OpenOffice 1.1.2 released

[george at library.caltech.edu]

OpenOffice, the Open Source free Microsoft Office suite-compatible freeware,
has a new stable release, version 1.1.2.  OpenOffice.org 1.1.2 introduces
the FontOOo Autopilot, which downloads and installs fonts; numerous bugs are
also fixed <http://download.openoffice.org/1.1.2/release_notes_1.1.2.html>.
In addition to English, versions for Czech, Danish, French, German, Japanese
and Slovak are ready now, with other localizations following shortly.

OpenOffice provides an XML-based software platform for word processing,
presentation software, HTML editing, database, and spreadsheet applications.
Operating system support is catholic: Windows, Linux (both x86 and PPC),
freeBSD, and Solaris (both SPARC and x86).

Another nice feature of the OpenOffice suite - native PDF production.

George S. Porter
Sherman Fairchild Library of Engineering & Applied Science
California Institute of Technology
Mail Code 1-43, Pasadena, CA 91125
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