14 DAY TRIAL // The Document Foundation announces that the first RC version of LibreOffice 4.2.5 has been released and is now available for testing.
The developers from The Document Foundation have launched the first Release Candidate for the 4.2.5 branch, which comes with numerous changes and improvements.
According to the changelog, the text rotation has been fixed, the upper margin of multi-page floating table has been fixed, the set-all language menu has been added, output file extension is now adjusted when exporting, accepting and rejecting changes in a selection is now allowed, the strange brightness and contrast adjustment from Microsoft Office has been corrected, and the mapping between ATK and UNO roles has been improved.
Also, a crash that occurred when exploring has been fixed, the deletion of the paragraph following table has been corrected, excessive calls to GetPreviewCellStyle() have been avoided, and the RTF import has been improved.
In order to install it, you will need to enter a few commands in a terminal (you will need to be root in order for this to work):
sudo apt-get purge LibreOffice-core sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/libreoffice-4-2 sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install LibreOffice Remember that this is a development version and it should NOT be installed on production machines. It is intended for testing purposes only.
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