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New version of LibreOffice available
New version of LibreOffice available
#1
Since I know there's a noticeable population of FOSS proponents here... Version 3.5.0 of LibreOffice is available. Amongst other things, this version can import Visio documents. However, there's a fair amount of new code under the hood, so expect things to work differently than they did before.

Story on The Register: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/02/14 ... breoffice/

Download: http://www.libreoffice.org/download
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#2
I'm not sure what exactly they did to it, but whatever they did to it's rendering has made it much easier to read documents on my laptop screen now. It also loads a lot quicker, and loads documents much quicker too. Just remember to clean out the all remains of the older install first. Spend ten minutes figuring out why it kept refusing to load before finding there was still chunks of the original left behind in weird places.
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#3
Interesting. Maybe now that they're actually fixing the bugs as well as adding new features I just might use it.
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#4
That is mainly due to a different governance model. While under sun/oracle people commented on how dysfunctional it was, but under the new governance they have gotten a bunch of extra contributors, merged a lot of supplied patches and they have spent a lot of time trawling for dead code and clearing it out. It's amazing what a difference it's made.
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#5
Is its graphics program better than OpenOffice Draw? OOD seems to be unable to be convinced that there are paper sizes in the world that are not 8.5x11.
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#6
8.5 by 11 cm? Man that's teeny! Wink
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#7
Inches, Foxy. Inches. We Amurricans still measure paper the old-fashioned way.

It's really weird. I wanted to set up an image to print on some 4x6 (inches, again!) photo paper that I had.

(Since I don't have any 8.5x11 photo paper.)

So I went into Open Office Draw, on the Mac, and had to use a custom paper size to pick 4x6 -- all that was listed were letter, legal, tabloid, and A#'s.

So I go to print, and it keeps acting as if I'd set the whole thing up on 8.5x11. Complains about incompatible paper sizes when I try to tell it to feed the photo paper, prints the images (correctly sized, amazingly) on 8.5x11 if I let it set its own defaults, and if I force it to print to 4x6 it acts like it's shrinking an 8.5x11 page to fit 4x6.

I'm seriously honked off at it.
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#8
Uhm... are you using Windows 7? Because it has in-built utilities for printing photos, believe it or not. And if that's not your cup of tea, then maybe you can use the software your printer came with. That usually has some sort of photo printing utility.
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#9
BA, I think you skipped a word in your reading, he's using a mac!

I may actually contemplate using that suite, as I found the last version of OO I tried to be bad....then again this was years ago and it was a live USB stick ed - handy thing on a system that only gives you a desktop & no write permissions.
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#10
BA: #1, I was using a Mac, not Windows anything.

#2, I wanted first to composite the images so I could print both on the same sheet.
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#11
Dartz Wrote:Just remember to clean out the all remains of the older install first. Spend ten minutes figuring out why it kept refusing to load before finding there was still chunks of the original left behind in weird places.
A-ha! That's why I'm having trouble installing it!

Over the weekend, then...
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them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

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#12
ECSNorway Wrote:BA: #1, I was using a Mac, not Windows anything.
Ouch!  Sorry, guess I didn't read hard enough...  And hearing that you're having this problem on a Mac is even more puzzling.  I'm at a total loss (not to mention out of my depth).
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