LibreOffice Vanilla 5.2 available directly from the Mac App Store

1 September 20161 October 2020 William Gathoye 1 Comment

LibreOffice 5.2

LibreOffice Vanilla

Just before the LibreOffice Conference 2016 in Brno, LibreOffice Vanilla 5.2.1.1 for the Mac has been released. This is the most recent release of the LibreOffice productivity suite from The Document Foundation on OS X, and includes many improvements and bug fixes. Improvement include a new single toolbar mode (which is optional), new Calc spreadsheet functions, support for signature descriptions, and more. Please check the complete Release Notes page on the website of The Document Foundation.

Collabora Office for the Mac

While LibreOffice Vanilla is recommended for early adopters who want to test the latest features, Collabora Productivity also offers the enterprise-ready version LibreOffice Vanilla: Collabora Office for the Mac. This is the best option for users seeking professional stability and support options and combines Collabora’s latest compatibility and document integrity features with a host of improvements from the LibreOffice community.

LibreOffice Vanilla 5.2 and Collabora Office 5.1 are now available directly from Apple’s Mac App Store.

LibreOffice Vanilla 5.2

Community edition
Maintained for 6 months
For early adopters
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Get if for free at the Mac App store
or download for free from libreoffice.org

Collabora Office 5.1

Enterprise-ready LibreOffice
Maintained for 3 years
For users seeking professional stability and support options

Get it for 9.99 at the Mac App Store *
* This funds Collabora’s own ongoing improvement of LibreOffice for Mac.

LibreOffice Vanilla 5.1 available directly from the Mac App Store

6 April 20161 October 2020 William Gathoye Leave a comment

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LibreOffice Vanilla 5.1.1.3 is the most recent release of the LibreOffice productivity suite on OS X and is almost identical to the latest copy of LibreOffice Fresh by Document Foundation contributors. The suite has improved significantly as explained in the Release Notes page on documentfoundation.org.

One of the new features that stands out is the Remote file open/save dialogue. You can now easily open and save remote files from resources as Google Drive, OneDrive, SharePoint, Alfresco and others. In the Start screen and “File” menu you can find the “Open remote files” option, and to save to a remote resource, just select “Save to remote server”.

Writer – new features

Calc – new features

Collabora Office for the Mac, the enterprise-ready version of LibreOffice Vanilla

While LibreOffice Vanilla is recommended for early adopters who wish to experience new features, Collabora Productivity also released Collabora Office for the Mac. Collabora Office is the enterprise-ready version LibreOffice Vanilla, for users seeking professional stability and support options and combines Collabora’s latest compatibility and document integrity features with a host of improvements from the LibreOffice community. Redesigned toolbars, menus, rulers, and dialogues make these powerful additions more attractive and efficient to use.

Changes from 4.4 to 5.0

A lot of changes have been made. Many of the improvements are under the hood, but the Mac version of Collabora Office 5.0 also significantly improved the User Interface. Now there are style previews in the sidebar and there is image cropping, table management, conditional formatting (in Calc) and more. Additionally, the Remote file open/save dialogue from LibreOffice Vanilla 5.1 has been backported, so that this useful functionality is also included.

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LibreOffice Vanilla 5.1 and Collabora Office 5.0 are now available directly from Apple’s Mac App Store.

LibreOffice Vanilla 5.1

Community edition
Maintained for 6 months
For early adopters
.

Get if for free at the Mac App store
or download for free from libreoffice.org

Collabora Office 5.0

Enterprise-ready LibreOffice
Maintained for 3 years
For users seeking professional stability and support options

Get it for 9.99 at the Mac App Store *
* This funds Collabora’s own ongoing improvement of LibreOffice for Mac.

Collabora launches enterprise-ready LibreOffice in the Mac App Store

18 June 201529 July 2020 Michael Meeks Leave a comment

The world’s most popular Open Source Office Suite is now available on OS X via one-step install following Collabora Productivity’s launch today of two new apps in the Mac App Store. End-users can get LibreOffice on OS X with automatic updates, long-term maintenance, and optional professional support, for the first time.

