This is great, I hope Chart continues to improve. Personally, the thing I need the most is being able to click on a series, have it highlighted in the columns of data and drag some corner of that selection to change the data plotted. Now when I want to add a new data point to continue the graph I have to go through a lot of clicks and windows. A lot of time lost.

Posted by Jolit on January 30, 2009 at 04:36 PM CET #

Ah, yes. That is what issue 12802 is about. You are welcome to add your vote!
http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=12802

Posted by Ingrid Halama on January 30, 2009 at 05:21 PM CET #

I just can say great. I love to see such things in OOo/Calc. When OOo 3.0 was released I completely switch to this office suit at work (R&D). Previously I had a mixture (20% MS Office & 80% OOo @ work, 100% OOo @ home). Compatibility issues still remain (even with the import plug-ins for MS Word) but in most cases I can avoid problems. The error bar improvements were may main reason for me to switch.
However, the new features are very useful to, for example plotting of missing values. I certainly will use that.

Keep up the good work.

HolgA

Posted by HolgA on January 30, 2009 at 06:16 PM CET #

The antialiasing looks great!

Posted by Andrew Ziem on January 30, 2009 at 07:06 PM CET #

Awesome improvements to Chart component. Any progress on the Bibliography components. I switched the entire college (over 2000 seats) to OOo and having a bibliographic component will help us to win over the few remaining pockets of resistance.

Posted by IJRamirez on January 30, 2009 at 10:50 PM CET #

@IJRamirez,
what is your current solution?
We suggest our students Bibus¹ in bioscience and medical science. I can say that OOo and Bibus have a quite good integration which means work comes quite handy with the both. A colleague from another department reported that they have quite good success with Zotero². But I cannot comment on that. The same colleague told me that another tool, called JabRef³, can export bibliography entries as *.ods files which makes them available as data source for OpenOffice.org.
To my knowledge all the mentioned tools can handle EndNote data to a certain satisfying extend. However, there still seems to be an issues during the export to MS Word and reimport to OOo.

Regards
HolgA

[1] http://bibus-biblio.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
[2] http://www.zotero.org/support/openoffice_integration
[3] http://jabref.sourceforge.net/

Posted by HolgA on February 01, 2009 at 06:20 PM CET #

@IJRamirez and to some extends HolgA: you are out of topic!

Developers dealing with component A have most of the time no idea about component B.
So, please consider this blog as it is: when someone announces something specific, you can only ask about is announced.
Not about completely different OOo topics.

Also reading GullFOSS these days I notice more and more this kind of reactions:
Someone announces a new feature XY in component A. Reactions are "Yes but WHY is feature Z STILL not implemented yet in component B"?

My comments on this:
1) Don't consider you are "talking to OOo" here but to individuals who are *just a part* of OOo.
So asking for the bibliography in a Chart announcement doesn't make much sense (BTW: it's the same as a thread in a newsgroup)
2) "Still not" and "why": here is an explanation "why" those are the wrong questions ;)
http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/why_all_issues_are_equal

Regards
ES

Posted by es on February 02, 2009 at 02:21 PM CET #

ES your ranting took way more space than my original comment. My entire posting was 3 lines while your ranting took over 16 lines. You are contradicting yourself by responding to my question. What about some politeness from your part? In case you missed it, I think that improvements to the Chart component are awesome.

Posted by ijramirez on February 02, 2009 at 11:37 PM CET #

I have no problem with a short trip to a different topic. Someone else was so nice to answer the question. Relax everybody and enjoy the new features :-) .

Posted by Ingrid Halama on February 03, 2009 at 09:53 AM CET #