April 23rd, 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.
March 7th, 2013Fixed:
· 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
January 22nd, 2013Includes 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
November 26th, 2012Fixes 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
October 2nd, 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
August 28th, 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.
August 23rd, 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
July 24th, 2012Compatible 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.
July 14th, 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
July 14th, 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
June 25th, 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
June 19th, 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.
April 27th, 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.
February 22nd, 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.
January 10th, 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
November 9th, 2011· Optima font renders using wrong font
· Highlighting in newly opened Writer document before rulers are resized fails
October 5th, 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
August 31st, 2011Versions:
· 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.
July 30th, 2011Adds new features for Mac OS X 10.7 Lion users such as:
· Versions
· Full-Screen mode
· Resume
July 11th, 2011· fixes a bug in the Mac OS X scrollbars
June 15th, 2011· Fixes a bug in the Mac OS X Save dialog.
June 10th, 2011· Fixes a very old window resizing bug
May 10th, 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.
May 10th, 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.
April 28th, 2011· fixes a crashing bug found on certain Mac machines
April 20th, 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
April 7th, 2011The 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
March 30th, 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.
March 30th, 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”.
March 22nd, 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.
March 22nd, 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.
March 18th, 2011New 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.
March 17th, 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
February 11th, 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
February 3rd, 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
December 6th, 2010Fixed:
· 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
October 28th, 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
September 8th, 2010Temporary 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.
August 10th, 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
June 14th, 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
May 10th, 2010· New features in NeoOffice Mobile
· Native Mac OS X text highlighting
· Open Calc or Impress instead of Writer at launch
May 6th, 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
March 30th, 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
March 7th, 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
February 17th, 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.
February 2nd, 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
January 4th, 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
December 9th, 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
November 16th, 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
October 27th, 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
August 11th, 2009· Fixed a problem where the Sun Presentation Minimizer extension license agreement could cause Patch-6 installation to hang.
August 9th, 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.
June 25th, 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.
June 17th, 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.
June 7th, 2009Implemented 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.
May 2nd, 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.
April 14th, 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.
April 14th, 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.
March 30th, 2009Based 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".
March 25th, 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
February 10th, 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.
December 29th, 2008· Fixed bug: No Video in Slide Show Movies.
December 18th, 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.
November 13th, 2008· Fixed a bug that prevented compatible Services from working in some circumstances on Mac OS X 10.5.
November 11th, 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.
November 10th, 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.
September 27th, 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
September 15th, 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
August 21st, 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.
August 18th, 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
July 31st, 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
July 11th, 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
June 24th, 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
June 16th, 2008· Media Browser support
· Native floating tool windows
· Magnify and swipe trackpad gestures
· Horizontal scrollwheel support
June 10th, 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.
May 29th, 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
May 24th, 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
May 6th, 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
April 15th, 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
March 24th, 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
March 17th, 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
February 7th, 2008· Now imports images from scanners and cameras
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