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Originally posted by jacob View PostI think there are still a few big missing features. For one, the documentation of LO's internal APIs and, more generally, macro development and customisation, is next to nonexistent. It's also lacking proper PDF import (as a text document) and built-in OCR.
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Originally posted by andyprough View Post
Are there any other word processors with real built-in OCR? I can't think of any. Second, what would be the point? Handle the OCR in a pdf document package, and then import the result. Third, pdf import, except for fairly simple documents with almost no formatting, usually ends up with a pretty big mess even using the best word processors. I did a simple document on a big, proprietary word processor 2 weeks ago that ended up a huge mess. I won't say the name of the word processor, but it rhymes with "MS Turd". And it was the latest, greatest version.
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Originally posted by kpedersen View Post
I like that it has been extremely boring for a while now. This is good.
For my purposes it is actually feature complete. All we need to do now is maintain it well and wait for Microsoft to stop providing an offline version of MS Office. Finally then I think LibreOffice stands a really good chance of becoming the standard; even once Microsoft brings back an offline version of MS Office because the dated "cloud" architecture doesn't work.
(Then we wont need to worry about time-sucking tasks like keeping docx support in sync.)
What I do not want to see is a non-optional dependence on OpenGL 3.3, OpenCL or some other mad shite that FOSS software seems to be going for these days.
CPU, RAM and GPU. What version of OpenGL does your GPU support?
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Originally posted by uid313 View PostWhat do you like and dislike with LibreOffice? What do you think could be better and would like to see?
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Originally posted by kpedersen View Post
Once we can reliably run OpenGL 3.x+ in a VM, entirely software based or remotely then perhaps, but until then we are simply too far behind Microsoft's RemoteFx / RDP for GPU reliance to be acceptable in the enterprise. We would be shooting ourselves in the foot.
It would even cause issues for Linux in the hobbiest market; I don't think things like the Raspberry Pi can run OpenGL 3.3 (OpenGLES 3.2 I think is the very latest for the Pi 4).
Basically it will reduce the number of FOSS users even lower than there already is. Especially for poorer households (where FOSS was originally a large benefit to). Whilst we sit on our fat gamer PCs, we should show some restraint and not "want it all!". Especially for such a pointless thing like slightly smoother scrolling in a spreadsheet
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Originally posted by Mathias View PostWhat I really hate about LibreOffice, the Appimage Download Page doesn't show what version I am downloading. Only "Fresh" and "Still". So I download the fresh version, but that's not yet updated... Thanks.
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Originally posted by uid313 View PostWhat do you like and dislike with LibreOffice? What do you think could be better and would like to see?
As for me, I would like to see it come with beautiful templates so that you can focus on content and effortlessly make beautiful presentations and documents. Maybe it needs overall a bit more polish.
What I miss — and a lot of peoples in scientific community do — is support for LaTeX imports. Right now if you want to convert a LaTeX document to an office format, you have to use pandoc. But pandoc is far from being feature-complete, also I doubt its support for various office formats is anywhere near the LO's one, simply because of man-hours people put into these two apps.
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Originally posted by kneekoo View Post
Try this page: http://libreoffice.soluzioniopen.com/index.php/stable-2/
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Originally posted by uid313 View PostWhat do you like and dislike with LibreOffice? What do you think could be better and would like to see?
As for me, I would like to see it come with beautiful templates so that you can focus on content and effortlessly make beautiful presentations and documents. Maybe it needs overall a bit more polish.
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