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Libreoffice is coming to Android and IOS eventually
THE DOCUMENT FOUNDATION has revealed that it is working on bringing Libreoffice to the Android and IOS mobile operating systems.
Ever since The Document Foundation spearheaded the Libreoffice project it has gone from strength to strength, with many Linux distributions opting to replace Openoffice with Libreoffice. Now the project is looking at bringing its application suite to Android and IOS.
The Libreoffice port project is based on the work of Tor Lillqvist and has the objective of porting the open source office suite to Apple's Ipad and Android tablets. There is also a plan to eventually port it to smaller devices, presumably smartphones.
While Libreoffice competes primarily against Microsoft's Office on the desktop, for tablets it will have to go up against Google Docs, Quickoffice and Apple's Iwork suite as well.
The Document Foundation warned that the tablet ports are "advanced development projects" and the user interface work has yet to begin, but said that "the bulk of the code is compiling". Releases are expected late 2012 or early 2013.
The Document Foundation also announced that the French government is switching 500,000 or so desktops from using Openoffice to Libreoffice. That will increase Libreoffice's Windows installed base by five per cent, claims the organisation.
Perhaps Libreoffice's announcement that it is working on an office suite for Android and IOS will spur Microsoft to bring its Office 365 out of Windows Phone and offer it on these competing mobile operating systems too. µ
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Most of the time there is no problem with OpenOffice, LibreOffice or other open document based office, but it is a problem of poorly documented and frequently modified .doc format. I frequently get completely screwed-up versions of native Word documents simply by transferring from Word 2010 to Word 2011, which should be exact clones, not speaking about incompatibilities between Excel 2003 and 2010.
Why don't OpenOffice or LibreOffice offer the user the ability to save or import a Word file that actually looks like a Word document that is correctly formatted.
The number of times I've imported a 10 page Word file to find it converted to 12+ pages due to line spacing errors.
I can't give a Word user a OpenOffice or LibreOffice exported Word file without it looking totally unprofessional.
Get the basics right lads!
I was actually trying to find a way to run OpenOffice on my smartphone, but with a real port things would bem a lot easier (Atrix with lapdock). Also, with tablets like the asus transformer, I could finally get rid of my atom netbook.