a new feature called Versions that allows applications to save and restore previous versions of your document. Using this new feature, saving a document causes Mac OS X to keep a copy of your document before any changes are saved so that you can restore any of the previous versions of your document.
- The NeoOffice engineers have implemented this new Mac OS X feature and saving a file will automatically keep a copy of your document before any changes are saved. Also, by selecting NeoOffice's new Browse All Versions menu, you will be able to restore any of the previous versions of your document in Apple's document version browser.
- Full-Screen mode:
- In Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, Apple has added a new feature called Full-Screen mode that allows users to expand a window to fill the entire screen by clicking a new button in the window title bar.
The NeoOffice engineers have implemented this new Mac OS X feature and pressing the new button or selecting NeoOffice's existing View :: Full Screen menu will cause a document to enter Full-Screen mode.
- Resume:
In Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, Apple has added a new feature called Resume that allows applications to automatically reopen the documents that were open the last time that the application quit. This new feature helps Mac OS X users avoid the tedious process of reopening their documents after launching an application.
- The NeoOffice engineers have implemented this new Mac OS X feature and NeoOffice will automatically reopen any documents that you had open the last time that NeoOffice quit immediately after NeoOffice has been launched. Also, NeoOffice users who do not like this new Mac OS X feature, will be able to disable this feature by selecting NeoOffice's new NeoOffice :: Mac OS X Options :: Disable Mac OS X Resume menu.
- Below is a list of some of the Mac OS X features requested by our users that are in NeoOffice 3.2.1 but are not in OpenOffice.org or LibreOffice:
- Native Mac OS X text highlighting:
NeoOffice draws highlighted text the same as Apple's Safari and TextEdit applications. Recent versions of OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice attempt to emulate native Mac OS X text highlighting by drawing a very light shade of the system highlight color on top of the highlighted text. However, many of our users have requested that we support full native Mac OS X text highlighting behavior in NeoOffice so we have rewritten the text highlighting code in NeoOffice's underlying OpenOffice.org code to draw highlighted text the same as Apple's various Mac OS X applications. The following screen snapshots show how NeoOffice's text highlighting behavior compares to OpenOffice.org's and LibreOffice's behavior:
- Text highlighting in NeoOffice
- Text highlighting in OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice
- Open Calc or Impress instead of Writer at launch:
- The NeoOffice :: Open at Launch menu allows you to choose which type of document to open when NeoOffice is launched. By default, NeoOffice opens a Writer document when launched. However, many of our users have requested that we provide an easy way to make a different document type such as Calc or Impress open when NeoOffice is launched so we have added the NeoOffice :: Open at Launch menu.
When a user selects one of the document types listed in this menu, NeoOffice will open the selected document type the next time that you launch it. Also, users can select the "- None -" menu item to only show the Mac OS X menubar when NeoOffice is launched. The screen snapshot to the right shows the NeoOffice :: Open at Launch menu with Calc set as the document type to open at launch.
New in NeoOffice 3.2.1 Beta (Jul 30, 2011)
- Adds new features for Mac OS X 10.7 Lion users such as:
- Versions
- Full-Screen mode
- Resume
New in NeoOffice 3.2 Patch 5 (Jul 11, 2011)
- fixes a bug in the Mac OS X scrollbars
New in NeoOffice 3.2 Patch 4 (Jun 15, 2011)
- Fixes a bug in the Mac OS X Save dialog.
New in NeoOffice 3.2 Patch 3 (Jun 10, 2011)
- Fixes a very old window resizing bug
New in NeoOffice 3.1.2 Patch 9 (May 10, 2011)
- Apple released a new developer preview of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion. After some testing of NeoOffice on this latest Lion developer preview release a bug has been found in the native Open and Save dialogs. The bug causes the file list in both dialogs to flicker and makes it difficult to read the file list.
- To ensure that NeoOffice 3.1 works smoothly on Mac OS X 10.7 Lion whenever it is released by Apple, this bug has been fixed.
New in NeoOffice 3.2 Patch 2 (May 10, 2011)
- Apple released a new developer preview of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion. After some testing of NeoOffice on this latest Lion developer preview release a bug has been found in the native Open and Save dialogs. The bug causes the file list in both dialogs to flicker and makes it difficult to read the file list.
- To ensure that NeoOffice 3.2 works smoothly on Mac OS X 10.7 Lion whenever it is released by Apple, this bug has been fixed.
