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LibreOffice 3.6 released
The Document Foundation has announced the release of LibreOffice 3.6, with lots of new features. "Wherever you look you see improvements: a new CorelDRAW importer, integration with Alfresco via the CMIS protocol and limited SharePoint integration, color-scales and data-bars in spreadsheet cells, PDF export watermarking, improved auto-format function for tables in text documents, high quality image scaling, Microsoft SmartArt import for text documents, and improved CSV handling. In addition, there is a lot of contributions from the design team: a cleaner look, especially on Windows PCs, beautiful new presentation master pages, and a new splash screen." More information can be found in the new feature summary and release notes. In addition, Michael Meeks has put together a "behind-the-scenes" view of 3.6 development, including information on dead code removal, build system improvements, more unit tests, and so on.
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LibreOffice 3.6 released Posted Aug 9, 2012 6:39 UTC (Thu) by Wummel (subscriber, #7591) [Link]
+1 for the pdf watermark feature. Nice!
LibreOffice 3.6 released Posted Aug 9, 2012 13:56 UTC (Thu) by cruff (subscriber, #7201) [Link]
A lot of work on flashy stuff but still no support for table style support? I finally gave up on Open/LibreOffice and switched to DocBook for my large scale document production.
LibreOffice 3.6 released Posted Aug 9, 2012 14:07 UTC (Thu) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link] I would never use any sort of "office suite" for large-scale document production. That being said, I really appreciate LibreOffice. The spreadsheet component is quite good, and I use the presentation tool to make slide decks. I even occasionally use the word-processor for small or unimportant documents. Most of all, I really want to thank the OO/LO developers for giving me a free tool with which to read MS Office attachments. In business, you can't realistically reject all MS attachments, and having free software that can open them is a lifesaver.
LibreOffice 3.6 released Posted Aug 9, 2012 15:22 UTC (Thu) by debacle (subscriber, #7114) [Link]
Yes, absolutely. We use DocBook + dblatex for large-scale documents in our company and both MS office and LO (the latter on both Debian and Windows) for small documents. Without LO (or OOo) using Linux as a company Desktop would not be an option.
docbook Posted Aug 13, 2012 6:30 UTC (Mon) by aristedes (guest, #35729) [Link]
What are you using for WYSIWYG docbook authoring? The best I've found is Oxygen, but even that is not as nice as it could be for non-technical users.
We have a pretty limited set of docbook elements we use, but even still having something to make authoring easier would be really useful.
docbook Posted Aug 13, 2012 14:35 UTC (Mon) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link] I can't speak for the OP, but I don't use WYSIWYG tools for authoring documents. I'm old-school, so I use LaTeX directly and generate HTML with tex4ht. The technology is not as new and shiny as docbook, but the results are superb.
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