{"id":80,"date":"2012-06-16T10:54:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-16T05:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tuxtrix.com\/2012\/06\/libreoffice-355-and-36-avaialble-to.html"},"modified":"2015-08-22T00:39:45","modified_gmt":"2015-08-21T19:09:45","slug":"libreoffice-355-and-36-avaialble-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tuxtrix.com\/libreoffice-355-and-36-avaialble-to\/","title":{"rendered":"LibreOffice 3.5.5 and 3.6 available to download for testers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\" trbidi=\"on\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-084zPIS5tDs\/T9xhNvYtm3I\/AAAAAAAAO3U\/bIkm814J8XU\/s1600\/LibreOffice+3.6_088.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"217\" src=\"https:\/\/tuxtrix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/LibreOffice-3.6_088.png\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nThe development of LibreOffice, the default office suite for almost all Linux distributions , is moving at a frantic pace. This week, LibreOffice has 3.5.5 RC1 and 3.6 Beta 1 available for testers to download and test.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nLibreOffice 3.5.5 is the bugfix release for the current 3.5 series. There are a huge list of bugs fixed in this release, compared to 3.5.4. The most notable fixes are for Microsoft Office format files. Detailed release note can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.documentfoundation.org\/Releases\/3.5.5\/RC1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nLibreOffice 3.6 is the new series which will succeed 3.5. This series will introduce far more improvements and bug fixes. A list of features to be introduced in 3.6 are:<\/div>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>Writer: support for contextual spacing<\/li>\n<li>Writer: DOCX import now handles GetExpression and SetExpression fields<\/li>\n<li>Writer: RTF\/DOCX import\/export now handle the document zoom setting<\/li>\n<li>Writer: Word count (whole document and selection) in status bar<\/li>\n<li>Support for importing Smart Art (only as pictures, not editable)<\/li>\n<li>Label \/ business card wizard improvements<\/li>\n<li>Calc: New option to specify a custom sheet name prefix in new documents<\/li>\n<li>Calc: Export conditional formatting to xlsx<\/li>\n<li>Calc: Improved CSV file import<\/li>\n<li>Calc: Support field items in cells<\/li>\n<li>Calc: Allow sorting of data from the autofilter menu<\/li>\n<li>Calc: Quickly allow pasting only text, value, or formula from the context menu<\/li>\n<li>Impress: Added widescreen format for impress-slides<\/li>\n<li>Misc: Import filter for Corel Draw documents<\/li>\n<li>Misc: PDF Export with Watermark option<\/li>\n<li>Misc: Rulers are now much cleaner and more light-weight<\/li>\n<li>Misc: GTK themes are now able to render background gradient<\/li>\n<li>GUI:&nbsp;The About dialog has been redesigned for a cleaner look<\/li>\n<li>Performance improvements<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\nDetailed release notes for LibreOffice 3.6 with expected features can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.documentfoundation.org\/ReleaseNotes\/3.6\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-5TOgDgH--a0\/T9xhObXA6TI\/AAAAAAAAO3Y\/d_4J7YgRGg8\/s1600\/Smartart.docx+-+LibreOffice+Writer_087.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"171\" src=\"https:\/\/tuxtrix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Smartart.docx-LibreOffice-Writer_087.png\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Import MS Office SmartArt<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/--VMP98iloq0\/T9xhO3KDY_I\/AAAAAAAAO3g\/nINXSKpwfA0\/s1600\/Untitled+1+-+LibreOffice+Writer_086.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"171\" src=\"https:\/\/tuxtrix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Untitled-1-LibreOffice-Writer_086.png\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Word Count<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<b><i>Important:&nbsp;These releases, as usual, are &nbsp;for testers and developers and are not recommended for production systems.<\/i><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<b><i><br \/><\/i><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<b>Installation in Ubuntu based distributions<\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nIf you want to test LibreOffice 3.6, for Ubuntu based distributions you can install the ppa.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nIf you have the LibreOffice PPA, you will need to remove the ppa&nbsp;before adding the new ppa, otherwise there may be conflicts while installation of packages.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\nsudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice\/libreoffice-prereleases<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nsudo apt-get update &amp;&amp;&nbsp;sudo apt-get dist-upgrade<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The development of LibreOffice, the default office suite for almost all Linux distributions , is moving at a frantic pace. 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