New in NeoOffice 3.2 Patch 1 (Apr 28, 2011)
- fixes a crashing bug found on certain Mac machines
New in NeoOffice 3.2 (Apr 20, 2011)
- Fixed a bug where NeoOffice no longer put temporary files within FileVault folder
- Fixed a problem where Export to PDF causes stretched glyphs to be miskerned
New in NeoOffice 3.2 Beta Patch 3 (Apr 7, 2011)
- The patches includes fixes for the following bugs:
- Bug 3653 - Crash when removing or disabling font in Font Book application
- Bug 3654 - Menubar does not update when changing active window on Mac OS X 10.7 Lion
- Bug 3655 - Accessing menubar while printing causes hanging
- Bug 3656 - Native comboboxes and listboxes do not paint properly on Mac OS X 10.7 Lion
- Bug 3657 - Printing large document with many images excessive memory
New in NeoOffice 3.2 Beta Patch 2 (Mar 30, 2011)
- Lion allows resizing windows by dragging on any part of the window's edge and dragging the left edge would sometimes cause the window shape to "snap back" after dragging. Both of these patches eliminate this snapping back behavior.
- On Lion, most windows with titlebars now have a rounded bottom corners but NeoOffice would display such windows with squared corners. NeoOffice 3.2 Beta Patch 2 fixes this by displaying all non-floating windows with titlebars with rounded bottom corners when running NeoOffice on Lion.
New in NeoOffice 3.1.2 Patch 7 (Mar 30, 2011)
- Stopped a possible “snapping back” behavior when resizing a window by dragging the left edge on Mac OS X 10.7 “Lion”.
- All non-floating windows with titlebars now have rounded bottom corners when running NeoOffice on Mac OS X 10.7 “Lion”.
New in NeoOffice 3.1.2 Patch 6 (Mar 22, 2011)
- Improved the first-run experience on Mac OS X 10.7 “Lion” Macs that do not have Java installed.
- Prevented a hang on Mac OS X 10.6 when closing Image Capture’s dialog with the close button.
- Fixed a hang when dragging the file proxy icon in the titlebar to the same or another NeoOffice window.
- Fixed a bug that had prevented dragging items from the Media Browser to NeoOffice documents.
New in NeoOffice 3.2 Beta Patch 1 (Mar 22, 2011)
- When NeoOffice is first run on a Mac OS X 10.7 Lion machine that does not have Java installed, the dialog that appears now reads "To open NeoOffice..." instead of "To open java...". Also, after installing the Java system update from this dialog, NeoOffice will automatically relaunch.
- On Mac OS X 10.6 and higher, Apple's Image Capture dialog would cause NeoOffice to hang if that dialog's red close button was pressed. We found a way to disabled the red close button in that dialog to prevent this hanging bug from occurring.
- Dragging the icon in a NeoOffice document's titlebar into the same or another NeoOffice document would cause NeoOffice to hang. This hanging bug has been fixed.
New in NeoOffice 3.2 Beta (Mar 18, 2011)
- New Mac OS X 10.7 Lion compatible code:
- Apple's upcoming Mac OS X 10.7 Lion release is expected to have many significant changes so the NeoOffice engineers have completely reimplemented the following NeoOffice features to ensure that these features will be fully compatible with Mac OS X 10.7 Lion:
- Text layout and rendering
- Copy and paste
- Drag and drop
- Expanded font support:
- NeoOffice now uses Apple's "CoreText" text layout and rendering fuctions. In contrast, OpenOffice.org and previous versions of NeoOffice use Apple's older "ATSUI" functions. While users that only use the fonts that Apple bundles with Mac OS X, Apple's "CoreText" functions provides improved text layout and rendering for many Windows OpenType fonts.
- Significant reduction in size of PDF files:
- PDF files exported from NeoOffice that contain mostly text are now 50% to 75% smaller than the same files exported from previous versions of NeoOffice. The NeoOffice engineers implemented this significant reduction in PDF file size by using a more compact method of specifying the position of font glyphs within PDF files.
