OpenOffice.org 1.0

Dear User

This file contains important information about this program. Please read this information very carefully before starting work.

Notes on Installation
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System Requirements:
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- Microsoft Windows 95, 98, ME, NT (Service Pack 6 or higher), 2000 or XP (Please note: Windows 95 requires a DCOM95 update. For further information, visit http://www.microsoft.com/com/dcom/dcom95/dcom1_3.asp) 
- Pentium compatible PC 
- 64 MB RAM 
- 250 MB available hard disk space 
- 800x600 DPI resolution or higher, at least 256 colors 

You can install OpenOffice.org 1.0 along side of an older version of OpenOffice.org. If you later choose to deinstall a previous version of OpenOffice.org, you must call the setup program of the newer version and run the Repair option. This makes sure that the new version is correctly registered in your system.

Make sure you have enough free memory in your temporary directory.

Changing the User Interface Font
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In OpenOffice.org you can change the font used for screen display and printing by replacing it with a different font installed on your system. This can be done using the font replacement function. Choose Tools - Options - OpenOffice.org - Font Replacement to access this function.

To change the font of the OpenOffice.org user interface, you have to replace the default font "Andale Sans UI" with another font and mark the "always" setting for this replacement.

Refer to the OpenOffice.org Help for a detailed explanation of the dialog.

File Locking
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In the default setting, file locking is turned off in OpenOffice.org. To activate it, you have to set the appropriate environment variables SAL_ENABLE_FILE_LOCKING=1 and export SAL_ENABLE_FILE_LOCKING. These entries are already in disabled form in the soffice script file.

Warning: The activated file locking feature can cause problems with Solaris 2.5.1 and 2.7 used in conjunction with Linux NFS 2.0. If your system environment has these parameters, we strongly recommend that you avoid using the file locking feature. Otherwise, OpenOffice.org will hang when you try to open a file from a NFS mounted directory from a Linux computer.

Using Info-ZIP
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OpenOffice.org uses Info-ZIP to create and unpack the OpenOffice.org installation, as well as for packing and unpacking the OpenOffice.org XML file format. Info-ZIP programs (ZIP, UnZip and other utilities) are available free of charge and can be used in the source code and as an executable program. They can be attained by visiting Anonymous FTP sites such as ftp.uu.net:/pub/archiving/zip/*.

Used / Modified Source Code
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Portions Copyright 1998, 1999 James Clark. Portions Copyright 1996, 1998 Netscape Communications Corporation.

OpenOffice.org Help / User's Guide
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For technical reasons, alterations could have been made to the applications after the User's Guide went to press. The most up-to-date information can be found in the OpenOffice.org Help.



Getting Involved
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The OpenOffice.org Community would very much benefit from your active
participation in the development of this important open source project.

As a User, you are already a valuable part of the suite's development
process and we would like to encourage you to take an even more active
role with a view to being a long-term contributor to the Community.

Registration
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Please take a little time to complete the minimal Product Registration
process when you install the software.  While registration is optional,
we encourage you to register, since the information enables the
Community to make an even better software suite and address User needs
directly.  Through its Privacy Policy, the OpenOffice.org Community
takes every precaution to safeguard your personal data.    

User Survey
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There is also a User Survey located here [link to User Survey in OOo],
which we encourage you to fill out.  The User Survey results will help
OpenOffice.org move more rapidly in setting new standards for the
creation of the next-generation office suite.  Through its Privacy
Policy, the OpenOffice.org Community takes every precaution to safeguard
your personal data.    

Report Bugs & Issues
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The OpenOffice.org Web site hosts IssueZilla, our mechanism for
reporting, tracking and solving bugs and issues.  We encourage all Users
to feel entitled and welcome to report issues that may arise on your
particular platform.  Energetic reporting of issues is one of the most
important contributions that the User Community can make to the ongoing
development and improvement of the suite. 

Subscribe
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Here are a few of the Project mailing lists to which you can subscribe
http://www.openoffice.org/mail_list.html

News: 				announce	(light traffic)
Main user forum: 		discuss		(heavy)
Marketing project: 		marketing	(getting heavy)
General code contributor list: 	dev		(moderate/heavy)
Groupware			groupware	(moderate)

Join the Pioneering Marketing Project
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You can make major contributions to this important open source project
even if you have limited software design or coding experience.  Yes,
you!

The OpenOffice.org Marketing Project is applying both guerrilla and
traditional commercial techniques to marketing open source software, and
we are doing it across language and cultural barriers. 

You can help by joining th Marketing Communications & Information
Network here: http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/marketing/contacts.html
where you can provide point communication contact with press, media,
government agencies, consultants, schools, Linux Users Groups and
developers in your country and local community.

Way to Start
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The best way to start contributing is to subscribe to one or more of the
mailing lists, lurk for a while, and gradually use the mail archives to
familiarize yourself with many of the topics covered since the
OpenOffice.org source code was released back in October 2000.  When
you're comfortable, all you need to do is make an email
self-introduction and jump right in.


your OpenOffice.org Team

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Copyright 2002 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.

This product has been created with contributions from the OpenOffice.org 
community, of which Sun Microsystem Inc. is the founding member. 
OpenOffice.org acknowledges all community members, especially those 
mentioned at http://www.openoffice.org/welcome/credits.html.


