LibreOffice 3.3 Released

By , Published January 25, 2011

The first stable release of the free office suite ‘LibreOffice’ is now available for download.

Forked from OpenOffice late last year, LibreOffice 3.3 provides users with the familiar set of applications – albeit with greatly improved features such as: -

  • Import and work with SVG files
  • Easy way to format title pages and their numbering in Writer
  • Improved Navigator Tool for Writer
  • Improved ergonomics in Calc for sheet and cell management
  • Microsoft Works and Lotus Word Pro document import filters.

A detailed breakdown of new features in LibreOffice 3.3 can be found @ libreoffice.org/download/new-features-and-fixes

Download LibreOffice

Enough with the chit chat how do you get a-hold of it? LibreOffice 3.3 can be downloaded in .deb format from libreoffice.org or, for Ubuntu 10.10 users, installed from the LibreOffice PPA using the following commands: -

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install libreoffice

Ubuntu 11.04 testers will already have LibreOffice installed as it undergoes evaluation for as OpenOffice’s replacement.

Related posts:

  1. LibreOffice Ubuntu PPA makes installation easy
  2. LibreOffice 3.3 RC2 released, available for download
  3. LibreOffice 3.3.0 Beta 2 released
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  • Eugeny

    Microsoft Works? Really? They’ve got too much free time.

    • Matt Sturgeon

      Microsoft Works has always been my favorite oxymoron…

      • http://www.BaloneyGeek.com Boudhayan Gupta

        Touche!

      • http://www.BaloneyGeek.com Boudhayan Gupta

        Touche!

      • http://twitter.com/dissertational Damien McGregor

        Can’t we go one post without someone insulting Microsoft? How immature.

  • http://getopenid.com/huy HUY PHAN

    installing …

    • http://twitter.com/Fitoschido Adolfo Jayme

      reading your comment…

  • http://slimshady91.myopenid.com/ Tarek

    Awesome !

  • http://slimshady91.myopenid.com/ Tarek

    Awesome !

  • http://twitter.com/emzo51 Peter Ivanov

    Looking forward to get home from work to install this!

  • http://twitter.com/emzo51 Peter Ivanov

    Looking forward to get home from work to install this!

  • https://login.launchpad.net/+id/nAXnn4e lucazade
  • https://login.launchpad.net/+id/nAXnn4e lucazade
    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XDBHZIAP2QGZEOYTVDXF3AC2ZM _Maz YayaN_

      is it look good on lucid as the screenshot you give?

      • Anonymous

        Yup. Much nicer change from OOo, even if it’s not THAT drastic yet.

    • http://twitter.com/baedert T N

      We need this. Really.

    • http://shiba89.wordpress.com/ Shiba

      I’m looking forward to a patch that can remove those ugly black lines/borders all over the gui, especially in the status bar. Thank you for this one, though :D

    • http://shiba89.wordpress.com/ Shiba

      I’m looking forward to a patch that can remove those ugly black lines/borders all over the gui, especially in the status bar. Thank you for this one, though :D

    • Anonymous

      Would anyone mind sharing the instructions how to apply this patch?

    • Anonymous

      The patch was applied a few hours ago

  • Matt Sturgeon

    Theres more new features than I was expecting… It’s a shame that they wern’t “advertised” earlier, to build a bigger reputation.. :D

  • http://twitter.com/marhis_ mārcis g.

    when there will be OneNote equivalent in some office suite for ubuntu.

    • Anonymous

      I believe it’s called Tomboy Notes. Totally separate from any office suite, but I started using it out of curiosity, being a 19 y/o student, and found that it is incredibly powerful in terms of note-taking software.

      I never used OneNote, as I didn’t like the way it worked or the way it looked. I guess it’s a matter of preference.

    • Anonymous

      no need because tomboy notes are already installed!!
      for other alternatives see here(http://alternativeto.net/software/microsoft-onenote/?profile=online&platform=linux&license=opensource)

      • http://twitter.com/marhis_ mārcis g.

