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openoffice.org package

[edgy + 1] use cairo canvas

Bug #66745 reported by Pavel Rojtberg on 2006-10-18

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	openoffice.org (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

screenshot: http://tml-blog.blogspot.com/2006/10/cairo-canvas-in-openofficeorg-on.html
upstream:
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=70519

tml: "It will be in the Novell Edition of OO.o 2.0.4 for Windows when that is released, that's certain."

if novell thinks that patch is ok for 2.0.4, perhaps we can have it too?

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Martin Soto (soto255) wrote on 2006-10-19: Cairocanvas is already integrated into UNIX OO, but not activated!

The blog comment you are referring to is about the *Windows* version of OO. Under Linux, cairocanvas has been available for some time now. As far as I can tell, the Unix version has had it since at least 2.0.3, as these release notes show: http://development.openoffice.org/releases/2.0.3.html (search for "cairo" inside the page.)

However, looking at /usr/share/doc/openoffice.org-impress/changelog.Debian.gz in my edgy installation (last updated yesterday) the Debian package deactivated cairocanvas around 2.0.0 (the reason is not dicussed in the changelog) and never reactivated it.

It would be great if Ubuntu could give this feature a try, either for the upcoming Edgy release or for a future update, since it makes a huge difference when making presentations.

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Matthias Klose (doko) wrote on 2007-03-07:

please recheck with 2.2