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The "White Label Office" release candidate

Posted Dec 22, 2011 20:03 UTC (Thu) by nteon (guest, #53899)
In reply to: The "White Label Office" release candidate by mjw
Parent article: The "White Label Office" release candidate

I hadn't used {Libre,Open}Office in probably close to 2 years until yesterday, when I had a big presentation to write. I must say, LibreOffice 3.4's Impress has gotten quite slick and was fantastic to use. I had no problem banging out a great looking 30+ page presentation & exporting it to PDF (which I remember being somewhat of a gamble in the past). The {Libre,Open}Office contributors should be very proud of themselves.

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The "White Label Office" release candidate

Posted Dec 23, 2011 17:25 UTC (Fri) by jospoortvliet (guest, #33164) [Link]

Hmmmm, I'm less optimistic. In my experience LibreOffice is terribly unstable and it's always a surprise what will go wrong next. Sometimes, starting takes minutes. After another update, it's saving files which is broken. A couple of weeks later it's something else. Very, very annoying.

And some new features, while looking cool, are just annoying. The mouse over buttons on slides look nice but you disable slides half the time you try to select them... Those overlays probably are fine on a large screen and with a proper mouse but I work on a small laptop and it's a horror.