EuroOffice Dictionary Professional 1.4.1 released

Eastern Asian languages (such as Chinese, Japanese and Korean) rarely use space characters to separate words from each other. The new version of EuroOffice Dictionary recognizes this and tries to match parts of a space separated string to a words in the dictionary if the whole space separated string did not yield a match. This has the side effect that now you can translate parts of compound words if a translation was not found for the whole of the compound word.

(EuroOffice Dictionary Professional does not include any Eastern Asian dictionaries at this time. Advanced users can create new dictionaries or find dictionaries on the Internet and convert them to the required format.)

Currently the recommended way to update the extension is the following:

1. If you have installed any new dictionaries that you then deleted and can not reinstall, or if you have added some new words to dictionaries, you have to back up the dictionary folder. On Microsoft Windows XP this folder is "C:\Documents and Settings\<your user name>\Application Data\OpenOffice.org2\user\uno_packages\cache\uno_packages\<random characters>\EuroOffice_Dictionary_Professional.oxt\dictionaries". On Windows Vista it is "C:\Users\<your user name>\AppData\OpenOffice.org2\user\uno_packages\cache\uno_packages\<random characters>\EuroOffice_Dictionary_Professional.oxt\dictionaries". On Linux and Apple Mac OS X it is "~/.openoffice.org2/user/uno_packages/cache/uno_packages/<random characters>/EuroOffice_Dictionary_Professional.oxt/dictionaries".
2. Download EuroOffice Dictionary Professional. You can simply click the link in the email you have received when you purchased it and the latest version will be downloaded.
   
3. Start OpenOffice.org, open the Extension Manager from the Tools menu, find the EuroOffice Dictionary Professional entry and remove it.
4. Click "Add" and pick the newly downloaded OXT file. Once it is installed, quit OpenOffice.org.
5. Now you can restore the dictionary files you have backed up in step 1. You have to find the dictionary folder again (the "random characters" will be different this time), and copy your files into this folder.

This procedure is admittedly too complicated, and we are working on providing a smoother experience.

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