        I’m using tomboy, but they are just a lot of seperate notes. ok you can make a notebook but it doesnt function like that, you can WikiLink them, but don’t tend to write in such levely manner to explain something in different note etc.
        In OneNote everything is organized by tabs and pages, so you can easily and really fast switch between them, and every time you just open your, for example, study notebook and all of your university subjects are there, ready open.
        the other thing I miss in tomboy is being able to click and start writing anywhere on the page. it is easier to organize whole layout so quickly as texts are in textboxes.
        Pasting from Internet always adds a link, so I always know from where I ve taken something, you can insert pictures, draw, make tables and so on. But I haven’t booted into Win for a year so I should have to be a bit over onenote I guess.
        Actually focuswriter is nice app, as it uses tabs and always opens all previously used ones. I’ve even themed it with a scanned notebook page and more or less handwritten font.
        p.s. I have tried Basket, Jarnal, RedNotebook and none of them suits me as I wished.

        • Matt Sturgeon

          Would you mind filling bugs against TomboyNotes suggesting features/fixes/etc to make it better?
          http://projects.gnome.org/tomboy/getinvolved.html

          • https://launchpad.net/~marrusl Mark Russell

            Now there’s an idea! Can’t hurt to try.

        • https://launchpad.net/~marrusl Mark Russell

          Couldn’t agree more. In a previous life (ahem) I stumbled on OneNote and I still haven’t found anything that matches it. It just worked for me.

          I’ve had luck running it with CrossOver, but unless you are also browing the web with a windows app via CrossOver/Wine, you don’t get the automatic URL adding when pasting from the web.

          It’s such a trifle, and yet it was maybe my favorite feature.

          • Anonymous

            whats the problem in these?(http://alternativeto.net/software/microsoft-onenote/?profile=online&platform=linux&license=opensource)

      • Anonymous

        … or you can use gnote, it is tomboy written in C++ (non C#)

  • Anonymous

    installing. I really hope Loffice makes an effort to fix all that is wrong in OOo…

    • Anonymous

      Yeah.. Like the horrible and over-the-top cluttered interface…
      I like the transition though.. It’s a new start (hopefully) :)

  • http://twitter.com/BlackBytesOrg Fabio Bier

    I felt like it booted a lot faster on Natty than OpenOffice did on Jaunty… but it could also be because of the prettier splashscreen I didn’t bother waiting as much now :P

  • http://forteller.net/ Børge / forteller

    I love that Presenter View now comes bundled withe Impress! Great move! Maybe more Mac OS users will start using LibreOffice because of this (a similar view has been available in Keynote for OS X for a long time)

    http://www.libreoffice.org/assets/presenter.png?r=12095

    • http://casatwain.com/ Paulo José ~paulotwain

      Wow, this is stunning!

    • Anonymous

      If only the slides themselves looked a little better. Look at the jagged lines in that graph.

    • http://cassidyjames.com Cassidy James

      So… how do I get to that view? :(

  • http://torturedutopian.myopenid.com/ TTUTPN

    Hmm, is there a human theme available ? It couldn’t find one in the PPA.

  • http://twitter.com/ThomasBerends Thomas Berends

    removed after I saw the bad GTK+ integration..

    • Anonymous

      Not sure if you tried it, but there is a gtk+ integration package which you can install, makes Libreoffice a whole lot more nicer! Just search for libreoffice-gtk, or wait for Natty..

    • Anonymous

      If you install the libreoffice-gnome package, GTK integration is fine. It’s just silly it’s not installed by default.

      • http://twitter.com/ThomasBerends Thomas Berends

        Nice ;D, Thank you :D

    • http://twitter.com/dissertational Damien McGregor

      That’s hardly the first thing you should worry about.

      • dRewsus

        oooOOooOOOo mysterious! Why do people post stuff like this?
        WHAT IS THE FIRST THING THAT WE SHOULD BE WORRYING ABOUT then?

        • http://twitter.com/Skjebne Eisel Valérian

          Well, I don’t know, but certainly not that. If Linux is to attract new marketshare, stuff like the gtk integration should be installed by default. I downloaded it from the PPA for God’s sake ! That stuff should be installed by default ! Not hidden like that. I mean, who thinks about it when they are not Power Users ?

        • http://twitter.com/Skjebne Eisel Valérian

          Well, I don’t know, but certainly not that. If Linux is to attract new marketshare, stuff like the gtk integration should be installed by default. I downloaded it from the PPA for God’s sake ! That stuff should be installed by default ! Not hidden like that. I mean, who thinks about it when they are not Power Users ?

          • dRewsus

            Fair enough, but I want to know what Damien thinks is the first thing that should be thought of?

          • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_LOR655GR4ZFHCMSV7FW5ROPSAA Cliff W

            Who replaces the default office suite with one from an untrusted PPA except for “power users”? If you want a polished experience, stick to the defaults.

