I'm hoping
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| tuxchick Feb 02, 2011 11:22 AM EDT |
...that LibreOffice makes some serious improvements, and it looks like they are. OOo was increasingly becoming a collection of bugs and UI annoyances, and the gratuitous dependence on Java is weird and irksome. I have heard rumors that LibreOffice aims to reduce the Java dependence, and this page lists a whole lot of substantial fixes and improvements. http://www.libreoffice.org/download/new-features-and-fixes/ |
| dinotrac Feb 02, 2011 11:54 AM EDT |
I saw that it will now load and save ODF in uncompressed form.
Whoo and Hoo! I've used headless OO as a document processing engine in the past -- instead of a Microsoft-office oriented alternative that went for $30,000 a license -- and the ability to do stylesheet transforms is an immensely powerful and under-appreciated feature of ODF. |
| hkwint Feb 02, 2011 3:40 PM EDT |
dino: As far as I know, there are plans to "isolate" the part of OOo which does conversions. That means, you don't need all 300MB no more to do headless stuff. So the future looks even brighter! |
| dinotrac Feb 02, 2011 5:29 PM EDT |
Hans -- That would be spectacular. |
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