New in NeoOffice 3.1.2 Patch 5 (Mar 17, 2011)
- Tooltips remain visible after switching to another application
- Dropping Calc edit field text to desktop creates empty .textClipping file
- Destination rectangle not shown when dragging cells in Calc
- Calc crashes when deleting a row after certain undo actions
- Minimizing document window disables dragging to document's child windows
- Writer rulers do not match page margins after opening
New in NeoOffice 3.1.2 Patch 4 (Feb 11, 2011)
- Fixed a hang in Calc when the cell editing field is dragged
- Fixed a problem where dragged items from other applications are dropped at the wrong location
- Fixed an OpenOffice.org bug that could cause a Writer document to “jump back” to the cursor position when scrolling
New in NeoOffice 3.1.2 Patch 3 (Feb 3, 2011)
- NeoOffice's export as PDF code has been changed to produce significantly smaller PDF files than before
- NeoOffice's copy, paste, drag, and drop code has been reimplemented to remove all code that might fail when run on Apple's upcoming Mac OS X 10.7 Lion release
New in NeoOffice 3.1.2 Patch 2 (Dec 6, 2010)
- Fixed:
- 3639 - Linked Calc formulas do not update
- 3640 - Pasting HTML into Thunderbird contains extraneous data
- 3642 - Export as PDF causes NeoOffice to crash
- 3643 - Excessive CPU usage when opening an embedded OLE object in Writer
New in NeoOffice 3.1.2 Patch 1 (Oct 28, 2010)
- 3635 File :: Save As menu defaults to ODF file format instead of current format
- 3636 Printer Options dialog displays incorrect Notes setting
- 3637 Focus moves to wrong window after closing floating window
- 3638 Header content is not saved in .doc file
New in NeoOffice 3.1.2 (Sep 8, 2010)
- Temporary files are encrypted when FileVault is enabled:
- By default, NeoOffice's underlying OpenOffice.org code creates temporary files in your machine's /tmp folder. While this may not be a problem for most users, for users who have enabled FileVault /tmp is an insecure, unencrypted folder. Since NeoOffice's temporary files may contain data from a user's documents, NeoOffice now creates temporary files in a folder within the user's Home folder so that such files are automatically encrypted when FileVault is enabled.
- [edit] Fix for bugs that cause embedded images to be lost after saving Writer or Impress documents:
- In the last few months, we have seen several reports that in some cases embedded images are lost after saving and reopening Writer or Impress documents. This problem has been reported in NeoOffice as well as in the two products that NeoOffice is based on: Oracle's OpenOffice.org and Novell's Go-oo.
- Although this problem is very difficult to reproduce, we found and fixed the following two bugs that can cause images to be lost after saving Writer and Impress documents:
- Saving Writer documents - Images are lost in some cases where autorecovery is turned on, an autorecovery save occurs, and then the document is manually saved after the autorecovery save has finished.
- Saving Impress documents - Images are lost in some cases when Mac OS X deletes files in the system temporary folder. Mac OS X periodically deletes files in certain folders if they are more than a couple days old and if an Impress document is open for a couple of days, this periodic Mac OS X process will delete the temporary image files that NeoOffice and OpenOffice.org use to store embedded images in open Impress documents and once these temporary files are deleted, the embedded images in an open Impress document are lost.
New in NeoOffice 3.1.1 Patch 2 (Aug 10, 2010)
- Fixed a bug where cursor and character positions do not match when non-printing "dot character" is displayed in some fonts
- Fixed a bug where the Calc SUM() formula for a cell range in an external file returns incorrect results
- Fixed an issue where Calc grid lines hidden by cell background color
- Stopped a crash when copying and pasting from Calc to Impress with Belgian keyboard layout
- Fixed a bug where outline of selected Calc cells does not immediately appear when dragging
- Fixed an issue where Calc crashes when deleting row 1048576
- Fixed a problem where Calc crashes when creating a line chart using the chart wizard
- Fixed a bug that caused sheet password protection to fail with Calc files created in older versions of NeoOffice
- Fixed a problem where an inserted .emf image may only be partially displayed
- Fixed an issue where an embedded Draw object in Writer document only prints black and white
- Fixed a bug that caused native spell check to fail randomly on Mac OS X 10.6.x
- Added support for displaying the native print dialog when NeoOffice receives a "print document" event from other Mac OS X applications
- Fixed an issue where the Geeza Pro font would not render correctly on Mac OS X 10.6.x
