Download LibreOffice 7.0.0

The Document Foundation has released version 7.0 of LibreOffice. This open source office package originated as an offshoot of OpenOffice and comes with the word processor Writer, spreadsheet program Calc, presentation program Impress, drawing program Draw, database program Base and Formula, an application for making scientific notations.

In version 7.0 Among other things, we find support for version 1.3 of the OpenDocument Format, the Skia graphics engine and Vulkan GPU hardware acceleration should provide improved performance and compatibility with docx, xlsx and pptx files has been further improved. The complete release notes are up this page In short, these are the main improvements:

General

• New icon theme, the default on macOS: Sukapura
• New shapes galleries: arrows, diagrams, icons and more…
• Glow and soft edge effects for objects

writer

• Navigator is easier to use, with more context menus
• Semi-transparent text is now supported
• Bookmarks can now be displayed in-line in text
• Padded numbering in lists, for consistency
• Better handling of quotation marks and apostrophes

calc

• New functions for non-volatile random number generation
• Keyboard shortcut added for autosum

Impress & Draw

• Semi-transparent text is supported here too
• Subscripts now return to the default of 8%
• PDFs larger than 500 cm can now be generated