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IBM Lotus Symphony Changelog

What's new in IBM Lotus Symphony 3.0.1

Mar 6, 2012
  • General:
  • Opening Microsoft Office 2007 documents that are protected by a password.
  • More numbering and bullet styles.
  • Performance enhancement for autosave.
  • Homepage enhancement.
  • Presentations:
  • Editing speaker notes in normal view.
  • Coping data from a spreadsheet as a link.
  • Spreadsheets:
  • Keeping formatting in DataPilot tables.
  • 1 million rows support in spreadsheets
  • Preserving the cell comments in Microsoft Office 2007 Excel files after save it in Lotus Symphony.
  • Charts:
  • New chart types.
  • Inserting new level categories in chart data.
  • Including values from hidden cells.
  • Rotating text in data labels.
  • Key Bug Fixes:
  • Cannot save files if you keep the files open on Apple Mac OS and do not touch them for several days.
  • Content is lost after saving a .docx file to an .odt file that contains bookmarks across multiple table cells.
  • Open .pptx file in Symphony, create new slide, the default text box goes out of slide page.
  • Create a table in a presentation, input text in the table cells, apply a table design to the table, undo once or twice, Symphony fails.
  • Error message 4000:Unknown Exception shows when running LotusScript® code in Lotus Notes®.
  • Auto save cannot save the password of documents.
  • Copy a table with data from Excel to Symphony presentation, text in the graphic does not display well while opening the file or playing the screenshow in Symphony on Mac.
  • A security vulnerability in OpenOffice.org that is related to .doc file processing might lead to arbitrary code execution.
  • Open a .xls file with formula GETPIVOTDATA in the first sheet and Lotus Symphony fails.
  • Export an .ods file that contains a DataPilot with TopN settings, and Microsoft Excel 2003 reports that the file is corrupted when opening the .xls file.
  • Set preference as Microsoft Office 97-2003 file type for new created files, and the file extensions are not changed.
  • The title is not correctly positioned on slides that contain only titles.
  • Lotus Symphony fails when running the VBA code ThisWorkbook.Worksheets.Add.
  • Spell check marks the Hungarian word as a wrong word after added it in the dictionary.
  • Default Japanese font is not correct when changing locales to ja if the document is created in an English locale.
  • If you open a .xlsx file which contains multiple PivotTables with same name, the PivotTables are lost.
  • Range name is lost when opening the a .xls file that contains the same range names with a different scope.
  • Cannot import Excel template and Word template to the Template Organizer.
  • Lotus Symphony freezes when copying and pasting a bullet with a customized big graphic.
  • On Mac OS, Symphony freezes when using fn+control+F2 to switch to the menu.
  • Templates with a PNG object and an OLE object cannot be saved to .ppt format correctly.
  • Open a .docx file that contains a table and a special field in the table and the table is lost.
  • The page layout turns to Portrait when opening a .docx file that contains a section and table in the page with different page styles.
  • The arrow shapes are lost when opening a .docx file that contains arrows with unsupported line properties.
  • In a spreadsheet, paste a hyperlink into an unprotected cell in a protected sheet, and the cell turns into a protected cell.
  • In a spreadsheet, when Paste Special is selected for a comment only in a cell, the text in the cell is deleted.
  • Open an .xls file in Lotus Symphony, enter a formula that uses commas as the separator, save the file, and reopen it and the formula is lost.
  • The context menu for rows and columns does not display when right-clicking a cell in the table in a presentation.
  • When saving an .odp file as .ppt format, transparency on a shape is lost when opening the .ppt file in Microsoft PowerPoint.
  • Text fails to import to a spreadsheet when the field begins with an equal sign.
  • The .csv file that contains double quotation marks in a cell is truncated after imported into Lotus Symphony.
  • The top alignment attribute for text in text box is lost when opening a .pptx file in Symphony.
  • Users should be able to navigate only between all unprotected cells in a spreadsheet by pressing the Tab key.
  • When opening a .pptx file in Symphony which contains text with default font style, the font size becomes larger.
  • The chart and graphics display as a line if the grouped rows are expanded when opening a spreadsheet file.
  • The connector line changes its position automatically when changing the color of the connected shape.
  • The attributes of Numbering in presentations cannot be obtained by the accessibility tool UnoInspect32.