- Fixed a bug where it was not possible to move 1 pixel at time in Draw using Opt-arrow keys
- Fixed a case of high CPU usage when scrolling vertically
New in NeoOffice 3.1.1 Patch 1 (Jun 14, 2010)
- Added support for Mac OS X Services that modify the selected text
- Fixed a bug where Calc resize guidelines disappear when resizing selected columns
- Fixed a highlighting artifact in merged cells
- Fixed a possible crash when undoing paste in merged cells
- Fixed a problem where Calc native highlighting did not display when row height is reduced
- Fixed an issue where the Paste Special menu item did not recognize tab delimited text
- Fixed a bug where the “Merge and Center Cells” toolbar button was disabled when cells were selected using keyboard
- Fixed a problem where Calc did not recalculate cells containing the INDIRECT() function
- Fixed a crash when opening certain master documents
New in NeoOffice 3.1.1 (May 10, 2010)
- New features in NeoOffice Mobile
- Native Mac OS X text highlighting
- Open Calc or Impress instead of Writer at launch
New in NeoOffice 3.0.2 Patch 4 (May 6, 2010)
- Fixed a bug where it was not possible to cycle through more than 2 open documents with certain keyboard settings
- Fixed a crash when printing with Java 1.4.2
- Fixed a possible crash when saving documents
New in NeoOffice 3.0.2 Patch 3 (Mar 30, 2010)
- Fixed a bug that caused check boxes in .doc files not to stay checked after saving
- Fixed a problem where a network printer could cause NeoOffice to hang for several minutes before sending output to the printer
- Fixed an issue that prevented cycling through more than 2 open documents on Mac OS X 10.6 when using a Belgian keyboard layout
New in NeoOffice 3.0.2 Patch 2 (Mar 7, 2010)
- Fixed a bug where cycling through open documents only cycled through two documents on Mac OS X 10.6
- Fixed a problem where accessing an .ods data source with cell borders was extremely slow
- Fixed a bug where displaying an image context menu disables the Save toolbar button
- Fixed an issue where EPS images with the Contour setting enabled do not display when document is opened
New in NeoOffice 3.0.2 Patch 1 (Feb 17, 2010)
- Bad fonts cause Calc labels and tabs to be compressed.
- Multipage table in .doc files truncated.
- Greek characters are stacked on top of each other.
- Impress crashes when inserting a table when cursor is in an existing table.
- Writer crashes when saving large document.
New in NeoOffice 3.0.2 (Feb 2, 2010)
- Native Mac OS X text highlighting
- User interface to select which module to open at launch
- User interface to control which Mac OS X features are enabled
- Smoother text kerning
- Support for moving or renaming files while open
New in NeoOffice 3.0.1 Patch 3 (Jan 4, 2010)
- Fixed a possible crash opening a document when document uses a font that is corrupt
- Re-enabled the ability to save existing iDisk files on Mac OS X 10.6 “Snow Leopard” after developing a work-around for a Mac OS X bug
New in NeoOffice 3.0.1 Patch 2 (Dec 9, 2009)
- Fixed a crash that could occur when opening large spreadsheets that contained sorted ranges
- Changed the behavior of the File: Printer Settings menu item to match the behavior previously seen in NeoOffice 2.2.x
- Fixed a bug where NeoOffice menus become unresponsive when all windows are minimized
- Fixed a problem where minimizing a document window that is displaying the native Mac OS X print dialog disables keyboard and mouse input
New in NeoOffice 3.0.1 Patch 1 (Nov 16, 2009)
- Worked around a crash on Mac OS X 10.6.x caused by saving to AFP (AppleShare) volumes
- Worked around an OpenOffice.org bug that prevented saving OpenDocument (.od*) files that have been open for several days
- Fixed a bug where Base would crashs when replacing form field format
- Fixed a problem where the Edit::Undo menu text in Calc would be incorrect after copying and pasting
- Fixed a bug where incorrect symbol fonts would appear in documents created with the Export as PDF function
New in NeoOffice 3.0.1 (Oct 27, 2009)
- Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard support
- NeoOffice Mobile
- Native file locking support for local and networked volumes
- Support for a Mac OS X user default to determine which module opens when launching the program
- Significant speed improvements in:
- Spreadsheet formula calculation
- Menubar display
New in NeoOffice 3.0 Patch 7 (Aug 11, 2009)
- Fixed a problem where the Sun Presentation Minimizer extension license agreement could cause Patch-6 installation to hang.
New in NeoOffice 3.0 Patch 6 (Aug 9, 2009)
- Added support for a Mac OS X user default to determine which module opens when launching the program.
- Fixed a possible crash when opening a certain .doc file.
- Fixed a problem where the Sun Presentation Minimizer crashes NeoOffice.