        • http://twitter.com/Skjebne Eisel Valérian

          Well, I don’t know, but certainly not that. If Linux is to attract new marketshare, stuff like the gtk integration should be installed by default. I downloaded it from the PPA for God’s sake ! That stuff should be installed by default ! Not hidden like that. I mean, who thinks about it when they are not Power Users ?

        • http://twitter.com/Skjebne Eisel Valérian

          Well, I don’t know, but certainly not that. If Linux is to attract new marketshare, stuff like the gtk integration should be installed by default. I downloaded it from the PPA for God’s sake ! That stuff should be installed by default ! Not hidden like that. I mean, who thinks about it when they are not Power Users ?

        • http://twitter.com/Skjebne Eisel Valérian

          Well, I don’t know, but certainly not that. If Linux is to attract new marketshare, stuff like the gtk integration should be installed by default. I downloaded it from the PPA for God’s sake ! That stuff should be installed by default ! Not hidden like that. I mean, who thinks about it when they are not Power Users ?

  • Anonymous

    it would be nice to have good integrated reference manager module for libreoffice. the current offerings are not upto the par when compared windows offerings like endnote IMHO.

  • http://twitter.com/Landgenoot Daan

    Please, make it look like more pretty.
    The interface looks like MS office 2003, so this is really old.

    Maybe they have to design something better than MS ribbon.

    • Matt Sturgeon

      As mentioned above – this is their first official release! You cant seriously expect a new interface when there was so much to fix, and include, after Sun and Oracles time in control… They actually have the freedom to improve the product now, and that doesn’t JUST include looks – although looks would be nice in the long-run…

    • Anonymous

      Remember to donate! or purchase a distro that employs LibreOffice developers!

    • Anonymous

      Just in case, you installed libreoffice-gtk right?

      sudo apt-get install libreoffice-gtk
      if you are referring to the buttons looking oldschool, not just the UI.

  • http://adnan.quaium.com Adnan Quaium

    That’s a good news!!

    (it is interesting to see that LibreOffice is started from version 3!)

    • Matt Sturgeon

      LibreOffice is a continuation of OpenOffice.org (although technically a fork), and includes a large proportion of the OOo developers – forced to quit Oracle for their involvement in starting The Document Foundation.

      • http://adnan.quaium.com Adnan Quaium

        That’s true, LibreOffice is heavily dependent on OOo. But if they started from version 1 (such as Libre Office 1.0), it would have looked nicer. :)

        • Anonymous

          Keep in mind that they want to go back to calling it Open Office. The name Libreoffice is just a placeholder until the legal stuff is dealt with. Resultantly, it would be confusing down the road if they didn’t continue the version numbers.

          • http://twitter.com/jlking3 James King

            Is that really a possibility; that the LO team can get the OpenOffice name back? I would think that Oracle would want to keep OpenOffice.org because of the name recognition. Unless they’re banking on people thinking that StarOffice is better. Oracle’s going to try to monetize the things Sun wasn’t able to capitalize on. Getting rid of a known brand name would not be a good move (thinking from Oracle’s view).

          • Carl

            The LO guys were hoping to get Oracle’s participation in TDF. Doesn’t look like they’ll get it.

          • http://twitter.com/jlking3 James King

            Is that really a possibility; that the LO team can get the OpenOffice name back? I would think that Oracle would want to keep OpenOffice.org because of the name recognition. Unless they’re banking on people thinking that StarOffice is better. Oracle’s going to try to monetize the things Sun wasn’t able to capitalize on. Getting rid of a known brand name would not be a good move (thinking from Oracle’s view).

          • http://twitter.com/jlking3 James King

            Is that really a possibility; that the LO team can get the OpenOffice name back? I would think that Oracle would want to keep OpenOffice.org because of the name recognition. Unless they’re banking on people thinking that StarOffice is better. Oracle’s going to try to monetize the things Sun wasn’t able to capitalize on. Getting rid of a known brand name would not be a good move (thinking from Oracle’s view).

          • Anonymous

            Am I the only one who doesn’t want to see LibreOffice associated with OpenOffice? This is a chance for a clean slate here.

