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LibreOffice 3.3 OpenOffice ready to challenge

January 26th, 2011 Leave a comment Go to comments

The Document Foundation, coordinating the development of LibreOffice, a new office suite, free and open, has reached an important milestone of development significantly earlier than expected.

LibreOffice 3.3 released this week: is the first, stable version ready. More 100 belonging to the old project developers of OpenOffice have been attracted to this new challenge, especially after Oracle got the best of everything, and while there is clearly still under construction the foundation and the community, has achieved this outstanding milestone in a short time. I just installed on my PC and soon on this blog I will write a complete article on LibreOffice 3.3

LibreOffice 3.3 provides several new unique features, such as:

  1. the ability to import and work with SVG
  2. an easy way to give a format to the title pages and their numbering in Writer
  3. A navigation tool for easy and friendly Writer
  4. improved ergonomics in Calc for spreadsheets and management cell
  5. import filters documents made with Microsoft Works and Lotus Word Pro

In addition, many large areas are already included in the installation, providing import PDF, Report a builder of better, and much more. A complete and detailed list of all the new features offered by LibreOffice 3.3 can be viewed on the web page: http://www.libreoffice.org/download/new-features-and-fixes/

LibreOffice 3.3 supply all the new features in OpenOffice.org 3.3, as:

  1. standard PDF font embedding in PDF documents
  2. i nuovi font Liberation Narrow
  3. increased protection of documents in Writer and Calc
  4. automatic decimal format “General” in Calc
  5. 1 million rows in a spreadsheet
  6. new options for importing CSV in Calc
  7. insert drawing objects in Charts
  8. hierarchical axis labels for graphs
  9. Improved management layout of the slides in Impress
  10. new releases more user-friendly interface
  11. colored sheet tabs in Calc

Many of these new features, were inserted by members of the team LibreOffice before the formation of the Foundation Document.

Source: blog.documentfoundation.org

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