18 Mar 2011
LibreOffice 3.3.2 Release Candidate 2 available
The Document Foundation is happy to announce the second release candidate of LibreOffice 3.3.2. The upcoming 3.3.2 is the next in a series of frequent bugfix releases on top of our LibreOffice 3.3 product. Please be aware that LibreOffice 3.3.2 RC2 is not yet ready for production use, you should continue to use LibreOffice 3.3.1 for that. The Release Candidate 2 is available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X from our QA builds download page at http://www.libreoffice.org/download/pre-releases/
For more details, refer to the original announcement.
Are there any plans to deuglify the UI?
hehe, new sophisticated term “deuglification”… not so elegant and thus self-referential 🙂
btw, I can`t understand either: why does OOo look better than LibreOffice?
Why do you think that OpenOffice looks better than LibreOffice? Can you explain?
Ah, I feel like a flamebait now…
I installed OOo again just to check, where that impression came from.. And actually there`s not much difference, but the iconset, which is better on the LO side though.
So probably it was true on some pre-release I have tried earlier (I don`t feel insane yet). But sorry, that statement is indeed not relevant now.
I’ve got a suggestion about LibreOffice Writer, but I don’t know where to put it so LO developers will read it – so I’ll try here.
There’s a feature that I dearly miss in LO Writer – nor is it present in OpenOffice.org (or in MS Office, for that matter). The only word processing programme that has this feature on board, is ancient WordPerfect – and it’s horrible to first write texts in LO, then convert them and open them in WP, to be able to do the trick.
It’s all about making booklets in A5, with pages automatically sorted in the right order.
In WP it’s possible, in A4-landscape mode, to assign two columns to every page – and to use these columns as separate pages, including footnotes, automatic page numbering, etc.
When printing, it’s possible to automatically print the opposite pages on every sheet of paper (e.g. 1 – 16; 15 – 2; 3 – 14; etc. – assuming the booklet has 16 pages: always a multiple of 4) so that after copying on a photocopier (back-to-back or double-sided) the booklets only have to be folded and stapled (and cut, when these booklets have to be very nice).
When printing, the programme can automatically cope with one side printers and double side ones.
Many people make booklets like these for clubs, parishes, school – like I do – so I wonder whether it is possible to include this in LibreOffice?
It would be a very welcome feature, I think!
The ordering is something done by many printer-drivers these days.
I do this on a simple HP DeskJet sometimes. I create an A5 Document with 16 consecutive pages and then tell my printer to create a folded 4-page doublesided print. Downside is, that it’s harder to layout things that go across 2 pages.
I case you do layouting jobs like that, you might want to look into scribus.
You can do this by exporting to PDF, then use Adobe Reader, enable “Booklet Printing” under “Page Scaling”.
“I can`t understand either: why does OOo look better than LibreOffice?” – Cloo
Monsieur Cloo, I think that Anonymous does not relate to the horrible GUI of OO.o but the antiquated LO’s GUI in front of the modernized Micro$oft Office.
LibreOffice working is wonderful, but its appearance scares off many users who do not know it and would rather get a pirated copy of Office 2007 or 2010.
I think LibreOffice deserves a complete makeup change.
Here’s a little example taken from another application: PDFXchange Viewer, without changing its old GUI, allows to the users completely change its colour. I do not like Adobe Reader because it is a problematic and slow mammoth bloatware, but I like the colour of its GUI. What to do? Solution: I continue using PDFXchange Viewer changing its default colour of GUI. 🙂
If there are going to be frequent updates, I would suggest that priority is given to a system where patch files are available to upgrade without having to download the whole magilla again.
Yes, definitely needs differential updates like fe. firefox. It would be great to only download a 10 MB update instead of the whole 200+ MB pack every time there is a bugfix release. And automatic updates from within the program wouldn’t hurt either.
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Very much agreed!
(Above comment refers to the desire for incremental rather than comprehensive updates.)
Having to download the entire installation package on every update, I suspect, is for the sake of convenience on the programmers’ side as it seems easier to repackage the software than to program a software update utility (This is a perspective from a person without any programming background). It surely is a timely and tidious process, but can’t complain as a user who is provided a great software free of charge. Thanks for the awesome program which liberated me from ever considering a pirated MS Office.