The result was LibreOffice, a new fork of the code base that's maintained by a nonprofit organization called the Document Foundation. Before long, key developers, unhappy with the status quo under Oracle, began defecting from the project. But when Oracle acquired Sun in April 2009, the future of Sun's software offerings - particularly free ones like - was called into question. Originally developed as StarOffice in the late 1990s, the suite had been managed in recent years by Sun Microsystems as an open source project. Support for system C++ is one of the leading competitors to the Microsoft Office suite of business productivity applications. Module binfilter removed (legacy StarOffice file formats (.sdw. Changes that Impact Backwards Compatibility. Calc and Chart Improvements/Enhancements. Corrected Hatch fill style visualization.

Transparency support for pixel formats (PNG). Unified visualization of Color Palette popup. Refined the Selection Handles User Interface. New Gallery Themes and Gallery enhancements. Interoperability Improvements for Text Documents, Spreadsheet Documents, Presentation Documents and OOXML file format in general. OpenOffice has supported extensions, in a similar manner to Mozilla Firefox, making easy to add new functionality to an existing OpenOffice installation.įeatures: 170+ Languages. OpenOffice is also able to export files in PDF format. OpenOffice is available in many languages, works on all common computers, stores data in ODF - the international open standard format - and is able to read and write files in other formats, included the format used by the most common office suite packages. Apache OpenOffice is an open-source office productivity software suite containing word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, graphics, formula editor, and database management applications.

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