YEESSSSSSSS!! Announcing CrossOver Office, version 1.2 (fwd)

Jon Hall maddog at li.org
Wed Aug 7 21:18:57 EDT 2002 

For those of you who said:

	"Heck with MS Office, all I need is Quicken (or QuickBooks)....."

March on, MacDuff!!

md

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Subject: Announcing CrossOver Office, version 1.2
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Greetings,

I am pleased to announce the newest version of CrossOver Office -
Version 1.2.  With version 1.2, we have added support for Quicken
and Visio 2000.  We have also fixed a large number of bugs; I
have included a full change log for you to review.

As a customer, you are entitled to a free download of this
version of CrossOver Office.  You can simply go to
http://support.codeweavers.com and login with the email
address you used while ordering CrossOver.  Once logged in,
you can select the 'download' link and receive a new copy
of the software.

Additionally, we have introduced a new ability for
our customers to purchase replacement CDs.  Any customer
can go to 
    http://secure.codeweavers.com/store/
and log in with the same user name and password they use for
the support ticket system, and from there order a
replacement CD for $10.  We hope that this provides those
customers that bought CDs with a meaningful way of
receiving an upgrade (without making us broke).

Finally, I want to thank you once again for your support
of CodeWeavers.  

Cheers,

Jeremy

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 * CrossOver Office 1.2.0 - 2002/08/07

    Support for Quicken.
    Support for Visio 2000.
    Support for QuickBooks 2000 and QuickBooks Pro 6.0.
    Improving support for international versions of MS Office:
        Includes specific fixes for Greek, Brazillian, Bulgarian,
        and several more.
        Includes a fix to allow the use of Unicode file names.
    Enable the Office 2000 Service Pack, Release 1, to install smoothly.
    Allow the user to change the location of the "My Documents"
        directory, set default to the home directory.
    Major bug fix that corrects occasional hangs during Office
        installations.
    Started work on FreeBSD support (not there yet :-(  ).
    Clipboard handling improvements (should fix some cut & paste
        issues).
    More font handling improvements.
    Automate the version number used by buildrpm.sh.
    Better handle Mime types and descriptions.
    Improve upgrade handling (should make the 1.x --> 1.2 process a
        bit smoother).
    Fix bugs involving paths with spaces.
    Fix menu and desktop handling, notably for Debian and KDE3. This
        includes adding the ability to recreate the menus and icons.
    Fix for Insert->Picture->Clipart.
    Fixed bugs related to installations needing the CD.  For
        example, you can now add the Analysis toolpack in Excel.
    Improve behaviour of cxoffice_reset script and add a '-f' option=20
        to eliminate the prompt.
    Fixed a bug in Excel handling certain files.
    Now compatible with FreeType 2.0.x and 2.1.x, which helps if not=20
        using the internal FreeType library.
    Improved installation support for some non supported applications.
    Add A3 paper size.
    Get the initial paper size from the locale information.
    Major improvements in time zone handling which improves=20
        Outlook calendaring
    Fixed a bug with IE displaying PNG images (requires IE reinstall, thoug=
h)
    Fixed a bug with IE crashing right away (but bug may sometimes=20
        recur, added FAQ to tell user how to repair situation)
    Many other bug fixes.


 * CrossOver Office 1.1.0 - 2002/06/11

   Improved on-screen font rendering, especially in small types.
        Our internal FreeType library now includes Apple's patented
        hinting technology so that fonts will render as cleanly and
        crisply as on Windows.
   Very much improved printing quality. Now the fonts used for=20
        printing always match the fonts used for on-screen display.=20
        Printed documents and should match Windows printouts.
   Improved support for non U.S. versions of Office:
        Added support for deadkeys.
        Better detection/installation of non English 'SETUP.EXE' files.
   Fully support multi-user (i.e. root) installations, including in
        NFS environments.
   Improved support for remote displays, in particular non Intel
        (big endian) X terminals.
   Added support for Internet Explorer 5.5 as well as 5.0 when
        installed as part of Office 2000.
   Major bug fixes in Outlook and Internet Explorer.
   Added a new facility to secure Outlook by preventing it from=20
        launching external applications.
   Improved the Wine socket handling. cxoffice_reset should not be
        necessary anymore after a crash. The bugs which prevented
        cxoffice_reset from working correctly in 1.0.0 have been
        fixed too.
   Detect and setup CD drives, including multi-cd configurations.
   Detect and optionally fix fstab CD drive entries that do not
        include the 'unhide' and 'user' options. This solves an issue=20
        with some MS Office CDs that include 'hidden' files.
   Fix: Make Internet Explorer work in multi-user configurations.
   Fix: Make the Outlook account wizard work.
   Fix: Display of icons and images in Outlook.
   Fix: Powerpoint should not longer issue errors when saving files.
   Fix: Word 97 should no longer issue the 'unable to save' error.
   Fix: The equation editor should work in Word 97.
   Fix: Office 95 should now install. But note that its operation=20
        has not been tested.
   Fix: Some movement keys (home, etc) would not work with=20
        Numlock set.
   Fix: Building RPMs on non i386 kernels.
   Improved Visual Basic script support in all Office applications.
   Improved the Office 97 installation process.
   Improved the KDE, Gnome and Mailcap associations handling. In
        particular, associations should now work with Mozilla and
        Netscape 7.
   Improved drag and drop support.
   Improved handling of applications which require a 'reboot' during
        their installation process.
   Improved the uninstaller. It should no longer leave any KDE, Gnome
        or other setting behind.
   Added a menu entry to perform a simulated reboot.
   Added a script to manually create icons, if they have been lost.
   A minor fix that improves Spaceward Ho! behavior.
        (but doesn't fix it, yet...)
   Many, many more fixes and improvements.


 * CrossOver Office 1.0.0 - 2002/03/27

   Fixed chart handling in Excel.
   Fixed ruler problem in Word.
   Fixed a bug preventing the use of the custom dictionary in Word.
   Fixed bug that was preventing CD ejection after installing CrossOver=20
         Office from a CD.
   Changed default paper size to letter and fixed the margins.
   Remove all CrossOver Office menu entries when uninstalling.
   Added support for multi-user installs.
   Make it possible to build an RPM for site installations.
   X is no longer necessary for installing/removing such RPMs.

 * CrossOver Office 1.0.0 beta1 - 2002/03/19

   The documentation is now included.
   Included a known good version of freetype with the
         installation in order to overcome freetype bugs.
   Support for root installs is better, but not
         yet perfect.  This includes the addition of the
         'buildrpm.sh' tool.
   Fix many Office97 bugs.
   Understand the process for installing Office97,
         upgrade edition (but it's not yet documented;
         it's tricky).
   Add command line links to make it easy to
         start winword, excel, etc.
   Fix resize logic (make it faster, reduce bugs).
   Fix bugs with '.xxx' directory names.
   Fix bugs in many dialogs where text was being truncated.
   Fix the $DISPLAY test in .mailcap files.
   Fix some installations where wine wouldn't start.
   Fix some scrolling issues.
   Make all of the Office 2000 wizards work.
   Fix several 'gdb' style crashes during Office installation.
   Only unmaximize managed windows, since unmanaged windows have an=20
         unmaximize button.  Auto un-maximize in window managers that
         don't support maximization.
   Make shortcuts KDE 1.x compatible.
   Many other bug fixes too numerous to mention.

 * CrossOver Office 0.9.0 beta1 - 2002/03/11

   Text changes suggested by Steve Fox.
   Other minor text/help changes.

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