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The Document Foundation has isued the first release candidate (RC1) of the upcomingLibreOffice7.2, which includes a lot of work to improve theopen sourceoffice suite’s compatibility withMicrosoft Office.
Parsing through therelease notes,The Registernoticed that the major changes in this release are the dozens of fixes and improvements to theopen source office suite’s ability to import and export documents inMicrosoftOffice’s proprietary formats.
In addition to improving the filters for handling proprietary document formats such as DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, the release of the popularMicrosoft Office alternativealso adds support for importing files in the Windows-only image formats, namely WMF and EMF.
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Several of the features in the extensive release notes,The Registernotes that most new ones are small tweaks and bug fixes.
Several however have been the result of collaboration between various commercial entities that make up the LibreOffice ecosystem.
For instance, the feature to create multi-column layout in text boxes, which debuts in this release was developed jointly by SUSE and Collabora, both of whom also work together to offer commercial support services around the office suite.
Another big new feature in the release is meant for the LibreOffice development community and comes in the form of a developer tool panel for inspecting Universal Network Objects (UNO).
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UNO is LibreOffice’s component model, and reportedly performs a similar function as that of the Components Object Model (COM) in Microsoft Office.
The feature is the result of the work by Collabora developers in response to a tender issued by LibreOffice last year.
ViaThe Register
With almost two decades of writing and reporting on Linux, Mayank Sharma would like everyone to think he’sTechRadar Pro’sexpert on the topic. Of course, he’s just as interested in other computing topics, particularly cybersecurity, cloud, containers, and coding.
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