Open Source Libra Office released its latest version 4.1 with lots of improvement and 3000 bug fixes!! Now, it creates a bridge for business users to use the open source office.
New features and improvements:
Writer improvements
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Rotate images in 90 degree increments
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Text frames now support gradients
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Import/export of graphical bullets in DOC, DOCX, and RTF
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Comments to text ranges can span over multiple paragraphs
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Font embedding
Calc improvements
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Stepped Lines line type
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Font embedding
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Ability to count number of selected cells
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Import large number of HTML documents with over 64K table cells
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New functions (such as NUMBERVALUE and SKEWP)
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Large number of new Excel formulas supported (ACOT, ACOTH, ARABIC, BASE, BINOM.DIST.RANGE (B)
, BITAND, BITLSHIFT, BITOR, BITRSHIFT, BITXOR, COMBINA, COT, COTH, CSC, CSCH, DAYS, DECIMAL, FORMULATEXT (FORMULA) , GAMMA, GAUSS, IFNA, IMCOSH, IMCOT, IMCSC, IMCSCH, IMSEC, IMSECH, IMSINH, IMTAN, ISFORMULA, MUNIT, NUMBERVALUE, P -
SEC, SECH, SHEET, SHEETS, SKEW.P (SKEWP)
, UNICHAR, UNICODE, XOR) -
DURATION (DURATION)
, PERMUTATIONA, PHI, RRI,
Impress improvements
- Disable Presenter Console
- Importing of more file types
- Font embedding
Base/math/chart/core improvements
- Limit the results of a query using the Limit combobox
- New Query Properties Dialog in Query Design View
- Export charts as vector graphics
- New Elements docking windows in Math
- Better text layout on Linux and Mac OS X
- SVG export now includes hyperlinks
- Media types: Windows Media Audio (WMA), Windows Media Video (WMV), Advanced Audio Coding (AAC), Flash Video (FLV), Multiplexed OGG Video (OGX), RMI MIDI Audio and SND can now be imported