LibreOffice 4.2 released

Posted Feb 6, 2014 11:48 UTC (Thu) by morhippo (guest, #334)
Parent article: LibreOffice 4.2 released

Seems to have become really unstable here since 4.1 - I use mostly writer. In my experience, LO crashes at least every 30 minutes when working with real documents. 4.2 now introduced corrupt export to DOC and DOCX - Word would not open either document (imported as DOCX or rtf from a word file, exported by LO). Maybe someone is sabotaging LO from the inside? IS there no quality control prior to release?

LibreOffice 4.2 released

Posted Feb 6, 2014 14:02 UTC (Thu) by hummassa (subscriber, #307) [Link] (3 responses)

Funny you should mention that. The Linux version is normal (no crashes whatsoever, no perceptible difference in timing or whatever) but the MacOSX version "feels" far heavier than 4.1, sluggish even.

LibreOffice 4.2 released

Posted Feb 6, 2014 16:18 UTC (Thu) by morhippo (guest, #334) [Link] (1 responses)

My experience is based on the Windows 7 version... Maybe the Linux version is better?

LibreOffice 4.2 released

Posted Feb 6, 2014 17:34 UTC (Thu) by morhippo (guest, #334) [Link]

Checked the linux version - better results, but the rtf export is severely damaged if opened in wordviewer under wine.... Probably need to reinstall libreoffice under windows.

LibreOffice 4.2 released

Posted Feb 6, 2014 19:07 UTC (Thu) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link]

I haven't had problems with writer under Linux, but calc is very crashy for me. The release notes say that the data structure for representing spreadsheets was completely overhauled; looks like it introduced some regressions. :(

Overall, I'm very happy with LibreOffice and thankful for it.