LibreOffice 4.1.1 Free Office Productivity Suite Released

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The Document Foundation has released an update of your editor’s favorite Open Source productivity suite – LibreOffice 4.1.1

LibreOffice is a free multi-module office suite that offers word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, a drawing application that does 3D, a database front-end, and file compatibility with Microsoft Office plus other formats.

LibreOffice 4.1 is the most recent stable version of the software, and marks a major milestone for the LibreOffice project, with a host of new features for users as well as several important changes and improvements under the hood. Below are some notable changes in this version:

• Rotate images in Writer in 90 degree increments

• Send along your fonts with your documents. Writer, Calc and Impress now allow embedding fonts in their documents.

• It is now easy to include a series of photos in Impress with the “Photo Album” feature.

• Add a Stepped Lines line type to Line and XY (Scatter) graphs fdo#61135

• Especially for migrations, LibreOffice adds a number of significant improvements of interoperability with MS Office formats.

• A very large number of bugs have been fixed at an estimate of around 3000 bugs, of which 400 came from authors with apache.org mail addresses.

You can get the full list of changes in the release notes:
http://www.libreoffice.org/download/4-0-new-features-and-fixes/

For more information, visit:
http://www.libreoffice.org/

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