- Fixed a bug where the update check dialog window appears twice when starting with the -nodefault launch option.
- Fixed a problem that prevented RTF files with MacRoman encoding from being read properly.
- Fixed a problem where PDF export does not work with some fonts on Snow Leopard.
- Fixed an issue where Chinese text input gets lost when using the ITABC input method.
- Worked around a bug where Mozilla address books cause very high CPU usage.
New in NeoOffice 3.0 Patch 5 (Jun 25, 2009)
- Fixed a bug that prevented command-arrow keys from moving to end or beginning of line.
- Fixed an issue where the cursor jumped when Delete key is pressed.
- Fixed a possible crash in Base when using Mac OS X Address Book.
- Fixed a problem where deleting would not function properly in certain fields.
- Fixed a bug where some information in certain .doc files may not displayed.
New in NeoOffice 3.0 Patch 4 (Jun 17, 2009)
- Improved menu display speed.
- Fixed a bug where cropped EPS images did not appear in slide shows.
- Fixed a problem where the Media Browser cannot keep focus when Java 1.4 is used.
- Fixed an issue where NeoOffice could crash after pressing Command-Z.
New in NeoOffice 3.0 Patch 3 (Jun 7, 2009)
- Implemented significant speed improvements in:
- Spreadsheet formula calculation.
- Menubar display.
- Fixed a bug that could cause extension update check to fail on PowerPC machines.
- Fixed a case where NeoOffice could crash when opening a certain .doc file.
- Fixed an issue where the spinning beach ball pointer would appear frequently when accessing menus.
- Fixed an issue that caused excessive CPU usage when quitting.
- Worked around a bug where transparent pixels in pasted images are shown as black pixels.
- Fixed a bug where it was not possible to dock the slide pane in Impress.
- Fixed a bug where menus are blank after an Impress slide pane is undocked.
- Fixed an issue where slide handouts always print 6 slides per page in Impress.
- Fixed an issue that caused form controls to be clipped out completely when printing
- Fixed a problem where spreadsheets embedded in Writer documents are stretched when using "Export as PDF".
- Fixed a bug where "Export as PDF" creates incorrect output.
- Fixed Thonburi font kerning errors on Mac OS X 10.5.
New in NeoOffice 3.0 Patch 2 (May 2, 2009)
- Fixed incorrect layout when pasting hidden rows or columns from NeoOffice Calc into Microsoft Word 2004.
- Fixed a problem where PDF export of rotated text was distorted.
- Fixed a crash when copying table and saving to a .doc file.
- Fixed a hang when pasting text into Base SQL window.
- Fixed a hang when selecting a choice form control.
- Fixed a crash when opening a .doc file with certain form controls.
- Fixed a crash when dragging a Finder document over a NeoOffice window while the window is opening.
- Fixed a problem where the command key would be ignored when released at same time as a mouse button.
- Fixed crashes that could occur in certain cases when a NeoOffice was updating the system clipboard.
New in NeoOffice 3.0 Patch 1 (Apr 14, 2009)
- No contrast on check and list boxes in form.
- Cannot unhide rows in spreadsheet.
- Base crashes after creating report.
- Percentages in Calc cells are treated as zero.
- EPS images larger in slideshow than in edit mode.
- Improper kerning when exporting to PDF.
- File :: Send :: Document as E-mail always uses Apple Mail.
New in NeoOffice 2.2.5 Patch 9 (Apr 14, 2009)
- Occasional deadlocks in menu update.
- .xls file causes crash when opened on PowerPC.
- Carriage returns are copied instead of newlines.
- Drawing artifacts remain when dragging tabs in rulers.
- NeoOffice fails to launch on Snow Leopard.
- Font ascent sometimes returns zero.
New in NeoOffice 3.0 (Mar 30, 2009)
- Based on OpenOffice.org 3.0.1 codebase:
- New Chart module.
- PDF import in Draw.
- Improved presentation tools.
- Requires Mac OS X 10.4.11 or later.
- Improved performance.
- Support for the Mac OS X Services menu within NeoOffice (read-only).
- Official support for PowerPC- and Intel-based Macs.
- Experimental support for developer seeds of Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard".
