Operation Manual

New features in LibreOffice 4
LibreOffice 4.0 offers a large number of new characteristics, which are listed on this page:
https://www.libreoffice.org/download/4-0-new-features-and-fixes. Here are some highlights:
• Integration with several content and document management systems – including Alfresco,
IBM FileNet P8, Microsoft Sharepoint 2010, Nuxeo, OpenText, SAP NetWeaver Cloud
Service and others – through the CMIS standard.
• Better interoperability with DOCX and RTF documents, thanks to several new features and
improvements like the possibility of importing annotations and attaching comments to text
ranges.
• Possibility to import Microsoft Publisher documents, and further improvement of Visio
import filters with the addition of 2013 version (just announced).
• Additional UI incremental improvements, including Unity integration and support of Firefox
Themes (Personas) to give LibreOffice a personalized look.
• Different header and footer on the first page of a Writer document, without the need of a
separate page style.
• Several performance improvements to Calc, plus new features such as export of charts as
images (JPG and PNG) and new spreadsheet functions as defined in ODF OpenFormula.
• First release of Impress Remote Control App for Android, supported only on some Linux
distributions. (The second release, coming soon, will be supported on all platforms:
Windows, MacOS X, and all Linux distros and binaries.)
• Significant performance improvements when loading and saving many types of documents,
with particular improvements for large ODS and XLSX spreadsheets and RTF files.
• Introduction of the widget layout technique for dialogs, which makes it easier to translate,
resize and hide UI elements, reduces code complexity, and lays a foundation for a much
improved user interface.
• Improved code contribution thanks to Gerrit: a web based code review system, facilitating
the task for projects using Git version control system (although this is not specific of
LibreOffice 4.0, it has entered the production stage just before the 4.0 branch).
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