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Review: Hands on LibreOffice 3.3 (Linux.com)

[Posted February 7, 2011 by ris]

Linux.com has a review of LibreOffice. "The remainder of LibreOffice Writer's new features were also useful. I liked the page numbering tool, and I really appreciated the new Print dialog box (which is present in all of the LibreOffice tools). I know, it's a little odd to get excited about a dialog box, but I always have found the OpenOffice.org Print dialog box rather clunky, so it's LibreOffice counterpart is a breath of fresh air."

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Posted Feb 8, 2011 5:05 UTC (Tue) by gdt (subscriber, #6284) [Link]

While there is clear evidence that some developer's itches are getting scratched--(SVG import? Really? I've got nothing against vector graphics, but are Draw or the other LibreOffice apps really going to be the editors of choice?)

This has been a oft-requested feature for a long time and used to be implemented with a plugin. It allows people to use other packages to create vector graphics which can then be used in presentations [1]. It gives an easy path from Dia, Inkscape and other more specialised graphics software to Impress.

[1] Vector graphics are much better than bitmap graphics as they allow the on-screen and printed slides to both be at the maximum resolution of their media. That's very useful for annotated diagrams.

Review: Hands on LibreOffice 3.3 (Linux.com)

Posted Feb 8, 2011 10:31 UTC (Tue) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216) [Link]

I think someone needs to whisper in the reviewer's ear: "Two words: clip art."

Review: Hands on LibreOffice 3.3 (Linux.com)

Posted Feb 8, 2011 12:10 UTC (Tue) by whitemice (guest, #3748) [Link]

And the awesome just gets more awesomer!

OpenOffice/LibreOffice is an extremely impressive product that doesn't get nearly an equivalent amount of press. I thought it was "good" until I started doing real document management [multi-part documents, 200+ pages, with cross-reference] when I realized it was *awesome*,