The Document Foundation announces the launch of LibreOffice 3.5, which they themselves have classified as "The best free office suite ever", which is loaded with interesting news for the end user.
Writer
- A new built-in grammar checker for English and other languages.
- Enhanced features for typography in professional-looking documents.
- A window with the word counter that is updated in real time.
- New header, footer and page UI.
Impress / Draw
- The PPT / PPTX Shapes and Smart Art importer is improved.
- New feature to include multimedia / color palettes in ODF documents.
- A new screen switch for the presenter's console.
- New improved end of line for diagrams.
- Import filter for Microsoft Visio.
Calc
- Support for up to 10.000 sheets.
- A new multi-line entry area.
- New Calc functions conform to the ODF OpenFormula specifications.
- Better performance when importing files from other office suites.
- Multiple selections in autofilter.
- Unlimited number of conditional formatting rules
Base
- A new native driver for PostgreSQL integrated.
Now also included for the first time in LibreOffice the option to know if there are new updates for the online office suite among many other options and bug fixes.
You can download the new version from this link. New features and enhancements are described in the infographic that can be downloaded from: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/116590/lo35-infofinal.pdf.
Great! I liked the new Base feature. Now to compile D:
Great news!!!
I had been following it with RC3, and they say that this new branch of libreoffice improves the import of microsoft formats, for those who were complaining about docx ...
Hopefully that person we know who he is is already happy
Sure you will find new problems, but that does not remove the fact that they have done a great job, and that they continue to improve support for these proprietary formats.
Only Gentoo and Slackware are perfect
I think it does not take any improvement, I just tested it with the .docx and with the tables, spacing and some fonts theme, it continues to deform the document mhh ..
Well, since you and I have the same problem (the bad host) we understand each other so you should use it so that your teachers use LibreOffice and thus not use Word hahaha
Lol ahahaha xD.
Pufff, what excellent news:
A new built-in grammar checker for English and other languages.
At last, what I always wanted TT, I just hope it is not a botch XD
Good news. The truth is that this suite is getting better and better, and it does the job mostly well, at least in my case I don't miss MS Office at all.
It paints very good, although I am still waiting for a facelift in the interface. But anyway, for me, who only use writer to work, it's the best office suite (even better than Word and its shitty ribbon, a nightmare for writers).
Two things that in my opinion LO still lacks to be perfect:
-Possibility to choose between the classic interface and a new one with an air to the «Ribbon».
-Better compatibility with files .docx, xlsx, etc (I know that it is very difficult to achieve, but anyway ...).