Apache Open Office 3.4

A wonderful Multiplatform and Multilingual Office Suite

Numerous enhancements to leading Open Source multi-platform, multi-lingual office productivity suite with over 100M users worldwide;
downloads now available for Windows, Linux and Macintosh free of charge.

www.OpenOffice.org —8 May 2012— The Apache OpenOffice Project announced the availability of Apache OpenOffice™ 3.4,

The first release of OpenOffice under the governance of the Apache Software Foundation.

Apache OpenOffice is the original open source office productivity suite, designed for professional and consumer use.

"With the donation of OpenOffice.org to the ASF, the Foundation, and especially the podling project, was given a daunting task: re-energize a community and transform OpenOffice from a codebase of unknown Intellectual Property heritage, to a vetted and Apache Licensed software suite," said Jim Jagielski, ASF President and an Apache Open Office project mentor.

"The release of Apache Open Office 3.4 shows just how successful the project has been: pulling in developers from over 21 corporate affiliations, while avoiding undue influence which is the death-knell of true open source communities; building a solid and stable codebase, with significant improvement and enhancements over other variants; and, of course, creating a healthy, vibrant and diverse user and developer community."

Apache Open Office is the leading open source office productivity suite, with more than 100 million users worldwide in home, corporate, government, research, and academic environments, across 15 languages. Apache Open Office 3.4 is available for download free of charge.

Open Office 3.4 features:

word processing, spreadsheets, presentation graphics, databases, drawing, and mathematical editing applications support for Windows, Linux (32-bit and 64-bit) and Macintosh operating environments
native language support for English, Arabic, Czech, German, Spanish, French, Galician, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Russian, Brazilian Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese
improved ODF support, including new ODF 1.2 encryption options and new spreadsheet functions
enhanced pivot table support in Calc
enhanced graphics, including line caps, shear transformations and native support for Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
improvements in performance and quality
The complete list of new features, functions, and improvements is available in the Release Notes.
Apache OpenOffice users also benefit from a broad ecosystem of 3rd party products, including over 2300 templates and over 800 extensions.