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Blogger Dedoimedo is known for his fascination with bling and his attention to compatibility with MICROS~1's pseudo-standards. So, how did the most recent version of the popular FOSS office suite fare in his test?
LibreOffice 4.4 review - Finally, it rocks
[...]As a free, open-source and cross-platform solution, LibreOffice allows people to enjoy the world of writing, spreadsheets, presentations, and [the like] without having to spend hefty sums of money. The only problem till now was that it didn't quite work as advertised. Microsoft Office support was, for the lack of a better word, lacking.
[...] The most important part, [it now has] Microsoft Office support
[...]my 182-page [DOCX] document, full of images, references, footnotes, preformatted code, and other cool elements, all of which were initially conceived in LaTeX then transformed to PDF and finally to DOCX looked pretty much spotless. The image quality was a little low, but it has nothing to do with LibreOffice. I was amazed. I had not expected this, and it seems for the first time ever, LibreOffice is a most viable solution for home office use. Blimey.
LibreOffice 4.4 is everything you could have hoped for, and then some. It's beautiful. It's streamlined. It has an improved UI, which offers much more intuitive work flows, resulting in an immediate boost in productivity. It comes with enhanced menus, a more intelligent way of working with styles, easier graphics, copy & paste options, a simpler method of polishing up presentations. Most importantly, it offers a genuinely good support for the proprietary Microsoft file formats, allowing you, for the very first time, to consider LibreOffice as the one and only office suite you'll ever need.
I have never quite expected this. In fact, LibreOffice 4.4 should have been called 5.0, because it is that much better. Perhaps grander changes are needed to justify a full new release. Just think of the possibilities, if we got all this in a single dot revision. Imagine what will happen when LibreOffice finally matures toward the next large release.
One wonders how long it will be till MSFT alters their "standard" so that compatibility is broken again.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 25 2015, @12:11AM
If we took a poll, I'd bet the thing most users of M$Orifice would name as the missing part in the FOSS offerings is email and contact management.
Integration with Electronic Design Automation tools such as KiCad, gEDA, LTSpice, SpiceNG, Quca, Xyne
Nerd. 8-)
CERN is Getting Serious About Development of the KiCad App for Designing Printed Circuits - submitted by gewg_ [soylentnews.org]
A Prezi-like way to do presentations. It's gaining too much momentum
Too much? Sounds like it's time to send out a search & destroy mission on that sucker. 8-)
...and S/N doesn't use BBCode.
Otherwise, a lot of interesting ideas.
You're very generous with the time of the FOSS devs.
...then again, maybe there's a bunch of nerds working on those exact items and they simply aren't ready for the light of day.
-- gewg_
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 25 2015, @02:05AM
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