          • Anonymous

            I don’t. Schools and Colleges around here are only just beginning to accept OpenOffice…

          • Anonymous

            I agree with Dante, but I also understand your point. I personally like the name LibreOffice more than OpenOffice, just because of the connotations I have with the latter. However, OpenOffice is more or less a household name (where I live) and I think it would take a while to convince people to start using an office suite with a new name, even if it is fundamentally the same thing. Either way, I’m very excited by this project and already extremely impressed with the results in such a short time. The optimisation on my system has been fantastic!

        • Anonymous

          Heavily dependent, umm, that is a mild understatement…

  • http://openid-provider.appspot.com/TheMerkinman Merk

    Now all they need is a better name, and to actually look at that popular UI mockup, it’s been on their mailing list THREE TIMES, yet ignored every time.

    I doubt either will happen as they seem to be much more concerned about being a FOSS program than a GOOD program (not that those two are mutually exclusive)

    • Anonymous

      I appear to have accidentally “liked” this comment, but it’s important to note that I do not. They are getting everything switched over first, along with cleaning up the ridiculous amounts of cruft that are in OOo’s code, and THEN they can look at alternative layouts. You can’t run before you walk, and all that. This is their first “official” release, so don’t you think it might be just a tiny bit premature to expect them to have an entirely new UI in place “RIGHT NAO!”?

      • Alexander Karatarakis

        This^. Well basically, they are making the code more maintainable. It is the correct action to take, because it will make subsequent actions/contributions a lot easier.

      • http://openid-provider.appspot.com/TheMerkinman Merk

        The name was supposed to be something temporary. I would have thought it would change for a final release, much like Minefield -> Firefox.

        I by no means expected them to have implemented an entirely new UI. My disappointment comes from absolutely no comments nor even acknowledgment of the mockups in the three different threads it was posted in.

        • http://casatwain.com/ Paulo José ~paulotwain

          Well, the things aren’t so… The LibreOffice’s design team has been work hard in some really nice icons, branding content, and other things most important to next releases than the proposal mock-ups. But they know the importance of projects like Citrus UI and they are trying make changes gradually to improve the usability issues and improve the UI. :) It’s not just a FOSS project, they actually think about make changes if they are welcome, but i worth a deep study. I’m not saying it to you specifically, but it’s not just “Hey, cool, let’s go to change everything”

          • Daniel Foré

            That’s one of the biggest things that always annoyed me about OO.o, not using the icons that are on the system.

    • Anonymous

      the name is awesome don’t know why people don’t like the name :|

      • http://twitter.com/dojan5 Joel Lundborg

        Yeah, I don’t get it either.
        LibreOffice as in libere/being free. It’s awesome.

        • http://openid-provider.appspot.com/TheMerkinman Merk

          It seems unnecessary to me. Either people don’t care that it’s free or they already know.

          • http://twitter.com/v1rati Virati V

            Exactly. If it’s unnecessary, I don’t see why are people making such a disproportionate fuss about it. :

          • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_LOR655GR4ZFHCMSV7FW5ROPSAA Cliff W

            They probably already know it’s an office suite too, yet that part remains in the name without any complaint.

          • Anonymous

            That too should be removed, just like the new fork of KOffice is called Calligra.

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_RQT3PUR3JN5WJ2ZETREERMBM4M Zamato

      the name is fine. The UI does need a redesign though.

    • Anonymous

      libre means freedom in three languages. Leave it be.

      • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_LOR655GR4ZFHCMSV7FW5ROPSAA Cliff W

        I thought it’s like a lion and a zebra mixed… bred for its skills in magic.

        • Anonymous

          Closed-mind… Te puedo hablar en español si quieres, and I love «libre» word.

      • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_LOR655GR4ZFHCMSV7FW5ROPSAA Cliff W

        I thought it’s like a lion and a zebra mixed… bred for its skills in magic.

      • Anonymous

        I don’t really mind the word “Libre”, it just doesn’t fit to “Office” very much.. it sounds like a tourist ordering a drink at a cuban bar. Just awkward, somehow.

      • http://www.facebook.com/leeraulin Lee Raulin

        I happen to like all three of the languages in which “libre” means “free”…but I still think “Libre Office” sounds clunky and weird. La Oficina Libre maybe, but Libre Office…I don’t know. Just doesn’t flow.

    • http://twitter.com/shanesemler shanesemler

      At least it’s not something like GIMP.

    • http://twitter.com/shanesemler shanesemler

      At least it’s not something like GIMP.

