Release of LibreOffice 7.0

The Document Foundation announced the release of the LibreOffice 7.0 office suite.


You can download it here to register:

This release features the following new features:

Writer

  • Implemented extended numbering of lists. View numbering is now available:

    • [0045]
    • [0046]
  • Bookmarks and fields can be protected from changes

  • Improved control of text rotation in tables

  • Implemented the ability to create a translucent font

  • Bookmarks in the text are highlighted with special non-printing characters

  • Empty input fields were previously invisible, now they are highlighted with a gray non-printable background, like all fields

  • Improved some autocorrect settings

Calc

  • Added new functions RAND.NV() and RANDBETWEEN.NV() to generate pseudo-random numbers that are not recalculated on every table change, unlike the RAND() and RANDBETWEEN() functions
  • Functions that accept regular expressions as arguments now support case sensitive flags
  • The TEXT() function now supports passing an empty string as the second argument for interoperability with other implementations. If the first argument is a number or a text string that can be converted to a number, then the empty string is returned. If the first argument is a text string that cannot be converted to a number, that text string is returned. In previous releases, an empty format string always resulted in Err:502 (Invalid Argument)
  • In the OFFSET() function, the optional 4th parameter (Width) and 5th parameter (Height) must now be greater than 0 if given, otherwise the result will be Err:502 (Invalid argument). In previous releases, a negative argument value was automatically mistaken for the value 1.
  • Optimizations have been made to improve performance when filling cells with rows, when working with autofilter, when opening XLSX files with a large number of images
  • The Alt+= keyboard shortcut is assigned to the SUM function by default, similar to Excel

Impress / Draw

  • Fixed position of superscript and subscript in text blocks
  • Implemented the ability to create a translucent font
  • Optimizations have been made to improve performance for list input cases for which animation is configured; when switching to table editing mode and improved the opening time of some PPT files
  • Implemented support for Glow effect
  • Implemented support for Soft edge effect

Math

  • Added the ability to set an arbitrary color for symbols in RGB format. Use a construction like color rgb 0 100 0 in the formula editor to get the given color
  • Added symbol for Laplace transform ℒ (U+2112)

General/Kernel

  • Added support for ODF 1.3 format
  • Initial support for HiDPI screens has been added to the kf5 backend (for KDE environments)
  • Documents larger than 200 inches can now be exported to PDF
  • The rendering engine that uses OpenGL has been replaced with the Skia library (for Windows version)
  • Redrawn Text Effects
  • Updated built-in Image Gallery
  • Most of the built-in presentation templates for Impress have been redesigned to 16:9 slide format instead of 4:3. Many templates received style support
  • The Navigator in Writer has received many improvements:
    • Categories with no items are now greyed out
    • All categories received new context menu items for quick transition to an element, editing, renaming, deleting
    • Headings can be moved around the structure using the context menu
    • Added a mechanism for tracking the current position of the cursor in the document with the selection of the corresponding heading in the Navigator
    • The navigation bar has been replaced with a dropdown list
    • Added a tooltip with the number of characters in the text under the corresponding heading

Help

  • Help won't display properly in IE11 (and never has, but it's now official)
  • Added several new pages dedicated to Basic
  • Help pages now highlight titles in color depending on which module the help is from

filters

  • Improved EML+ file import filter
  • Saving to DOCX format is now performed in version 2013/2016/2019 instead of the previously used 2007. This will improve compatibility with MS Word
  • Fixed several bugs when importing/exporting to XLSX and PPTX formats

User interface

  • Added new Sukapura icon theme. It will be used by default for the macOS version of the package. But you can select it in the Options dialog on your own and on any other OS
  • Colibre and Sifr icon themes have been updated
  • The Tango icon theme has been removed as unsupported, but remains available as an extension
  • The branding of the program has been updated. This affected the installation dialog in Windows, the About dialog, the boot splash screen
  • The Presentation Console (available with dual displays) has received a couple of new buttons for improved usability
  • Issues related to unnecessary scrolling of thumbnails in some cases have been fixed in the start center

Localization

  • Updated dictionaries for Afrikaans, Catalan, English, Latvian, Slovak, Belarusian and Russian
  • Russian dictionary has been converted from KOI-8R to UTF

Source: linux.org.ru

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