New in NeoOffice 2.2.5 Patch 8 (Mar 25, 2009)
- Fixed a bug where the second monitor may not detected when connected
- Fixed occasional deadlocks in menu update
- Fixed a problem where OpenOffice.org code would deadlock when opening document with control characters in name
- Fixed a possible crash when stopping a printer
- Fixed a problem where the patch installer hangs when installing on Snow Leopard
- Fixed a bug where the Command-Shift-F10 key combination would not dock dockable windows
New in NeoOffice 2.2.5 Patch 7 (Feb 10, 2009)
- Fixed a bug that caused the warning dialog not to appear when quitting while a document is minimized.
- Fixed a crash when the Help window is displayed from Find and Replace dialog.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when pasting a table copied from Microsoft Word.
- Fixed a bug that caused the grammar checker to fail on some files when invoked using the "Entire Document" menu item.
New in NeoOffice 2.2.5 Patch 6 (Dec 29, 2008)
- Fixed bug: No Video in Slide Show Movies.
New in NeoOffice 2.2.5 Patch 5 (Dec 18, 2008)
- NeoOffice now respects the "Jump to here" setting in the Appearance System Preferences.
- The Print sheet will no longer attach to floating toolbar windows.
- Fixed a bug on Mac OS X 10.5 where radio buttons and checkboxes retained the active appearance when their windows were not active.
- Fixed a bug where playing a sound in the Gallery could cause NeoOffice to crash.
- Added a hidden setting to disable all trackpad gestures in NeoOffice.
New in NeoOffice 2.2.5 Patch 4 (Nov 13, 2008)
- Fixed a bug that prevented compatible Services from working in some circumstances on Mac OS X 10.5.
New in NeoOffice 2.2.5 Patch 3 (Nov 11, 2008)
- Fixed a bug where OLE object resizing could cause a crash.
- Adjusted the magnify or "pinch" trackpad gestures so that they are not hypersensitive.
- Support for the Mac OS X Services menu within NeoOffice (read-only).
- Experimental support for developer seeds of Mac OS X 16.6 "Snow Leopard".
- Security fixes for two security vulnerabilities in NeoOffice's underlying OpenOffice.org code.
New in NeoOffice 2.2.5 Patch 2 (Nov 10, 2008)
- Fixed a problem where Export as PDF with math symbols produces corrupt PDF file.
- Fixed a bug where scrolling in the Help window renders improperly on laptops.
- Fixed an issue where saving Office 2007/2008 files does not warn of potential formatting loss like when saving Office 97/2000/XP files.
- Fixed a bug were it was not possible to open files from Finder after cancelling a .csv file import.
- Fixed a problem where it was not possible to drag and drop data source field names.
New in NeoOffice 2.2.5 Patch 1 (Sep 27, 2008)
- Fixed a bug where moving margins with a PSD image background could cause a crash
- Fixed a bug where double-clicking would not always work on G3 and G4 PowerPC machines
- Fixed an issue where modal dialogues could display underneath floating tool windows
- Fixed a problem where Java system update on Mac OS X 10.5.5 caused fonts to display much too large
- Added a Spanish translation to the Media Browser
New in NeoOffice 2.2.5 (Sep 15, 2008)
- Added support for using an Apple Remote to run presentations
- Presentations run up to two times faster in NeoOffice 2.2.5 than in OpenOffice.org 3.0
- Added ability to customize folders displayed in the Media Browser
- Saving in Web Layout View no longer forgets cursor position
- Updated Akua icons and high-resolution Finder icons
New in NeoOffice 2.2.4 Patch 5 (Aug 21, 2008)
- Fixed a bug that caused background images to be rendered as black rectangles when exporting to image.
- Fixed a problem where EPS images were not rendered when running slideshows.
- Fixed an issue where light transparent objects appear dark when running slideshows.
- Fixed a bug that caused the last character to be clipped when typing in Calc header dialog.
- Fixed a bug that could allow document-modal dialogs to lose focus.