New in IBM Lotus Symphony 3.0 (Oct 23, 2010)

  • New Features:
  • VBA scripts support
  • ODF 1.2 standard support
  • Office 2007 OLE support
  • Brand new sidebars containing enriched property sections and panels across different editors, with support of sidebar panel management to show or hide sidebar panels
  • Ability to customize toolbar content and layout
  • Ability to create new business cards and labels
  • Ability to insert OLE, audio and video files
  • Master document support
  • Support of Live Text
  • Enabled file encryption and password protection with Microsoft Word and Excel files
  • Support for "Open in new window". Users can use Command+~ on Mac OS and Alt + Tab on XP/Vista to switch windows
  • New clip art gallery
  • More template files
  • Support of VML images in OOXML files
  • Support of more parameters for protecting spreadsheet files and sheets in VBA API
  • Support of separate downloads of spell check dictionary addons for 22 languages for Windows OS users
  • Support of same build re-installation in silent mode on Windows
  • Support of online check of new product updates
  • Enhancements:
  • Better graphic object rendering through improved anti-aliasing
  • Refined main menu and toolbar design for better usability and consistency across editors
  • Ability to open a file by dragging and dropping it to a tab or empty workbench
  • Better usability during the operation of dragging graphic objects
  • Enhanced the usability in manipulating color property with new color picker controls
  • Enabled new progress bar to launch and load/save files
  • Enabled memorizing user file paths when inserting objects into file
  • Added one click link to LotusLive website on homepage
  • Improved accessibility support for graphic objects in files and help
  • Various additional user experience enhancements
  • Significant enhancement in online help content and structure
  • Document editor:
  • New Features:
  • Enabled native nested tables support.
  • Enabled multi-page view layout support.
  • Support of Auto Text
  • More fields support
  • Custom properties
  • Outline levels within paragraph
  • Enhancements:
  • Enhanced PDF export support.
  • Improved document notes function.
  • Enhancements in supporting much more types of fields in documents.
  • Ability to select rectangle region of text in document editor.
  • Ability to set bullets and numbering in multiple table cells at a time.
  • Document header and footer function enhancements and usability improvements
  • Enhanced the interoperability with MS Word documents that contains page grid layout content
  • Spreadsheet editor:
  • New Features:
  • Extended maximum number of columns from 256 to 1024.
  • Sheet specific zoom support.
  • Text to column value convert support.
  • Detective function.
  • Solve equations and solver.
  • "What if" function.
  • Inline array constants in formulas.
  • Dynamic ranges in validation lists.
  • More formulas.
  • Enhancements:
  • Improved sort and formula performance.
  • Enhancement in moving rows or columns easily through dragging column headers.
  • Ability to select multiple sheets.
  • Formula hot hints.
  • Flexible source range selection
  • Enabled multiple calculation in one sheet of the Lotus Spreadsheet editor, including mixed sort and filter, as well as multiple sort areas.
  • Enabled sorting instant filters in Lotus Spreadsheet
  • Enhanced functionality and usability in "import data from external file" function
  • Enhanced the support of auto selection in files with built-in database ranges
  • Presentation editor:
  • New Features:
  • Multi-monitor display support.
  • More presentation animation effects.
  • More page layouts.
  • More drawing objects.
  • More fontwork.
  • Support of copy and paste pages or objects together with animation effects.
  • Enhancements:
  • Significantly improved user experience in managing and using templates.
  • Enhancement in slide show effect through hardware acceleration for graphics.
  • Improved crop feature.
  • Support of switching between four different views in presentation by clicking tabs at the bottom of the screen.
  • Disabled Autosave during Lotus Presentation slide show to avoid the unexpected interruption
  • Enhanced the Presentation text objects undo and redo function
  • Chart:
  • New Features:
  • Significantly improved chart experience through new chart engine.
  • Enhancements:
  • New chart creation wizard.
  • Many newly added formatting options.
  • More chart types: Column and Line, Cylinder, Cone, Pyramid.

New in IBM Lotus Symphony 1.3 (Jul 20, 2009)

  • Functional enhancements:
  • Enabled Microsoft Office 2007 files import support.
  • Significant enhancements in DataPilot in spreadsheets, including show/hide field items panel, drill down to details, DataPilot cache support, and default styles.
  • Numbering enhancement in documents to improve interoperability with Microsoft Word.
