Download LibreOffice 4.1 Beta 1

The Document Foundation has released the first beta release of version 4.1 of LibreOffice. This open source office package originated as a fork 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 creating scientific notations. Below is an overview of the changes and improvements that we can expect in version 4.1.

writer

• Images embedded in writer can now be rotated easily in 90 degree increments
• Writer textframes now support having a gradient as background fdo#46029
• Embedding fonts in a Writer document fdo#42195
• The comments bar now can be easily toggled with the a button in the ruler. fdo#38246
• On Windows, modern IMEs show their suggestion windows at more easy-to-read position. fdo#64298
• Import and export of graphical bullets of numberings in the DOC, DOCX and RTF filters i#120928
• Improved Footnote and footer comment handling. fdo#34800
• Comments to text ranges can now span over multiple paragraphs. fdo#53442

calc

• Embedding fonts in a Calc spreadsheet fdo#61073
• Add a Stepped Lines line type to Line and XY (Scatter) graphs fdo#61135
• New feature in Calc spreadsheet: Count the number of selected cells: fdo#61541
• Import large HTML documents with more than 64k table cells. fdo#35756

Formula engine

• New spreadsheet function NUMBERVALUE as defined in ODF OpenFormula. fdo#57180
• New spreadsheet function SKEWP as defined in ODF OpenFormula. fdo#60322
• Import/export functions new in Excel 2013 for ODF OpenFormula compatibility. fdo#60032
  The following functions are handled, name specialties are given as (in parentheses the Calc en-US UI name) [in brackets the ODFF name]

  ACOT, ACOTH, ARABIC, BASE, BINOM.DIST.RANGE (B) [BINOM.DIST.RANGE]BITAND, BITLSHIFT, BITOR, BITRSHIFT, BITXOR, COMBINA, COT, COTH, CSC, CSCH, DAYS, DECIMAL, FORMULATEXT (FORMULA) [FORMULA]GAMMA, GAUSS, IFNA, IMCOSH, IMCOT, IMCSC, IMCSCH, IMSEC, IMSECH, IMSINH, IMTAN, ISFORMULA, MUNIT, NUMBERVALUE, PDURATION (DURATION) [PDURATION]PERMUTATIONA, PHI, RRI, SEC, SECH, SHEET, SHEETS, SKEW.P (SKEWP) [SKEWP]UNICHAR, UNICODE, XOR

Impress

• Embedding fonts in an Impress presentation file fdo#61072
• See also Filters
• Now it’s easier to create slideshows from a series of pictures with the “Photo Album” feature. fdo#35546Find at: Insert > Picture > Photo Album

draw

• See also Filters

Base

• Limit the results of a query by using the ‘Limit’ combobox on the Query Design Toolbar.
• New Query Properties Dialog in Query Design View for adding limit and distinct values ​​properties.Find at: Queries > Design View > Edit > Query Properties
• Query Properties Dialog can open from Query Design ToolbarFind at: Queries > Design View > Design Toolbar

chart

• Export of charts into odc (ODF chart files)
• Inserting odc files into Calc sheets through Insert > Object > Chart from File
• Charts can now be also exported to vector graphics (eg SVG,PDF) fdo#60137

core

• Reduce java code: Port Calendar Wizard to python. Remove 11 files, 5345 lines of java code
• Port Web Wizard to Python. 140 files changed, 5076 (+), 11416 (-). Removed 55 files, 10426 lines of java code

Filters

• SVG export now also includes hyperlinks fdo#47576
• Media file types WMA, WMV and AAC now accessible from Insert > Movie and sound fdo#36635

GUI

• Make Find hotkey (Ctrl+F) a toggle command fdo#59101
• Add a “close search” button to the search bar fdo#58526
• Add'[x] Match Case’ option to the Ctrl-f search bar
• Add File > Recent Documents > Clear List feature
• Delete multiple styles at once fdo#46718
• Access Recent Documents directly from the toolbar using a dropdown next to the “Open” button, and improve the Recent Documents menu

Localization

• Much improved windows input method alignment using IMR_QUERYCHARPOSITION fdo#64298
• Support font localized forms (locl) feature in Writer fdo#62154

Right to Left Support

• Arabic scripts are supported in Mac OSX now
• Improved Kashida in justified text fdo#35320

