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LibreOffice 5.4 Released with New Features for Writer, Calc and Impress

posted by martyb on Saturday July 29 2017, @08:44AM   Printer-friendly
from the sweet-suite? dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Berlin, July 28, 2017 – The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 5.4, the last major release of the LibreOffice 5.x family, immediately available for Windows, macOS and Linux, and for the cloud. LibreOffice 5.4 adds significant new features in every module, including the usual large number of incremental improvements to Microsoft Office file compatibility.

Inspired by Leonardo da Vinci's "simplicity is the ultimate sophistication", LibreOffice developers have focused on file simplicity as the ultimate document interoperability sophistication. This makes ODF and OOXML files written by the free office suite more robust and easier to exchange with other users than the same documents generated by other office suites.

Thanks to the efforts of developers, the XML description of a new document written by LibreOffice is 50% smaller in the case of ODF (ODT), and around 90% smaller in the case of OOXML (DOCX), in comparison with the same document generated by the leading proprietary office suite. Additional details in the file simplicity backgrounder: https://nextcloud.documentfoundation.org/s/5Oe8guDN0XSS7h8.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by driverless on Saturday July 29 2017, @10:21AM (2 children)

    by driverless (4770) on Saturday July 29 2017, @10:21AM (#546204)

    Thanks to the efforts of developers, the XML description of a new document written by LibreOffice is 50% smaller in the case of ODF (ODT), and around 90% smaller in the case of OOXML (DOCX), in comparison with the same document generated by the leading proprietary office suite.

    On the one hand it's good that LibreOffice produces smaller files, but then given the totally insane XML that MS Office generates (try looking at the raw XML for a DOCX some time), crowing about this is a bit like making fun of the village idiot.

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 29 2017, @03:05PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 29 2017, @03:05PM (#546273)

    Just remember that the village idiot has 75% approval rating on desktop... thanks to people's ignorance and inertia.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 30 2017, @06:30AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 30 2017, @06:30AM (#546579)

      It's sort of a self-perpetuating cycle. In IT, we know that the vast majority users expect Outlook, Word, Excel, and Powerpoint, so we only offer full support for those programs. I know that I, for one, do not want to support the user who wants to show how technically-inclined and smart they are by using LibreOffice but will put forth about zero effort to learn it on their own and regularly demonstrate ignorance of the features Word and Excel have.

      I wonder who decided that you need to be smrt to use a computer and that anybody who uses a computer without needing their hand held every five minutes must be rly smrt.

      So also add stupidity to that list. Not because you have to be smrt to use a computer, but because of the people who are too stupid to realize that their notion that using a computer makes one a mathematical genius to rival the greats of history is wildly inaccurate.