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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: 3, Insightful) by Lester on Saturday July 29 2017, @01:46PM (2 children)

    by Lester (6231) on Saturday July 29 2017, @01:46PM (#546247) Journal

    File size is good accomplishment, but that's not the most important.

    What about about slowness? What about buggy import OOXML? What about little buggy things like unexpected tables behavior?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 29 2017, @03:08PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 29 2017, @03:08PM (#546275)

    Slowness? Sure, on a 386 running off a rusty HDD.

    Buggy import OOXML? The problem with OOXML is the export (on other office suites), Micro$oft doesn't follow its own "standard".

    Care to elaborate on the tables thing?

    • (Score: 2) by Immerman on Sunday July 30 2017, @05:22PM

      by Immerman (3985) on Sunday July 30 2017, @05:22PM (#546732)

      If your computer has a non-rusty HDD then you have a bigger problem on your hands (SSDs being an unrelated technology)