  • Enabled Microsoft Office and IBM Lotus SmartSuite password protection support for spreadsheets.
  • Enabled network URI access and hyperlink support that allows you to create network connection hyperlinks for URI protocols including FTP, MailTo, and SMB.
  • Enabled envelope support which allows you to create an envelope, set envelope properties, and set printing options.
  • Enabled Widgets Catalog server support.
  • Improved print performance.
  • Enabled Sumproduct's ForceArray formula support in spreadsheets.
  • Significant start-up performance improvement on Mac OS X.
  • Usability enhancements:
  • In presentations, page layout is more visible by locating the Properties sidebar in the right panel.
  • Provided better animation effects interoperability with Microsoft PowerPoint on font-relative effects, fade-exit effects, and multiple motion paths; and enabled the animation play at automatic page transitions.
  • Provided an automatic cursor in presentation screen shows as a default option.
  • Presentation pages can be deleted continuously without any prompt.
  • Provided new graphic bullets and clip art.
  • Provided enhanced color pallette in color picker.
  • Enhancements in live text.
  • Enabled support that allows you to open a file by dragging and dropping a file to the home page or the New.
  • A continuous improvement in mail merge in documents.
  • Default font is changed to Arial in presentations and documents.
  • Enlarged the pull-down list length upper limit to 20 items to make more options visible.
  • Enabled Ctrl+left Shift and Ctrl+right Shift hotkey support to switch BIDI layout.
  • Enhanced toolbar and main menu usability.
  • Programmability enhancements:
  • Provided rich Lotus Symphony document model APIs for Spreadsheets and Documents.
  • Online help enhancements:
  • Enhanced help content for spreadsheets, common, and preferences topics.
  • Web site:
  • Added drag-to-install function in the Plug-ins section.
  • Added support for multiple downloads and enabled Atom feeds for clip art and templates in the Gallery section.
  • Expanded search function for the Forum.
  • Rotated announcements on the Home page.
  • KEY BUG FIXES:
  • Defects reported on the Symphony Forum:
  • A file which has been opened in other editors should be read-only when opened in Symphony.
  • Symphony Document often crashes when searching with words containing wild cards.
  • Measurement units in the sidebar are inconsistent with those in the property window.
  • SUMPRODUCT function doesn't work as in Microsoft Excel.
  • INDIRECT function returns wrong value in Spreadsheet.
  • Charts should end with the last valid data entries in the range, rather than dropping down to zero for blank cells.
  • Items in the form Listbox get lost after saving.
  • Animations created by Symphony can not be recognized by OpenOffice.org.
  • For files in RTF/DOC/ODT format, pages in Landscape are printed out in Portrait.
  • Encrypted document can't be opened even with the correct password in Turkey OS.
  • Symphony fails to print a document with both Portrait and Landscape pages.
  • The email hyperlink can not redirect to the mail system.
  • Symphony can't save https protocol hyperlink.
  • The document created in WordPro and saved as Microsoft Binary File Format cannot be opened by Symphony.
  • Linux:
  • The graphic animation of a presentation file fails when it is played in Windows and crashes under Linux.
  • Language Related Fixes:
  • There is translation issue of 'Mail Merge' in Symphony Simplified Chinese version.
  • Translation in the color panel is inaccurate.
  • VLOOKUP function results in wrong value in non-English version of Symphony but results a valid value in Microsoft Excel.
  • Lotus Symphony Documents:
  • Some check boxes duplicate when a Microsoft word 2002 document is opened in Symphony.
  • Font is rendered incorrectly when a Microsoft word 2002 document is opened in Symphony.
  • Header numbering is wrong with a Microsoft doc file opened in Symphony.
  • Some bullet lists are not rendered correctly when editing a Microsoft word document.
  • System is out of memory when trying to delete table column from a .doc document with Symphony.
  • Autoshapes are moved down when a Microsoft doc document is opened.
  • Characters within autoshapes are out of shapes when a Microsoft doc document is opened.
  • Headers are squished when a .doc file is opened in Symphony.
  • Symphony hangs when editing an odt file by selecting all the contents and changing their fonts to Arial.
  • Poor formatting appears when an odt file published on Sametime Unyte.
  • Title converts from horizontal to vertical when an odt document is saved to Microsoft word.
  • Table of Content is displayed incorrectly when a document is opened in Microsoft Binary File Format.