New in NeoOffice 2.2.4 Patch 4 (Aug 18, 2008)
- Significant (up to 33%) performance improvements in presentation slideshows
- Fixed a bug where File or other menus were displayed when launching NeoOffice with the "nodefault" option
- Fixed a crash that could happen at startup when the home folder is on a remote volume
New in NeoOffice 2.2.4 Patch 3 (Jul 31, 2008)
- Added support for using an Apple Remote to control presentations
- Fixed an issue where the second opening of password-protected file fails
- Fixed a problem where movies play only sound after the QuickTime 7.5 update
New in NeoOffice 2.2.4 Patch 2 (Jul 11, 2008)
- Fixed an issue where pressing Command-' set the focus to the wrong window
- Fixed an issue where the active cursor jumped to the floating toolbar when the cursor was moved to tables or lists
- Fixed an issue where the default Arabic font rendered incorrectly in Calc
New in NeoOffice 2.2.4 Patch 1 (Jun 24, 2008)
- Fixed an issue where clipping of background images failed when printing
- Fixed a problem where Fontwork was missing or banded when printing
- Fixed possible crashes at startup or when editing a form in Base due to preferences corruption
New in NeoOffice 2.2.4 (Jun 16, 2008)
- Media Browser support
- Native floating tool windows
- Magnify and swipe trackpad gestures
- Horizontal scrollwheel support
New in NeoOffice 2.2.3 Patch 6 (Jun 10, 2008)
- Fixed a problem where the presence of PostScript fonts would cause incorrect characters to be displayed.
- Fixed a bug where certain picture alignment settings could cause files printed to PDF to be huge.
- Fixed a problem where using a hidden Mac OS X setting for double arrows at both ends of the scrollbar caused the scroll arrows not to function.
- Fixed a bug where the "Export to PDF" function would incorrectly apply PDF security settings.
- Fixed an issue where resizing a Calc document during loading caused incorrect display of the document.
- Fixed a bug on Mac OS X 10.5 where file locking on local volumes worked incorrectly.
New in NeoOffice 2.2.3 Patch 5 (May 29, 2008)
- Fixed a bug where opening Office 2003 XML file produces General I/O error
- Fixed poor selection of Polish and Cyrillic replacement fonts
- Fixed a problem where landscape documents could be cropped when printing
New in NeoOffice 2.2.3 Patch 4 (May 24, 2008)
- Fixed certain crashes that might happen while using Solver feature
- Fixed a problem where PDF export irregularly showed missing glyphs in equations
- Fixed a problem where macros were no longer editable
- Fixed a bug where images were cropped out when printing envelopes
New in NeoOffice 2.2.3 Patch 3 (May 6, 2008)
- New Media Browser functionality similar to the iLife Media Browser
- Implemented native floating palettes
- Support for magnify and swipe multitouch trackpad gestures
- Fixed a bug where the Autofilter did not display all choices in Calc
- Fixed a bug where the Autofilter caused problems when rows are deleted
- Fixed a bug where text import applied the wrong character set in Calc
- Fixed a bug where radio buttons were not properly drawn in Calc
- Fixed a bug where zooming a document with scrollwheel did not work
- Fixed a bug where Command-` window cycling included the 1x1 pixel window
- Fixed a bug where Command-` window cycling did not ignore palette windows
- Fixed a crash when one window had Bullets and Table toolbars open and another window did not
- Fixed a bug where text was miskerned when exporting to PDF
- Fixed a bug where text was miskerned when printing to high resolution printer
- Fixed a crash when loading a specific WordPerfect .wpd file
New in NeoOffice 2.2.3 Patch 2 (Apr 15, 2008)
- Added support for horizontal scrolling with supported mice, trackballs, and trackpads
- Improved import of PICT images (stand-alone and embedded in MS Office documents)
- Opening the Help menu on Mac OS X 10.5 no longer causes other menus to vanish
- Fixed a hang that may occur after generating merged documents
- Fixed an issue where the mail merge document window opened with wrong size
- Fixed a bug where new document windows sometimes opened with wrong size
- Fixed an issue where spaces may have had an incorrect size when exporting as PDF
- Fixed a bug where Dashed and dotted lines converted to solid lines when exporting as PDF
- Fixed an issue where Patch-1 could cause NeoOffice to crash during launching
- Fixed a bug where some Opt-arrow keys move pictures and frames in wrong direction
New in NeoOffice 2.2.3 Patch 1 (Mar 24, 2008)
- Fixed a problem where text was mis-kerned when exporting to PDF
- Fixed a bug where the wrong accented glyphs were used when exporting to PDF
New in NeoOffice 2.2.3 (Mar 17, 2008)
- Support for playing QuickTime video in documents (Mac OS X 10.4.x and higher only)
- Menus are available when no documents are open
- Import of images from scanners and cameras
- Command-clicking on window titlebar reveals the document path
- Use of the system-wider grammar checker (Mac OS X 10.5.x only)
- Updates to the Akua icon set
New in NeoOffice 2.2.2 Patch 10 (Feb 7, 2008)
- Now imports images from scanners and cameras