Infrastructure

• Completed the port to gnumake, and removed all dmake makefiles and internal binary, this gives significant build parallelism and build-time improvements see [blog] – many people helped in this work
• Instead of passing a vast number of pre-processor defines -DFOO on every compiler command-line, along with a similarly large amount of makefile rules to set these for various files, we now use autoconf to produce many separate config_host/config_feature.h include files to include which avoid lots of this annoyance
• Converted large numbers of component instantiations to use the new, much cleaner and more readable service constructors

extensions

• Gallery improvements
  • Galleries can now be named with sensible names such as “mygallery.thm” rather than sg avoiding conflicts in the integer number-space and making it easier to package them.
  • Galleries are created at compile time from a flat list of files – making it easy to extend them.
  • Add ability to translate gallery files using a .desktop file syntax ‘.str’ file placed next to the gallery thus

  name[en_US]=My Gallery name[de]=Meine Gallery name[fr]=…

Feature removal / deprecation

• Support for Mac OS X for PowerPC has been dropped.
• Similarly, support for Mac OS X’s SDK v10.4 and 10.5 has been dropped as well.

Unpublishing UNO APIs

• com.sun.star.document.MediaDescriptor core commit 765aca651a3d53b14dc3bfac0d05b36d4f01dbb4

Removing deprecated configuration options

• Common/Gallery/ID_Dialog core commit 8e7a1ad17cdcd677e40865daa9bbdbe69927360d
• Common/Image/Color/PosterColor
• Common/Image/Color/RotationAngle
• Common/Image/Color/LeftRight
• Common/Image/Color/BlackWhiteThreshold
• Common/Image/Effect/MosaicX_Tile
• Common/Image/Effect/MosaicY_Tile
• Common/Image/Effect/SolarizationThreshold
• Common/Image/Effect/TileX_Tile
• Common/Image/Effect/TileY_Tile
• Common/Internal/CurrentTempURL core commit 31fedbe9f782976b6aa4615b6fd171ed52137c94
• Common/Internal/SendCrashMail
• Common/Internal/Slot
• Common/Internal/UseMailUI
• Common/Office Objects core commit 8e7a1ad17cdcd677e40865daa9bbdbe69927360d
• Common/ExternalApps/ExternalMailer/UseDefaultMailer
• Common/ExternalApps/ExternalMailer/CommandProfile
• Common/ExternalApps/ExternalMailer/Profiles
• Common/MailCommandLineProfile
• Common/Path/Current/OfficeInstall
• Common/Path/Current/OfficeInstallURL
• Common/Working Set core commit 55664c9bd2469d3e493e6f1b67fbb2f96500d492
• Inet/Settings/ooInetDNSServer core commit ad8ca80c42d2e2b8996d3cf528183710e8ea3395
• Inet/Settings/ooInetSOCKSProxyName
• Inet/Settings/ooInetSOCKSProxyPort
• Java/Install/AdditionalClasspath core commit 7c48a2a83f4a92200c7f2b0f259bf1684d253436
• Java/Install/AdditionalSearchPath
• Java/Install/Exclude Version
• Java/Install/InstallationPackage
• Java/Install/PackageInstallationDirectory
• Java/Install/RequiredVersion
• Java/Install/Vendor
• Java/Install/Verified Version
• Java/Install/Version
• Java/VirtualMachine/DebugPort
• Java/VirtualMachine/DisableAsyncGC
• Java/VirtualMachine/EnableClassGC
• Java/VirtualMachine/EnableVerboseGC
• Java/VirtualMachine/EnvironmentType
• Java/VirtualMachine/JavaLibPath
• Java/VirtualMachine/JavaStackSize
• Java/VirtualMachine/MaxHeapSize
• Java/VirtualMachine/MinHeapSize
• Java/VirtualMachine/NativeStackSize
• Java/VirtualMachine/RunTimeLib
• Java/VirtualMachine/SystemClassPath
• Java/VirtualMachine/VMType
• Java/VirtualMachine/Verbose
• Java/VirtualMachine/VerifyMode
• Math/Misc/NoSymbolsWarning core commit 1c86d43ca8bf6f1eac93791068ec016d5637efcd