  • Any text box with rotation in one group will have some rendering issues when opened in Symphony.
  • Symphony crashes when switching list style from numbering to bullet.
  • Symphony hangs when opening an ODT file converted from Microsoft Binary File Format.
  • Symphony crashes when opening a document in OpenOffice.org 1.0 File Format.
  • Lotus Symphony Presentations:
  • Page view grays out when showing/hiding page.
  • List Numbering is rendered incorrectly when an Microsoft PowerPoint file is opened.
  • Shapes get distorted when saving odp files as Microsoft Binary File Format.
  • Text orientation changes when playing a presentation in Microsoft Binary File Format.
  • Symphony fails to open a file in Lotus 1-2-3 format with empty cells.
  • Bullet gets lost when a sample .odp file is opened.
  • A .odp file get corrupted and can't be reopened after saved in Symphony.
  • Symphony fails to save modifications on a Microsoft PowerPoint file which contains the embossed effect font in most of the pages.
  • Symphony fails to open a sample Microsoft PowerPoint file which contains VB controls in the slide master.
  • Table objects of a presentation document still exist in its packaged files even if they are removed from the document.
  • Expand Page causes crash or intermittent result in Symphony.
  • Page Name can be duplicated when a page is renamed from the default name.
  • Some characters in picture overlap when opening a presentation in Microsoft Binary File Format.
  • The background color of textbox and picture is changed from transparent to another color background.
  • A graphic is wrongly attached with an extra picture in a Microsoft PowerPoint file.
  • Hyperlink color in Presentation is inconsistent with that in the Color Scheme preference.
  • The pasted page isn't the copied one when copy a page from a ppt document to an odp document.
  • Text rendered incorrectly when a Microsoft PowerPoint file is opened in Symphony.
  • Symphony fails to change the hyperlink text color in Presentation.
  • Picture inside a presentation in Microsoft Binary File Format gets lost.
  • Presentation saved by Symphony cannot be opened when XML syntax error is found in styles.xml.
  • Grouped objects are not hidden as expected after an animation effect during playing a presentation.
  • Magnify animation effect is missing during playing a Microsoft PowerPoint file.
  • Dotted line is inconsistent with Powerpoint.
  • Many texts in Microsoft PowerPoint file are rendered incorrectly with Symphony.
  • Table borders in Presentation are not exported properly into PDF.
  • Warning message box will pop up when deleting slides in Page Thumbnails view.
  • Layout is incorrectly rendered when opening a presentation in Microsoft Binary File Format.
  • Picture is enlarged unnaturally in Presentation created on Mac.
  • UI turns out frozen for preparing its slide thumbnails when opening a presentation file with a large number of pages.
  • Open a large presentation, when page counter on the status bar stops, close the presentation, and Symphony crashes.
  • Some background colors in Symphony are inconsistent with those in Microsoft PowerPoint.
  • Vertical mirrored graphics in a Microsoft Binary File Format are displayed incorrectly.
  • Content from Excel is truncated when copied to a Symphony Presentation.
  • Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets:
  • SUMIF returns error 504 for horizontal range.
  • Cell formatting conditions return wrong value when a cell value is compared with a constant character which isn't enclosed in quotation marks.
  • Some formulas are wrongly rendered when opening an ods doc created in OO 3.0.
  • Split cells cannot keep original style of cell border.
  • Cell borders are displayed incorrectly after merging cells.
  • Track Changes option for a Microsoft Excel file has been turned off in Excel, but it is still on in Symphony.
  • Quick calculation item in status bar is in fixed width and can't be adjusted.
  • Conditional formatting partially works when saving a spreadsheet in Microsoft Binary File Format as Open Document Format.
  • A Spreadsheet document can not be saved successfully after copy/paste some sheets within it.
  • Links can not be refreshed when the values changed in an Excel file.
  • Chart is displayed incorrectly with a special data range when a Microsoft Excel file is imported.
  • The cell content splits up when a CSV file is imported into Symphony.
  • The content of the Spreadsheet cell is inaccurate when there are form controls in the cell and opened in Symphony.
  • Cell with only a space should be ignored as 0.
  • Error with formulas appears when an ODS file created with OO 3.0 is opened.
  • Programmability:
  • Graphics overlap when converting LWP file into HTML with Symphony API toolkit.
