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LibreOffice Going Online and Mobile

Posted by timothy on from the this-rocks-quite-hard dept.

itwbennett writes "News from the LibreOffice Conference in Paris is trickling out. Blogger Brian Proffitt has a roundup of the conference announcements thus far. Notably included are plans for a browser-based version of LibreOffice called LibreOffice Online; and ports of LibreOffice to the Android and iOS platforms."

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  1. It's not me it's you. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    sorry to others but OO did suck, and unusable for instance when setting up the margins your told to use that styles thingy which has never laid out the header correctly and never will. I have visited this open office on and off for years and they never fixed such a simple thing that has kept an untold number of students from working with it. if the school says the lay out the paper a certain way that is what you do otherwise you no grade

  2. Are you serious?? by jampola · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I have recently moved 50 computers from Windows to Linux here in Thailand and the most comments I get related to the move is how much better Libreoffice is than MSO 2k7. This might have something to do with a far more simplistic interface than what 2k7 has and also the brilliant Thai translation for LO. Apart from the odd formatting issues when sharing documents between Libreoffice and MS office (usually font mismatches), it has been a successful move. I would welcome an open source mobile version of Libreoffice to use on my Galaxy Tab and Android phone.

  3. Mobile Viewer by tverbeek · · Score: 3, Interesting

    While I would welcome an iOS version of LibreOffice some day, what I really want in the near future is a viewer for its native file formats.

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  4. Re:iOS Version? I thought that didn't work by bWareiWare.co.uk · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It is LGPL, so they can use their existing code as a library and write a closed source iOS UI.