    • http://twitter.com/icalper Ivan Calderon Perez

      A lil’ spanish lesson:
      Free as in beer: Gratis
      Free as in freedom: Libre

      I think its called LibreOffice to avoid the ambiguity of the word “free”.

  • http://openid-provider.appspot.com/TheMerkinman Merk

    Now all they need is a better name, and to actually look at that popular UI mockup, it’s been on their mailing list THREE TIMES, yet ignored every time.

    I doubt either will happen as they seem to be much more concerned about being a FOSS program than a GOOD program (not that those two are mutually exclusive)

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GA32SCFSZWMMPVRDWRVVLXONYQ CRC3

    It hasn’t been uploaded to the ppa yet, it is still in phase RC4.

  • Anonymous

    hip hip hurray!!
    also
    wtf in the global menu it shows ooo.

  • Anonymous

    also the ppa still has rc4.

    • http://twitter.com/saaz_rai Saaz Rai

      RC4 is bit by bit equivalent to the Final release.

    • Anonymous

      Yes, even the name of the .deb file is rc4: LibO_3.3.0rc4_Linux_x86-64_install-deb_en-US but after you install it, it says:
      LibreOffice 3.3.0
      OOO330m19 (Build:6)
      tag libreoffice-3.3.0.4

  • http://twitter.com/benbeu hackepeter

    Works like a charm on my PC since beta 2. Absolutly no problems found yet!

    Keep the nice work on LibreOffice ;-)

  • http://twitter.com/R1skNt R!sk Of V!rus

    Very Awesome !

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_HHS3YNBYUFBBEPUESRLV747QOM Dylan

    Installed… and with the Gnome integration package of course. I like the way you can install the pieces you want and not the whole thing.

    Whats interesting is clicking on Help>>LibreOffice credits…

    As you can see all the people with blue triangles, these are all fresh contributors to the project since it began. Now this I can see is the real reason for creating Libreoffice!

  • Anonymous

    anyone know how much better libreoffice is this compared to lotus symphony?

    • Anonymous

      Hard to compare. I used Symphony for a while, and liked the interface, but had some incompatibilities, and some irritating things, e. g. when I just had not been able to change the default hotkeys. Whether I did not find it, or it is really impossible, i don’t know, anyway I prefer Oo.o/Libreoffice…

    • Anonymous

      Apart from the fact that while LO is zipping around, Lotus Symphony is as slow as a geriatric amputee horse in quicksand.

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_HHS3YNBYUFBBEPUESRLV747QOM Dylan

      Lotus Symphony – better UI, tabs and integrated web browser.

      Libreoffice – better format support and opens faster.

  • Anonymous

    Successful and stress free installation on Maverick :D This is a very important release for LO, but I await the next one with absolutely bated breath.

  • Anonymous

    It is fast. At least on Maverick.

    • Anonymous

      I think that is because all the windows open as plain libreoffice windows then “specialize”

      kinda like stem cells

  • https://launchpad.net/~monkey21stc Zoonk

    finally! Hopefully this allows a better display of docx files… As compared to openoffice…

  • Anonymous

    so does it have perfect compatibility with .doc or .docx? because it seems so when you read their site.

  • https://launchpad.net/~brettcornwall Chauncellor

    Less than one second startup time :)

    • http://twitter.com/appleseedhuman Appleseed Humanity

      It gets better – Go to ‘Tools / Options / Libre Office / Java’ and un-check ‘Use a Java runtime environment.’…..It almost leaves skid-marks.

      • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_LOR655GR4ZFHCMSV7FW5ROPSAA Cliff W

        I got so excited I think *I* left a skid-mark.

        • http://twitter.com/Dave_Child Dave Child

          Thanks for that! Makes it blisteringly fast. I have no idea why anyone would have thought enabling a JRE by default would be a good idea …

      • http://twitter.com/Dave_Child Dave Child

        Thanks for that! Makes it blisteringly fast. I have no idea why anyone would have thought enabling a JRE by default would be a good idea …

  • http://twitter.com/EuropaCar EuropaCar

    i’ve always wondered, how exactly do you pronounce “libreoffice”???

    • Anonymous

      here in America I would say it

      Lee-bray Office

      • http://twitter.com/v1rati Virati V

        I read that in the most gringo accent for some reason. xD

    • http://www.celsius1414.com/ Celsius1414

      Rhymes with ZebraOffice.