  • General usage:
  • Large SpoolFile is created when a presentation file is printed with Symphony.
  • Pasting text and table from Notes causes Symphony to hang.
  • Invalid values would return when navigating the Preference dialog.
  • Search with " " in Help doesn't work as expected.
  • The content of "Name Object" in Help is missing.

New in IBM Lotus Symphony 1.2.1 (Jan 20, 2009)

  • Comparing with Lotus Symphony 1.2 on Windows and Linux, the following features are not enabled on symphony 1.2.1 on Mac:
  • Programmability Toolkit
  • Send to Mail of Mail Merge
  • Graphics with text cannot be copied to other applications
  • In Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets and Lotus Symphony Presentations, insert a graphic and enter text into it, and then copy the graphic to another editor, or to Lotus Notes, the text inside the graphic might be lost.
  • Cannot copy cell formula from Symphony Spreadsheet to MS Excel
  • When copying a Spreadsheet cell formula in Symphony to MS Excel, it's not the formula but the formula value that copies to Excel.
  • Graphic cannot be inserted into custom shape
  • Symphony Documents doesn't support inserting graphic into custom shape. When opening the file containing such custom shape which includes graphic, the internal graphic will be lost.
  • Spellcheck does not support user dictionaries for some languages
  • Spell check does not support the user dictionaries of the following language versions: Hebrew, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Turkish and Hungarian.
  • Forms are not saved correctly in .PPT format
  • If a Lotus Symphony Presentations document that contains forms is saved as a Microsoft PowerPoint (.PPT) file, and is then re-opened by PowerPoint, the forms in that document will display as blank rectangular frames.
  • Tables in Lotus Notes cannot be copied to Lotus Symphony Presentations
  • Select and copy a table in Lotus Notes, and then paste it into Lotus Symphony Presentations. The result is that only the table text remains.
  • Animation on child objects in a group cannot be pasted
  • Mark several objects into one group, enter the group and set animations to the child object. When you copy and paste the group, the animations in the child object cannot be duplicated.
  • "Reversing Path Direction" is not supported for animation effect
  • "Reversing Path Direction" is an attribute for the 'Motion Paths' animation effects in Microsoft PowerPoint. This attribute is not supported in Lotus Symphony Presentations. If this attribute is set to 'True', there will be no animation effect.
  • Formula result is incorrectly shown when opening a Lotus 123 file
  • If a Lotus 1-2-3 file which contains formula text in cell with "Text Formula" style is opened by Lotus Symphony, the calculated formula result will be displayed (this is different from the title "incorrectly shown". Please check).
  • Saving unsupported document type might cause data loss
  • Unsupported document types can be opened by altering their extensions, but this might cause data loss when the file is saved back. For example, changing a .HTML file into a .SXW file and opening it might result in the document content being lost when subsequently saving the file.
  • Colors setting cannot be applied or restored correctly
  • Modifications on colors settings in File > Preferences cannot be applied by clicking the Apply button. As a workaround, click Modify to apply the modifications.
  • After completing modifications, clicking Restore Defaults will not restore the default colors setting.
  • DataPilot table Panel auto refreshes when modifying source data
  • After modifying the data source which is used to create a DataPilot table, the layout data in DataPilot panel is not consistent with the DataPilot table if the automatically update button is checked or click update button. It is consistent with the new source data.
  • Users cannot Undo if a document is not completely loaded
  • The "Undo" command does not work when a document is still loading (for example, if the page number in the status bar keeps on increasing), until that loading is finished.
  • TOC hyperlink in MS Word document does not work in Lotus Symphony
  • When an MS Word document with a TOC is opened by Lotus Symphony, the TOC hyperlink doesn't work as expected.
  • Workaround: Select TOC and launch context menu, choose update Index/Table. The TOC hyperlink will be enabled. Hyperlink target might be changed if pasted from Lotus Symphony Documents.
  • In Lotus Symphony Documents, copy a hyperlink with non-empty frame type to other applications, the pasted hyperlink target will be appended with the frame type text. Then activating the hyperlink won't go to the target URL correctly.
  • Workaround: Edit the pasted hyperlink and remove the appended frame type text from target URL. The hyperlink activation will be correct.
  • Order of animation might be changed after pasting multi objects
  • Create several objects in one page and set animations separately. Copy these objects and paste them to another page, the animation effect order might be different from previous. The pasted animation will be sorted by original object's created time order, not the animation setting order.
