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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).


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  • (Score: 2) by Bill Dimm on Thursday February 02 2017, @11:57PM

    by Bill Dimm (940) on Thursday February 02 2017, @11:57PM (#462184)

    I used outline mode in Word once in the 90s and found it to be inferior to a program I had used on the Amiga 1000 back in the 80s. I haven't tried outlining in Word or LibreOffice lately. I've been using Xmind, which is pretty good (similar capability to the program on the Amiga, plus more bells and whistles).

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by darnkitten on Friday February 03 2017, @02:42AM

    by darnkitten (1912) on Friday February 03 2017, @02:42AM (#462214)

    Everything was better on Amiga. :)

  • (Score: 2) by tadas on Friday February 03 2017, @02:57AM

    by tadas (3635) on Friday February 03 2017, @02:57AM (#462217)

    I used outline mode in Word once in the 90s and found it to be inferior to a program I had used on the Amiga 1000 back in the 80s

    I still have a soft spot in my heart for KAMAS (the pretentiously-named "Knowledge And Mind Amplifying System") outline software that ran under CP/M, and was actually also a FORTH interpreter. I didn't say that Word outline mode was the *best* outline software I've ever used, just that it is the only thing I've found out there *today* that does the job for me.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 03 2017, @03:50AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 03 2017, @03:50AM (#462226)

    XMind (dual licensed) [xmind.net]

    For licensees that wish to distribute XMind 3, modify the source code, and/or build extensions, the [Eclipse Public License v1.0] can be used to maintain copyleft of the original code base while encouraging innovation with commercial and other open source offerings incorporating XMind.

    At the same time, for licensees that are concerned with incompatibility between the EPL and GPL, we are providing the LGPL as an option to license XMind.

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    • (Score: 2) by tadas on Friday February 03 2017, @04:18PM

      by tadas (3635) on Friday February 03 2017, @04:18PM (#462455)

      What does this Xmind, which from the web site looks like a Powerpoint substitute, have to do with outlining?

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 03 2017, @07:26PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 03 2017, @07:26PM (#462544)

        Bill Dimm said that he uses it in that capacity.
        I took him at his word.

        That said, up the (meta)thread, DannyB notes that he knew a gal who used Mac Paint to do "word processing".

        Different strokes for different folks.

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        • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday February 07 2017, @02:29PM

          by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday February 07 2017, @02:29PM (#464059) Journal

          I didn't know her personally. I recall the story from a Mac publication from the mid 1980's. I don't even remember which one. I don't believe it was that she though the MacPaint approach superior. Just that she didn't know any better. At least I hope so.

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