Includes PDF, OOXML & configuration management improvements

Aug 25, 2015 01:25 GMT  ·  By

Collabora, through Sam Tuke, had the pleasure of announcing the immediate availability for download of the LibreOffice-from-Collabora 4.4 office suite, a modified, commercial version of the open-source LibreOffice software.

According to the release notes, the new LibreOffice-from-Collabora 4.4 release is here to combine the latest improvements implemented in the upstream LibreOffice office suite by The Document Foundation developers with document integrity, deployment management, and compatibility features from Collabora.

Prominent features include support for Windows Server ADMX Group Policy templates, which allows for per-user configurations to large-scale deployments and separate local settings for multiple users, better Microsoft Office 2007 compatibility by extending the support for OOXML documents, as well as support for the Time Stamp Protocol (TSP) in order to allow independent verification of the integrity of PDF documents.

"Today’s release of LibreOffice-from-Collabora 4.4 combines Collabora’s latest compatibility, deployment management, and document integrity features with a host of improvements from the LibreOffice community," says Sam Tuke. "Redesigned toolbars, menus, rulers, and dialogues make these powerful additions more attractive and efficient to use."

LibreOffice-from-Collabora 4.4 brings a smoother user experience

Furthermore, the new LibreOffice-from-Collabora 4.4 office suite promises to offer a smoother, intuitive, and elegant experience to all users by implementing various enhancements to the user interface of the application, such as toolbar line spacing menu, a new welcome center, faster creation of new documents, numbering and bullet previews, contextual color selector, clearer page numbers, word count, tooltips, and more.

The sidebar management and icons have been improved as well, along with much faster exporting of OOXML documents, smart document saving, which leads to faster storing of documents that include images, twice as fast management of images in office documents thanks to a new JPEG image library, and more efficient handling of huge contact lists in the mail-merge functionality of the Write component.  

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