LibreOffice 3.3 released

[Posted January 25, 2011 by jake]

The Document Foundation has announced the release of LibreOffice 3.3, which is the first stable release of the OpenOffice.org fork. "LibreOffice 3.3 brings several unique new features. The 10 most-popular among community members are, in no particular order: the ability to import and work with SVG files; an easy way to format title pages and their numbering in Writer; a more-helpful Navigator Tool for Writer; improved ergonomics in Calc for sheet and cell management; and Microsoft Works and Lotus Word Pro document import filters. In addition, many great extensions are now bundled, providing PDF import, a slide-show presenter console, a much improved report builder, and more besides. A more-complete and detailed list of all the new features offered by LibreOffice 3.3 is viewable on the following web page: http://www.libreoffice.org/download/new-features-and-fixes/".

Is there a new features in OO document?

Posted Jan 25, 2011 17:27 UTC (Tue) by alex (subscriber, #1355) [Link] (4 responses)

It will be interesting to see how fast the features and fixes flow into LibreOffice compared to OpenOffice. Have the LibreOffice team got all the developer momentum now?

Is there a new features in OO document?

Posted Jan 25, 2011 17:38 UTC (Tue) by alex (subscriber, #1355) [Link]

Answering myself it seems a number of the improvements are also in <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/features/3.3/index.html">OO 3.3</a> so I guess they aren't diverging that fast.

Is there a new features in OO document?

Posted Jan 25, 2011 18:01 UTC (Tue) by zeekec (subscriber, #2414) [Link] (2 responses)

From the top of the LibreOffice new features page...

This page gives you a rundown of the new features in this release of LibreOffice (version 3.3). Features tagged with a * are specific to LibreOffice.

doh!

Posted Jan 25, 2011 18:23 UTC (Tue) by alex (subscriber, #1355) [Link] (1 responses)

My eyes were obviously drawn to the "Featured Selection" box of screenshots and I completely missed the header text!

Re: doh!

Posted Jan 26, 2011 7:40 UTC (Wed) by cesarb (subscriber, #6266) [Link]

Me too.

I actually noticed the asterisks, went all over the page looking for the explanation (expecting it to be a footnote of some sort, thus near the end of the page), found nothing, and gave up. I never expected it to be above the first heading.

SVG Import!!!

Posted Jan 25, 2011 18:39 UTC (Tue) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link] (5 responses)

That's a killer feature for me! And it is one of the areas of divergence.

I guess I'll be looking into switching... I hope someone comes up with Debian packages.

SVG Import!!!

Posted Jan 25, 2011 18:53 UTC (Tue) by svena (guest, #20177) [Link] (4 responses)

LibreOffice is already available in experimental.

Packages for ubuntu

Posted Jan 26, 2011 9:15 UTC (Wed) by njd27 (subscriber, #5770) [Link] (3 responses)

Here's the PPA for ubuntu (installing libreoffice will remove openoffice)

https://launchpad.net/~libreoffice/+archive/ppa

Packages for ubuntu

Posted Jan 26, 2011 15:38 UTC (Wed) by andrel (guest, #5166) [Link] (2 responses)

Why not allow both to be installed simultaneously?

Packages for ubuntu

Posted Jan 26, 2011 18:12 UTC (Wed) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

At the moment, the two share too much commonality. Enabling co-existence is HIGH on the priority list.

I'm not sure what's going on, (don't read those bits of the mailing list closely,) but a point release with a few bug fixes including that is probably due soon. Certainly it's in testing mode ...

Cheers,
Wol

Packages for Gentoo

Posted Feb 7, 2011 8:59 UTC (Mon) by steffen780 (guest, #68142) [Link]

I know this is OT for the subthread, but just in case it saves someone the research... as I understand it, this is the situation in Gentoo:
- There are four packages: openoffice-bin, openoffice, libreoffice-bin and libreoffice. *-bin means a binary package, whilst the other two packages are "regular" build-from-source ebuilds (all in the main portage tree, LO/LO-bin obviously still being flagged as testing/unstable).
- All follow the usual Gentoo policy of sticking as close to upstream as reasonably possible, except that the source version of openoffice includes the Go-OO patchset.
- You can install LO-bin at the same time as OOo-bin. You cannot install OOo and LO at the same time. I don't know if its possible to install OOo-bin and LO, or OOo and LO-bin, at the same time.