  • Workaround: adjust the animations in the pasted object.
  • Note:
  • If the whole page is copied and pasted, the animation's order will be correct. Portrait orientation might be changed when opening Freelance files
  • If a SmartSuite Freelance file which is set with Portrait page orientation is opened by Lotus Symphony, the page orientation might be changed to Landscape.
  • Workaround: Users can modify the page orientation in the page properties dialog. ODF file association is overwritten
  • ODF(.odt, .ott, .ods, .ots, .odp, and .otp) or OO1.0(.sxw, .sxi, .sxc, .stw, .sti, .stc) file types are overwritten when you install Lotus Symphony. If you want to change the association, consult your system administrator.
  • The following gives one possible way to change the association of certain file extensions:
  • In Finder, right-click a file with the extension of which the association you want to change, and click Get Info.
  • In the Open With section, click the program that you want to use to open the file, or click Other... to choose the program on a disk.
  • Click Change All... and click continue to confirm the change.
  • Some customized Preferences settings are not kept after upgrade
  • If you are internal users of previous Lotus Symphony release on Mac OS X, some Lotus Symphony customized preferences settings will be lost after upgrade. Users need to recover the preferences settings manually. The default settings will remain unchanged after upgrade.
  • Workaround: Reconfigure those customized preferences settings manually after upgrade. he Package For The Web utility only supports English
  • The very first unpack progress dialog from PFTW (Package For The Web) utility doesn't support translation, so it always keeps in English.
  • UI labels may be truncated with an ellipsis at the end
  • UI labels may be truncated with an ellipsis (...) at the end. To work around this issue, hover your mouse over the truncated label text, and the full text will be shown as a hover tip.
  • Microsoft OLE Object cannot be pasted into Lotus Symphony
  • Objects like shape and Chart from Microsoft Office 2008 on Mac OS X can't be pasted into Lotus Symphony as Microsoft Office Object through paste special. Lotus Symphony can crash in presentations.
  • Workaround: They can be pasted into Lotus Symphony as graphic. Symphony crashes when working with edit Menu on print dialog like below
  • Click "File->Print" to launch Print dialog, then click the "PDF" button in the low left corner of the dialog and select "Edit Menu". Click "+" button, then click "Cancel" in "Open" dialog, Symphony is frozen.
  • No Symphony entry in the recent application list under "Apple->Recent items"
  • Following Key combinations don't work due to the conflict between Symphony and Mac OS X system:
  • Cmd+H Align text to center
  • Shift+F10 Context menu
  • Shift+F11 Show style list dialog
  • Shift+F12 Start a bullet list
  • Workaround: They can be accessed through main menu or context menu.
  • Following Key combinations do not work in Symphony home page.
  • Cmd+O Pop up "Open" dialog
  • Cmd+W Close current tab
  • Cmd+Shift+W Close all opened tabs
  • Help menu doesn't respond quickly.
  • Sometimes, it might take a couple of seconds before the drop-down menu displays after clicking Help on the main menu.
  • Symphony must be closed before installing a new version.
  • While installing Symphony, make sure that previous version is not running.
  • Symphony might crash when pasting the text copied from OpenOffice.org 3.0 as OLE object.
  • Copy some text from the Writer of OpenOffice.org 3.0, then paste them into Lotus Symphony Presentations as OLE object using paste special. Symphony might crash.

New in IBM Lotus Symphony 1.2 Beta (Nov 7, 2008)

  • Performance enhancements:
  • Improved .ods and .xls files loading performance.
  • Improved .ods files saving performance.
  • Usability enhancements:
  • Enhanced performance optimization options usability by adding Symphony system tray icon.
  • Enhanced exported PDF accessibility by adding structural tags and attributes for document elements.
  • Enhanced BIDI support in Spreadsheet.
  • Added user interface language support in regional settings preferences page.
  • Enabled creating a hyperlink to local documents in all three editors.
  • Associated numbering and bullet style to paragraph properties in Documents.
  • Enhanced new page creation usability in Presentations.
  • Significant enhancements on DataPilot in Spreadsheets.
  • Installation:
  • Lotus Symphony GA is available on Ubuntu.
  • Provided Lotus Symphony Debian packages on Ubuntu.
  • Provided Lotus Symphony RPM packages on SuSe and RedHat.
