LibreOffice - the new name of the office suite OpenOffice.org. The developers of the software package OpenOffice announced the creation of an independent organization The Document Foundation, under which they will continue to develop their own applications, but under the name LibreOffice. Programs OpenOffice.org - a free collection of programs, similar in functionality to the package Microsoft Office: Writer - a word processor; Calc - a spreadsheet; Impress - the creation and viewing of multimedia presentations; Draw - a vector graphics editor; Math - editor of mathematical formulas. One of the very positive qualities - the ability of all these applications with the relevant documents formats MS Office. The project was developed by Sun Microsystems, and this year, after the sale of Sun, was owned by Oracle. Brand OpenOffice.org remains the property of Oracle, so the name had to change. On the support already announced LibreOffice Google, Free Software Foundation, Novell and Red Hat, Canonical representatives and promised to include this package in the OS Ubuntu - the most popular among home users distribution of Linux. Allows you to create and edit all common document formats, including formats for documents MS Office. Native document format OpenOffice.org OpenDocument Format (ODF), approved by the International Organization for Standardization as ISO Standard ISO / IEC 26300:2006. OpenOffice.org office suite allows you to upload any document in PDF (ISO 32000).
LibreOffice.org consists of six components of the programs:
Ø Editor and editor of web-pages Writer
Ø Calc spreadsheet
Ø A tool for generating and presentations Impress
Ø Draw vector graphics editor
Ø Database Management System Base
Ø editor for creating and editing formulas Math
Ø All components are integrated into a common core, and thus, have a good compatibility with each other. The functionality of all components provides all the necessary tools and allows you to solve the basic problem of the user. To store the results of using a file format ODF (ISO / IEC 26300:2006), based on XML and has received the status of international standard.
Key features:
Ø LibreOffice.org has some interesting features, partially or completely absent in the other office suites:
Ø Cross-platform. Currently LibreOffice.org can be used on all popular platforms: Linux (32 - and 64-bit systems), Windows (2000 and later), MacOS, FreeBSD, and Solaris.
Ø Tools to help you create, edit, and document management:
Ø Gallery to insert images;
Ø navigator to move through the document and search;
Ø stylist for creating, editing and management styles of document formatting;
Ø data sources for importing data from databases or spreadsheets.
Ø Supported file formats: MS Office
Ø You can easily open and save documents in the formats of MS Office 97-2003. It also supports importing files in Office OpenXML (MS Office 2007).
Ø Export to PDF
Ø Export to the format supported by all of the components (except Base). If there is a special extension can also import PDF to LibreOffice.org Draw.
Ø Support for extensions
Ø LibreOffice.org provides an opportunity to develop independent third-party extensions, providing additional functionality to the end user. Extensions can be easily installed and removed.
Ø LibreOffice is free and is open source, so you can freely download, use and learn LibreOffice. LibreOffice is free for both private as well as for educational or commercial use. Can be used without any licensing fees to your family, friends, colleagues, students, staff, and so on.
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