Company Collabora platform release (Collabora Online Development Edition), offering a specialized distribution for rapid deployment and organization of joint remote work with the office suite via the Web to achieve functionality similar to Google Docs and Office 365. Distribution kit as a pre-configured container for the Docker system and also as packages for popular Linux distributions. The developments used in the product are placed in public repositories , , (Web Services Daemon) and (web client). The developments proposed in the CODE 6.4 version will be included in the regular LibreOffice 7.1.
CODE includes all the components required to run the LibreOffice Online Server and provides a quick start and overview of the current state of development of the LibreOffice Web edition. Working with documents, spreadsheets and presentations is supported through a web browser, including the possibility of collaboration of several users who can simultaneously make changes, leave comments and answer questions. The contributions, current edits, and cursor positions of each user are highlighted in different colors. Systems can be used to organize cloud storage of documents. , , ΠΈ .
Browser-Displayed Editing Interface using the standard LibreOffice engine and allows you to achieve a completely identical display of the document structure with the version for desktop systems. The interface is rendered using the HTML5 backend of the GTK library, which is designed to render the output of GTK applications in a web browser window. LibreOfficeKit is used for calculations, mosaic rendering and layered document layout. A special Web Services Daemon is used to organize server interaction with the browser, transfer images with interface parts, organize caching of image pieces and work with the document repository.
Major changes:
- The release numbering is synchronized with Collabora Office products, so after version 4.2, CODE 6.4 was immediately formed. The change reflects the initiative to bring all Collabora products, including applications for mobile platforms, to a common numbering.
- Default new toolbar , designed in the style of Ribbon and repeating the panel of the same name from the desktop edition of LibreOffice. The panel offers easier-to-read buttons and an intuitive layout of tools into tabs.
- Added a collapse mode for the NotebookBar, which allows you to switch to a compact one-line layout, in which only the tabs themselves are visible (clicking on the active tab hides the tools, and clicking again returns).
- In the upper left corner, regardless of the NotebookBar being minimized, a drop-down menu (hamburger) is now shown with additional settings and tools for managing collaboration and language options.
- Based on the NotebookBar and tabs, the design of Writer, Impress and Calc has been modernized.
- For users who are accustomed to the classic panel, it is possible to return the old interface by setting the user_interface parameter in the loolwsd.xml file to "classic".
- Rewritten code for drawing spreadsheets. In addition to increasing performance, the new implementation allowed adding innovations such as freezing rows and columns - after pressing the freeze button in the panel or through the menu "View > Freeze Rows", when scrolling, the selected row or column remains visible on the left or top.
- Added tools for collaborating with PDF files. Users can now parse a PDF document together, attach annotations, and add comments.
- Improved display of presentations, diagrams, pictures and forms when working with OOXML formats used in the Microsoft Office package. Including added support for displaying translucent text, improved support for SmartArt, improved display of color gradients in presentations.
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