rtf, improved support for OOXML documents)

Improved displayed page number calculation.

Microsoft Word compatible text highlighting.

Ability to digitally sign PDF files during the exporting process.

Substantial user interface improvements.

DOCX Interoperability: Numerous significant improvements to interoperability with Microsoft Word's DOCX format.

format one or more characters with a border.

Writer textframes now support having a gradient as background.

Images embedded in writer can now be rotated easily in 90 degree increments.

Import ink annotations from DOCX and RTF documents.

Support for comments to text ranges in Writer.

Shows Text Boundaries depending on the choice of display unprintable characters.

Word count (whole document and selection) in status bar.

Import filter for Microsoft Visio documents.

Custom Shapes import was greatly enhanced, many bugs were fixed and new presets implementation added.

Better user interface for header/footer handling.Text rendering has been improved as text is now drawn via Cairo with the same subpixeling options as other Cairo-using apps.New gradient / drop-shadow to highlight writer pages, with configurable colors in the options.SVG import into Writer is now possible.Import of MS Works documents now possible.Versions for LibreOffice Writer include the following: Date Released Microsoft Works for Mac formats since 4.1 This is based on the same syntax for Graphite font feature.

For example, fontname:ss06&cv03 will set the font to stylistic set 6 and chose character variant 3. OpenType stylistic sets and character variants of fonts are not selectable from the menus, but can be specified manually in the font window.Scriptable and Remote Controllable via the UNO API.Database integration, including a bibliography database.Change tracking during revisions, document comparison (view changes between two files).Document signing, password and public-key (GPG) encryption.Ability to edit HTML, XHTML files visually without using code with WYSIWYG support.The ability to import and edit PDF files.Export in PDF format, generate hybrid PDF (a standard PDF with attached source ODF file) and create fillable PDF form.A spelling and grammar checker ( Hunspell).Writer is capable of opening and saving to a number of formats, including OpenDocument (ODT is its default format), Microsoft Word's DOC, DOCX, RTF and XHTML.

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