LibreOffice-from-Collabora for Mac splash screen

For $10 LibreOffice-from-Collabora provides the enterprise-hardened productivity suite for business and public sector, including three years of maintenance updates. LibreOffice Vanilla is the latest code from ‘LibreOffice Fresh‘ by the Document Foundation, packaged and maintained by Collabora free of charge as a service to the community.

Professional training and fast-response support are additionally available from the company, exclusively for LibreOffice-from-Collabora.

“Collabora continues its march into new markets bringing the power and flexibility of Open Source to professional users” said Michael Meeks, Collabora Productivity General Manager. “Simultaneously we’re introducing an easy new way to get LibreOffice Fresh from the Document Foundation, while providing in-app donation links to support their work”.

Editing spreadsheets in LibreOffice-from-Collabora Calc — Editing a spreadsheet in Calc

A slideshow in LibreOffice-from-Collabora Impress — Editing a slideshow in Impress

“The Mac App Store now offers individuals the same new features and business-critical stability enjoyed by Collabora Productivity’s enterprise customers” said Philippe Kalaf, Collabora CEO. “For a fraction of the cost of competing apps, Mac users get the leading office suite in its class with a direct path to the best support available”.

The Mac App Store joins existing Collabora Productivity outlets Google Play and AWS Marketplace for Desktop Apps. LibreOffice-from-Collabora can be purchased directly from LibreOffice-from-Collabora.com for 50 users or more. Desktop and Android editions will be joined by web-based LibreOffice Online later this year. LibreOffice Online is developed by Collabora Productivity and IceWarp.

LibreOffice is an Open Source project by the non-profit Document Foundation, and the work of thousands of talented independent contributors worldwide. Collabora thanks the community for their effort, cooperation, and achievement.

A document in LibreOffice-from-Collabora Writer — Editing a document in Writer

Reviewing recent documents in LibreOffice-from-Collabora — Reviewing recent documents

About Collabora Productivity:: Collabora Productivity delivers LibreOffice products and consulting. With the largest team of certified LibreOffice engineers, it is a leading contributor to the LibreOffice code base and community. LibreOffice-from-Collabora provides a business-hardened office suite with long term multi-platform support. Collabora Productivity is a division of Collabora Ltd., the global software consultancy specializing in providing the benefits of Open Source to the commercial world, specialising in automotive, semiconductors, digital TV and consumer electronics industries.

LibreOffice Vanilla: Fresh from the community to your Mac

18 June 201529 July 2020 Michael Meeks 6 Comments

Fresh Vanilla

From today Mac users have a new and convenient way to install LibreOffice on OS X. Launched this morning, the LibreOffice Vanilla app is almost identical to the latest copy of LibreOffice Fresh by Document Foundation contributors. It comes fresh from them, to you, after packaging by Collabora, and distribution by Apple.

LibreOffice Vanilla on OSX splash screen — LibreOffice Vanilla on OS X splash screen

Free delivery

App Stores are a brilliantly convenient way to find and manage third party software, offering secure downloads, user reviews and more. When we decided to release a Mac App Store version of our own product, LibreOffice-from-Collabora, we wanted regular LibreOffice users to enjoy the same benefits of App Store delivery. Apple has strict rules for publishers using its stores, including a range of legal, technical, and visual requirements. As a “thank you” to the community we’ve spent the last few months making the necessary improvements to pass the stringent app-store validation, and contributing these back to LibreOffice.

Suite recognition

We say the app is “almost identical” because there’s one small, but important, difference. Until now, most Mac users visit the LibreOffice website to download an installer file, and in doing so are presented with an opportunity to donate to support ongoing development of LibreOffice at the Document Foundation. The Mac App Store lacks a comparable mechanism to solicit much needed financial support, short of using Apple APIs to add in-app purchasing, or requiring payment for every download. For that reason we’ve added a pop-up window when the application starts, containing direct links to the Foundation and its donation form. The screen also explains the relationship of the app to Collabora.

LibreOffice Vanilla provides access to the latest innovations from the LibreOffice community to millions of App Store users. With luck this will accelerate LibreOffice adoption, empower users to communicate their gratitude, and endow the Foundation with a fresh revenue stream. Users seeking professional stability, and support options, can purchase LibreOffice-from-Collabora, which funds Collabora’s own ongoing improvement of LibreOffice for Mac.

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