LibreOffice was developed to be a productivity suite that is compatible with other major office suites, and available on a variety of platforms. The development toolkit will enable you to easily create extensions as well as external tools based on this platform.
LibreOffice provides you with six feature-rich applications for all your document production and data processing needs: Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Math and Base. LibreOffice is a feature-packed and mature desktop productivity package with some really great advantages.
What's New in This Release:
· This release is bit-for-bit identical to the 4.0.4 Release Candidate 2, so you don't need to download or reinstall if you have that version already.
· The distribution for Windows is an international build, so you can choose the user interface language that you prefer. Help content is available via an online service, or alternatively as a separate install.
· Our Windows binaries are digitally signed by The Document Foundation.
· For Windows users that have OpenOffice.org installed, we advise uninstalling that beforehand, because it registers the same file type associations.
· If you run Linux, the GCJ Java variant has known issues with LibreOffice, we advise to e.g. use OpenJDK instead.
· LibreOffice 4.x drops a few long-deprecated features, including support for legacy binary StarOffice files, export to legacy Word and Excel (version 6.0/95), and legacy ODMA document management.
· Some menu entries have changed or added. If you miss something, that may be due to the use of customised menu setti...