libreoffice

By installing Ubuntu, the user is immediately faced with a high-quality full-fledged overall experience; browsing the Web, downloading torrents, listening music, playing 1080p movies, encapsulating last.fm into a web app, etc, are functionalities available by default.

Weeks ago, the LibreOffice developers announced a new 4.x LibreOffice series, event followed by the landing of LibreOffice 4.0 ALPHA and BETA 1.

EPUB (electronic publication) is a widely used and appreciated e-book standard, file type maneuverable by numerous and numerous applications, operating systems and devices.

Via Ubuntu Software Center (and/or PPAs) users can install Calibre (a powerful e-book library management tool with in-depth file-conversion capabilities, including EPUB) and Sigil (a versatile EPUB editor with a multitude of functionalities).

Microsoft Visio is a 2D-object drawing application, part of the Microsoft Office suite.

Months ago, the LibreOffice developers started the work on implementing a Micrososft Viso import filter, filter that, as its name says, allows users to import Visio-specific files directly into LibreOffice Draw (thus enlarging its supported file formats).

Nevertheless, while libvisio's initial implementation in LibreOffice 3.5 was successful, "the Visio story was far from finished".

The Document Foundation has just released a new version of LibreOffice, 3.6.4, office suite version presenting itself as a bug fixes release.

Creating an ODT document, exporting a DOC as PDF, editing a slideshow, etc, are actions fully and easily performed via LibreOffice, a full-fledged versatile office suite, available in Ubuntu by default.

LibreOffice can be characterized as a software project where development contributions and additions are constantly landed, approach materialized in stable, filled-with-features LibreOffice releases.

Editing thousand-pages long documents, creating presentations for a certain public event, managing spreadsheets, etc, are actions that can be easily satisfied in Ubuntu via LibreOffice, a powerful versatile office suite.

Along with an impressive number of features, it seems that LibreOffice is a project constantly enriched, refined, improved and strengthened, constantly seeing new releases (characterized by solid functionalities, care for stability, etc).

LibreOffice is a powerful full-fledged office suite shipped in Ubuntu by default.

Along with a massive amount of features, in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, LibreOffice exposes its menus as an "old" application, in the sense of not taking advantage of the global menu/appmenu, yet, by simply installing lo-menubar (available via Ubuntu Software Center), the appmenu is enabled (as a result, LibreOffice gains a desktop-integrated look & feel).

Ubuntu ships by default LibreOffice, a powerful full-fledged office suite that incorporates a wide range of functionalities, features, tools, etc, bundle of functionalities constantly developed by a massive group of developers.

Since its implementation in Ubuntu, users, across the web, have generated complains related to LibreOffice's look, mainly in expression similar to "LibreOffice is great, powerful, fast, yet its look must be aligned with its features".

Across various development cycles, Ubuntu gathered couple of critics, expressed by a "vocal" community, community satisfied by Ubuntu and the provided software, excepting few minor but relevant issues.

Lo-menubar has been designed as a "bridge" between LibreOffice and the Unity panel, in the sense of managing LibreOffice menus by exposing them on the top bar, and, while providing menus, aligning LibreOffice to the appmenu approach used in Ubuntu by default.