    • http://torturedutopian.myopenid.com/ TTUTPN

      Assuming it’s from the French word “libre” which means “free / open”, you should pronounce it “libr”. (with i = short “ee” and no vowel avec “r”)

    • http://twitter.com/rdvonz rob

      To be more helpful:
      leebray office (at least that’s how I say it).
      EDIT: sorry, didn’t see al the replies. My bad.

    • http://alexsocop.tk/ Alex

      You can pronounce it in the spanish way, “Libre” wich means “free/unattached”

      “Lee-bre Office”

      bre is pronounced in the same way you say “bre” in “bread” just omit the “ad” at the end.

  • Anonymous

    This is my first go-around with LibreOffice, and I do like what I see so far. With the exception of the complete lack of theming, I guess, but it’s a young fork. Greater things to come!

    • Anonymous

      sudo apt-get install libreoffice-gtk

      • Anonymous

        You sir, are my hero.

      • Anonymous

        it should be libreoffice-gnome.
        it includes gtk plus icons.

        • Anonymous

          Yup, now you are my hero

          and I suck at package names :P

    • Anonymous

      sudo apt-get install libreoffice-gtk

  • https://launchpad.net/~tim.timwahrendorff rakete

    is it normal that the spelling check does not work or is obvious corrupted?

    I have to use OpenOffice just because of the non working spelling check.. :(

    any idea?

    • Anonymous

      openoffice tends to be selfish and take the spelling and dictionary packages out with it when you uninstall it … and then require them when you install them (I’m pretty sure this is true of the openoffice default in ubuntu)

      So yea, can’t remember the names of the packages though … sorry, any help guys?

      • http://jdevelopthis.blogspot.com Jacky Alcine

        I think it’s the hunspell packages; check your package manager.

  • Anonymous

    This is awesome. It was so freaking quick, not used to this with FLOSS I must say ;)
    Thanks to everyone who contributed, and long life to LO!

  • http://twitter.com/aonaichte Aonaichte

    rhymes with “zebra”? Where I come from that would be like rhymes with Debra-office.

    Like TTUTPN, I can’t help but automatically read the french pronunciation (I’m Scottish), even though it sounds awful (and really should be “office libre”)

    • Anonymous

      It’s just a name, c’mon!

  • http://mario.erphesfurt.de/ mario

    Just installed the raw debian packages. Does the Ubuntu PPA disable [F11] for the stylist, or is it identical?

  • http://twitter.com/appleseedhuman Appleseed Humanity

    Anyone care to advise where we can get that rather classy wallpaper?

    • Waldir Leôncio

      It comes with Ubuntu maverick.

  • Waldir Leôncio

    Just did the switch. It looks a tad faster than OOo, but why does it have this crappy Win98/Office 2003 look? It managed to look even more out of place than OOo!

  • Anonymous

    I might have found one bug, not sure thought. A friend of mine wanted to have Auto Capital for every line, but it was on already <__>

  • Anonymous

    really cool ! and it loads a lot faster too.

  • Anonymous

    really cool ! and it loads a lot faster too.

  • Anonymous

    really cool ! and it loads a lot faster too.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NDQZ7GF2WAR4NSVNRQCOEMWSKM Éderson

    And about mp3 support in (powerpoint) presentations?

    • http://jdevelopthis.blogspot.com Jacky Alcine

      Codes for the Fluendo MP3s aren’t open.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NDQZ7GF2WAR4NSVNRQCOEMWSKM Éderson

    And about mp3 support in (powerpoint) presentations?

  • Anonymous

    Still not sure why this was even started, It doesn’t seem like oracle is planning on killing Ooo since they are celebrating the 10th birthday. Why wouldn’t they just contribute to Ooo instead of having 2 ok office suites there could be one awesome office suite.

    • Anonymous

      Please educate yourself. The story of the fork and the justifications for it are well known, interesting and easy to discover.

  • Anonymous

    Thanks for the instructions Joey! Am enjoying the latest LibreOffice thanks to you.

  • http://yepimhere.tumblr.com/ Marcelo

    Ubuntu Tweak me aviso de su instalación y lo instalo a ver que tal

  • http://www.google.com/profiles/dpcat237 dpcat237

    This day was my birthday :P So I celebrated two things :D

  • Anonymous

    Supah Dupah!!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_G63JC5MD43UH6NHU2ZYYHNQLSE Calvin Hobbes

    hmm… just installed via the ppa as indicated, it uninstalled OOo for me (that was nice) but now, all I get are the startup app. No components are available. (they are all greyed out.) I can choose “open” but get a “no documents” error.

