14 DAY TRIAL // The Document Foundation announces that the first Release Candidate version of LibreOffice 4.3 is now available for download and testing.
The developers from The Document Foundation have released a new build in the LibreOffice 4.3 branch, bringing quite a few improvements.
According to the changelog, the limit of characters in paragraphs has been changed, the Navigation buttons have been moved, the Increase/Decrease font functionality has been added to drawing objects, a brand new drawingML-based DOCX import/export filter for shapes and TextFrames has been added, and the import and export of nested comments in the ODF, DOC, DOCX, and RTF filters is now working as it should.
Also, the images are now scaled proportionally by default, the "light blue" color is now used for non-printing characters, the DOCX import now has a progress bar, multiple relations are now supported for relative text frames, the character properties of all comments can now be set at the same time, and when selecting cells, the number of selected rows and columns is now shown in the status bar.
Remember that this is a development version and it should NOT be installed on production machines. It is intended for testing purposes only.
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