Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

SoylentNews is people

posted by cmn32480 on Thursday February 02 2017, @08:06PM   Printer-friendly
from the that-only-took-10-years dept.

Martin Brinkmann at gHacks reports

LibreOffice 5.3 is the newest version of the popular open source Office suite, and one of the "most feature-rich releases in the history of the application".

The Office suite, available for Windows, Mac, and Linux operating systems, is now also available as a private cloud version, called LibreOffice Online.

LibreOffice, at is[sic] core, is an open source alternative to Microsoft Office. It features Writer, a text editing program similar to Word, Calc, the Excel equivalent, Impress which is similar to PowerPoint, and Draw, which enables you to create graphic documents.

LibreOffice 5.3 ships with a truckload of new features. One of the new features is a new experimental user interface called Notebookbar. This new interface resembles Office's ribbon UI, but is completely optional [submitters emphasis] right now.

In fact, the new user interface is not enabled by default, and if you don't look for it or know where to look, you will probably notice no difference at all to previous versions.

To enable the new Ribbon UI, select View > Toolbar Layout > Notebookbar. The UI you see on the screenshot above is enabled by default, but you may switch it using View > Notebookbar to either Contextual Groups or Contextual Single.

[...] One interesting option that the developers built-in to LibreOffice 5.3 is the ability to sign PDF documents, and to verify PDF document signatures.

[...] The Writer application got some exciting new features. It supports Table styles now for instance, and there is a new Page deck in the sidebar to customize the page settings quickly and directly.

There is also an option to use the new "go to page" box, and arrows in the drawing tools which were not available previously in Writer.

Calc got a new set of default cell styles offering "greater variety and better names", a new median function for pivot tables, and a new filter option when you are inserting functions to narrow down the selection.

The article also has 4 demo videos embedded.

In the comments there, Donutz notes that the Ribbon UI requires the Java Runtime Environment.
Oggy notes that the suite is available from PortableApps. (Martin's site is largely Windows-centric).


Original Submission

 
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
Display Options Threshold/Breakthrough Mark All as Read Mark All as Unread
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
  • (Score: 2) by deimtee on Friday February 03 2017, @10:56AM

    by deimtee (3272) on Friday February 03 2017, @10:56AM (#462317) Journal

    Speaking from the digital print industry:-

    Acrobat 3 (1996) was a great improvement over everything before, but still just a little bit buggy. Design goal was "your piece of paper displayed on the screen".

    Acrobat 4 (2000) was the pinnacle. Rock solid and printed exactly the same everywhere. Could make some text edits with Acrobat Pro, to fix typos etc., but more than that and you went back to the source and fixed it there. If you had Acrobat Reader (free, and back then did not phone home), and could open a document then the printout would look exactly the same.

    Acrobat 5 was a steaming pile of unstable shit that nobody ever used anywhere ever in the entire universe. I think Adobe deny that it ever existed. They were drunk. It was a joke, They were hacked. IT'S NOT THEIR FAULT. [/Blues Bros. Elroy]

    Acrobat 6 (2003) was not as stable as 4, but added some "useful" features so eventually replaced it. (Useful to designers, not the printers) Started to get much more anal about "do you have a licence for this font" so many documents printed with the wrong fonts.(It would substitute fonts that were unlicensed. (also, separate licences for display and print W..T..F.. ))
    I still used 4 for any document it could open.

    I moved on to IT about then, so had much less to do with day to day printing, but my impression from the digital guys is that each version since has slightly improved in stability, while adding features mostly unrelated to printing, but has still not quite reached Acrobat 4's level of rock solid "this is what your piece of paper will look like".

    --
    If you cough while drinking cheap red wine it really cleans out your sinuses.
    Starting Score:    1  point
    Karma-Bonus Modifier   +1  

    Total Score:   2