OpenOffice.org v1.1 RC

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OpenOffice.org is the open source project through which Sun Microsystems is releasing the technology for the popular StarOffice productivity suite. It is an international office suite that will run on all major platforms and provide access to all functionality and data through open-component based APIs and an XML-based file format. It establishes the necessary facilities to make this open source technology available to the developer community.

a "talkback" style crash reporter to collect stacktrace and error information
new command line parameter -start to automatically start a presentation after the document is loaded
ability to update existing OpenOffice.org 1.0.x single user installations
support for drawing objects in headers and footers
an example XSLT filter for Office 2003 XML format
support for MS Excel 95 and older form controls
UNO python bridge - python is now a first class language for creating UNO components for
OpenOffice.org
built in spell checking dictionaries for English (UK) and Italian
built in hyphenation support for Danish, English (UK), German and Russian
integrated Bitstream Vera fonts
improved spelling suggestions using n-gram scoring