  • On-line Help Enhancements:
  • Enhanced help content for Presentations.
  • Symphony information center is available in http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/symphony/v1r1/index.jsp where you can find help contents and other related resources.
  • Website:
  • Added Business Partner page.
  • Re-designed Buzz section, Plug-ins section, and Gallery Landing page.
  • Key Bugs Fixes - Defects reported on the Symphony Forum:
  • Incorrect Library name appears in Template Organizer.
  • Portrait page in a PRZ document becomes landscape orientation while opening with symphony.
  • Toggling between centimeters and percentages display for width and height changes size of images.
  • Numbers format is unable to be saved to spreadsheet files.
  • The "File | Recent Files" menu is not wide enough to entirely display long file names.
  • Crop Function doesn't work properly in Symphony presentations.
  • Update all Links leads to crash while opening a .doc file.
  • Lines are overwritten with the sample doc file.
  • While opening files with Symphony which have already been opened in other applications, they should be read-only as expected.
  • Symphony crashes when opening a WordPro document.
  • Text copied from Symphony to MS Word uses non-breaking spaces by default.
  • Text become tremendously smaller after copy/paste in Input Line.
  • The shown results of formula cells are different from OO and MS Excel while opening a .xls file with Symphony.
  • Redundant page "Insert Slides/Objects" appears in Online Help.
  • Can not open a special spreadsheet file successfully.
  • Try to open a special excel file with Symphony, it fails and other Symphony tab windows close.
  • Measurement unit in sidebar and property window should be consistent.
  • The X axis can't display well in Symphony if the x axis type is data (such as 2008/04/21).
  • Korean characters display incorrectly on Ubuntu.
  • Language Related Fixes:
  • [BIDI]Wrong location values display on OLE Object properties dialog in Symphony spreadsheet under RTL environment.
  • [BIDI]The title of Mail merge progress dialog is LTR under RTL environment.
  • Symphony crashes when input some contents into Title text box in a presentation document and vertically split the document window under BiDi environment.
  • Korean characters display incorrectly on Ubuntu.
  • Key Bugs Fixes - Lotus Symphony Documents:
  • Symphony freezes while opening one special doc and switching to "Online Layout".
  • The fly objects is removed or their anchor position is modified when show/hide some text-deleted empty paragraphs with fly objects anchored to them.
  • An empty text paragraph is appended to the end of the text deletion after show/hide a text deletion.
  • Key Bugs Fixes - Lotus Symphony Presentations:
  • Symphony crashes when clicking "demote bullet" button or close the "preview" dialog in outline view.
  • The layout of pages mess up when opening an .odp(created by Symphony) document by OpenOffice.
  • Symphony crashes when remove/preview the animation effect in "order of animation effects" dialog.
  • Symphony crashes if clicking "display" button for consecutive two times on "insert new pages from file" dialog.
  • Symphony pop-ups error message and crashes when export a presentation file to PDF.
  • The animation effect "change font color" in .ppt file gendered incorrectly in Symphony presentations.
  • Key Bugs Fixes - Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets:
  • Labels of chart's X-Axis is incorrect while opening a .xls file with Symphony.
  • Sheet links become invalid range when editing in the .xls file with symphony.
  • "YYYY/MM/DD" cannot be automatically recognized as a Date under US locale.
  • Symphony can not open a spreadsheet file.
  • Instant filter couldn't filter all column sometimes.
  • Key Bugs Fixes - Programmability:
  • Symphony crashes when run the com.ibm.productivity.tools.samples.views sample plugin and then insert fontworks in sample editor.
  • Key Bugs Fixes - General usage:
  • A couple of script.xlb error dialogs pop up when saving document the first time.
  • The focus doesn't move out from Western field as pressing Tab/Shift+Tab key on "IBM Lotus Symphony->Language Setting->Languages" preference view.
  • Changes in preferences can't be remembered after Symphony restarts with XPD preload enabled.
  • Symphony crashes when repeatedly opening a .ppt file and closing it during loading process for some times.
  • The 3D effect gets lost when saving a Symphony document with both inserted mail fields and 3D effect via "Finish Merge->Save" button on Mail Merge sidebar and reopen it.
  • Symphony freezes while saving a document via "Ctrl+S" to local directory where another document with same name exists,and choose Cancel on Documents-Save dialog.