    Not quite ready for prime time I guess? I’ll try again, but I’m not getting my hopes up.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_G63JC5MD43UH6NHU2ZYYHNQLSE Calvin Hobbes

    not ready for prime time I guess – I installed via ppa (-gnome version) and I get the startup app, but no components. I can’t even open a file. (and it politely uninstalled OOo for me – that I was glad of)

    • http://jdevelopthis.blogspot.com Jacky Alcine

      You have to install the rest of the applications.
      Installing, libreoffice-gnome doesn’t install everything.
      After adding the above PPA, run:

      sudo apt-get install libreoffice-*; that should install the entire suite.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_G63JC5MD43UH6NHU2ZYYHNQLSE Calvin Hobbes

    oops, apparently libreoffice-gnome is ONLY an integration package – NOT the office suite. (it would have helped to know that, AND for it not to uninstall OOo in the process. seems that should only be done when installing libreoffice main)

  • Anonymous

    By any chance, does anyone know of a method to get Faenza Icons working with LibreOffice? I’m perfectly happy with using the OOo Faenza icons, I just can’t find out how to switch them to LibreOffice.

    • http://jdevelopthis.blogspot.com Jacky Alcine

      That’s because LibreOffice doesn’t use the same icons in the GTK theming engine; it’s purely Java.

      If the creator of Faenza can edit icons for the editor, then I can see porting.

  • http://twitter.com/AIDS_MARTYR VIP KAIFS

    I;m really sad about this release. I used libre beta and it works fine. After upgrade writer crashes bout 1 time form 5 every time I save document. My work is to write long texts and it very annoying when I have crash every 10-15 minutes

    • http://jdevelopthis.blogspot.com Jacky Alcine

      Try purging your beta and re-installing this candidate.
      How did you install the beta? Via sources?

  • https://launchpad.net/~carbeck Carsten

    When will OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice/Whatever finally get support for OpenType features :-S Graphite is well and good, but there’s just so few fonts that contain support for it, as opposed to all those fonts that contain advanced OpenType features.

    • Anonymous

      I’ve wondered about this myself. OpenOffice.org has been getting requests for this for years, and they still haven’t devised a solution. I’d love to see extensive OpenType support (ligatures, alternate glyphs, etc.) as well as microtypography and paragraph-level hyphenation a la TeX. With better type control, LibreOffice et al. could be decent book self-publishing platform. As for TeX and its variants, well, I suspect most people don’t want to be bothered with the needlessly steep learning curve.

  • http://twitter.com/thevakman Lawrence

    Woot! Good to hear.
    As I side note, I love their icons.

  • http://www.samialtas.somee.com/ samialtas

    I respect LibreOffice project which is much more compatible with Microsoft Office which is an unofficial industrial standard. But what it needs to attract people to switc from Microsoft Office and Apple iWork is a big UI makeover which will make it look like 10 years (or more) younger.

    • http://jdevelopthis.blogspot.com Jacky Alcine

      That’s a point that many address but few attempt to embrace. Such a rehaul of the UI would take an entire team’s effort, and that’s one of the few deficits of community-developed software; if one person can’t start, no one’ll finish.

  • Anonymous

    Another example of the never-ending fragmentation in the Linux world…

    Forking and stagnating instead of true progress? -Check

  • http://www.facebook.com/Debray6379 Ray Whatman

    my biggest problem with openoffice, libreoffice and other based on the same/similar source is .docx formatting {I’m forced to submit ALL my school work for T.A.F.E as .docx} although I prefer libreoffice it as well as the others do not seem to recognise things like rotated text, margins etc of Microsoft Office’s .docx format. I hope something can be done before I’m forced to buy an office suite I don’t want to use. I’m using the office web apps on windows live for now but they are limited.

  • http://www.facebook.com/Debray6379 Ray Whatman

    my biggest problem with openoffice, libreoffice and other based on the same/similar source is .docx formatting {I’m forced to submit ALL my school work for T.A.F.E as .docx} although I prefer libreoffice it as well as the others do not seem to recognise things like rotated text, margins etc of Microsoft Office’s .docx format. I hope something can be done before I’m forced to buy an office suite I don’t want to use. I’m using the office web apps on windows live for now but they are limited.

  • Anonymous

    Question: Does Libre Office support the 3D transtition efect on Impres as Open Office?

 
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