- LibreOffice 4.4, the most beautiful LibreOffice ever - The user interface has been improved in a significant way - Interoperability with OOXML file formats has been extended
Improved source code quality based on Coverity Scan analysis Berlin, January 29, 2015 - The Document Foundation is pleased to announce LibreOffice 4.4, the ninth major release of the free office suite, with a significant number of design and user experience improvements. "LibreOffice 4.4 has got a lot of UX and design love, and in my opinion is the most beautiful ever," says Jan "Kendy" Holesovsky, a member of the Membership Committee and the leader of the design team. "We have completed the dialog conversion, redesigned menu bars, context menus, toolbars, status bars and rulers to make them much more useful. The Sifr monochrome icon theme is extended and now the default on OS X. We also developed a new Color Selector, improved the Sidebar to integrate more smoothly with menus, and reworked many user interface details to follow today's UX trends." LibreOffice 4.4 offers several significant improvements in other areas, too: - Support of OpenGL transitions in Windows, and improved implementation based on the new OpenGL framework; - Digital signing of PDF files during the export process; - Installation of free fonts Carlito and Caladea to replace proprietary Microsoft C-Fonts Calibri and Cambria, to get rid of font related issues while opening OOXML files; - Addition of several new default templates, designed by volunteers; - Visual editing of Impress master pages, to remove unwanted elements, adding or hiding a level to the outline numbering, and toggling bullets on or off; - Better Track Changes - with new buttons in the Track Changes toolbar - and AutoCorrect features in Writer; - Improved import filters for Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Publisher and AbiWord files, and Microsoft Works spreadsheets; - New import filters for Adobe Pagemaker, MacDraw, MacDraw II and RagTime for Mac; - Greatly expanded support for media capabilities on each platform. A rather comprehensive description of all LibreOffice 4.4 new features, including developers' names, is available on the release notes page at the following address: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/4.4. In addition, a summary of the most significant development related details has been published by Michael Meeks: https://people.gnome.org/~michael/. People interested in technical details can find change logs here: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/4.4.0/Beta1 (fixed in Beta 1), https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/4.4.0/Beta2 (fixed in Beta 2), https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/4.4.0/RC1 (fixed in RC1), https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/4.4.0/RC2 (fixed in RC2) and https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/4.4.0/RC3 (fixed in RC3). Download LibreOffice LibreOffice 4.4 is immediately available for download from the following link: http://www.libreoffice.org/download/. LibreOffice users, free software advocates and community members can support The Document Foundation with a donation at http://donate.libreoffice.org. About The Document Foundation The Document Foundation is an independent, self-governing and meritocratic organization, based on Free Software ethos and incorporated in Germany as a not for profit entity. TDF is focused on the development of LibreOffice - the best free office suite ever - chosen by the global community as the legitimate heir of OOo, and as such adopted by a growing number of public administrations, enterprises and SMBs for desktop productivity. TDF is accessible to individuals and organizations who agree with its core values and contribute to its activities. At the end of December 2014, the foundation has 205 members and over 3,000 volunteer contributors worldwide. Short link to TDF blog: http://wp.me/p1byPE-x4. Infographics available at: https://documentfoundation.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/tdf-libreoffice44info.pdf (PDF) or https://documentfoundation.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/tdf-libreoffice44info.jpg (JPG). -- Italo Vignoli - The Document Foundation mob IT +39.348.5653829 - mob EU +39.392.7481795 sip it...@libreoffice.org - skype italovignoli hangout / jabber italo.vign...@gmail.com email it...@documentfoundation.org GPG Key ID - 0xAAB8D5C0 DB75 1534 3FD0 EA5F 56B5 FDA6 DE82 934C AAB8 D5C0 -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: announce+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/announce/