Download LibreOffice for Mac - Free office suite by members of the former OpenOffice.org community. MacUpdate.com

LibreOffice 3.5.3

Your rating: Now say why...

(62) 3.838709677419355

Free office suite by members of the former OpenOffice.org community. Free

Add to my Watch List
Email me when discounted

Download Now
170 MB
Download PPC
170 MB
Visit Developer's Site
The Document Foundation

LibreOffice is an office suite (word processor, spreadsheet, presentations, drawing tool) compatible with other major office suites.

The Document Foundation is coordinating development and maintenance of this OpenOffice.org fork.

What's New

Version 3.5.3:

This release is bit-for-bit identical to the 3.5.3 Release Candidate 2, so you don't need to download or reinstall if you have that version already.
LibreOffice contains all the security fixes from OpenOffice.org in 3.3.0, and perhaps more as a side-effect of the code clean-ups.
Microsoft Office 2010 will complain that ODF 1.2 and extended documents written by LibreOffice 3.5 are invalid (but opens them still). This is a shortcoming in MSO2010 only supporting ODF 1.1, please see here for further details.

Version 3.5.3:

This release is bit-for-bit identical to the 3.5.3 Release Candidate 2, so you don't need to download or reinstall if you have that version already.
LibreOffice contains all the security fixes from OpenOffice.org in 3.3.0, and perhaps more as a side-effect of the code clean-ups.
Microsoft Office 2010 will complain that ODF 1.2 and extended documents written by LibreOffice more...

Requirements
Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later

Related Links
Other language versions available here

Bean

+39
Free

A fast and uncluttered word ...
Microsoft Offi...

+6
Updater $149.99

Popular productivity suite; ...
Nisus Writer P...

+4
Demo $79

Multilingual word processor ...
Apple iWork

+3
Updater $79.99

Productivity software suite ...
Mellel

+3
Shareware $39

Powerful word processor for ...
WriteRoom

+1
Shareware $24.95

Fullscreen distraction-free ...

LibreOffice User Discussion (Write a Review)

ver. 3.x:

(62)

Your rating: Now say why...

Overall:

(62)

sort: smiles | time

-2

-4

Neartheredrocks commented on 13 Apr 2012

At least on my Mac, Libreoffice considers all Postscript fonts as "not installed".

If Libreoffice indeed can not work with Postscript fonts I would consider it almost completely worthless.

What is it with Libreoffice and Postscript fonts?

[Version 3.5.2]

2 Replies

+29

JCH2 replied on 02 May 2012

Just curious, but is there a specific need you have for PS vs. OT or TT fonts?

-3

-6

nobody2011 replied on 02 May 2012

He just wanted to comment.

+258

Bigboysdad reviewed on 31 Mar 2012

This is perfect (and I mean perfect) for amending/ changing wording within PDF files.

[Version 3.5.1]

2 Replies

+138

Thyx replied on 14 May 2012

"Perfect" as in "works good enough"? Just curious.
Afak, there is no way to modify complex PDFs and keep the original text pixel-perfect.

+258

Bigboysdad replied on 15 May 2012

Well, this is my experience with it - everytime I've needed to change the wording on a PDF, even if it's seemingly locked, I just click on the relevant section of whatever word/ words I want to change and duly change it/ them. Then I save it in Libreoffice's native format and after that, back to PDF. Done this countless times with 100% success rate so far and in terms of the pixel issue, no one yet has detected that it's been played with. Granted, nothing too complex and we're only talking about words/ letters, not graphics but hey, it works for me and very quickly too.

+10

Ronnb reviewed on 29 Mar 2012

I use the presentation part of Libreoffice often and find problems that need addressing such as the inability to print the notes portion of the slide presentation - only the slide itself gets printed.
"Recent documents", as of the current build, does not work; it shows no document history.
Otherwise, this is a very useful set of tools for presentation.

[Version 3.5.1]

-2

Kowalski1 reviewed on 24 Mar 2012

Excellent program, perfect for inputting complex math formulae with ease! Converted from ms office and apple works about 6 months ago and haven't faced any issues yet.

Only complain is the update procedure which is non existent forcing you to download almost 200Mb every time an update is available...

[Version 3.5.1]

+23

BlackMacX reviewed on 15 Mar 2012

I have used LibreOffice since it calved from OpenOffice and find it generally to be great. My whole family use it and haven't had issue until v3.5.0 (in my case RC3) where documents saved as .doc don't display fonts correctly once saved (even though they display correctly initially when setup). The happens with bulletpoints and only seems to happen with saving to .doc format; .odt format isn't affected nor is exporting to a PDF. So I believe the issue is with the rendering engine or font recognition within LO and specific to .doc files. My wife created a file on her system, saved as a .doc and also .odt; sent the .doc to me as it was displaying the above problems on her machine and so wanted to try on mine; same issue. Both machines come with a standard Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 install of fonts and no extra fonts have been added. So I have to assume the issue is with LO as other programs don't have similar issues with .doc files and bullet points in the same fonts (specifically Arial 10 and 12).

That said, overall LO is a great app and I will continue to use it.

[Version 3.5.1]

1 Reply

Exegete77 replied on 05 Apr 2012

I have found the same problem.

Also, the scrolling is almost non-existent. Frustrating.

Still a decent program.

+37

Big-Mac-XXL reviewed on 22 Feb 2012

Nice as the previous version. Just one big bug. All Impress slideshows are displayed with broken fonts. The fonts are all narrowed down and with huge empty spaces between them. In LO 3.4 just fine, in LO 3.5 broken. For Impress you need LO 3.4 on your Mac, for the largely enhanced Writer and Calc I recommend 3.5. No problem in running both parallel on the Mac (but not at the same time). And the white GUI of LibreO needs a major overhaul!

[Version 3.5.0]

1 Reply

Vossman77 replied on 02 May 2012

I reported this bug also, and this was fixed in version 3.5.1

Haibara commented on 18 Feb 2012

Before I commit to a ~200MB download (they still DO need a "Download and update only changed files" feature, or something like that), is LibreOffice using Aqua versions, like the version of OpenOffice I'm currently using, or is it still largely run through X11?

I can't tell from the screenshot, which looks like it's probably from a Linux version, or _maybe_ Windows.

[Version 3.5.0]

2 Replies

+37

Big-Mac-XXL replied on 22 Feb 2012

LO is the same as OOo, but much further developed. X11 is not necessary, just like in OOo. The screenshot is for strange reasons one of Linux or some other OS.

Haibara replied on 28 Feb 2012

Thanks. (Sorry for the late reply, I was away until today. :|)

-2

+13

Stef_Vandenabele reviewed on 18 Feb 2012

It is not bad but if you only need a word processor you HAVE to take a look at Bean. By miles the best for doing such thing.

[Version 3.5.0]

+13

Tsehov reviewed on 16 Feb 2012

It will not even start: just a crash report comes visible. Using Lion on MBP 2007. Luckily previous version works.

[Version 3.5.0]

2 Replies

+37

Big-Mac-XXL replied on 22 Feb 2012

Your LO Prefs are corrupted. Lay the folder LibreOffice from ApplicationSupport in the trash. Then it will work. But you have to enter all LibreOffice preferences anew. Annoying.

+13

Tsehov replied on 22 Feb 2012

Thank You, Big-Mac-XXL. I did just what you said and now LO works just fine.

-7

Markusbern reviewed on 15 Feb 2012

The app is not working with Mac. MS office, NeoOffice and Mellel is the way to go.

[Version 3.5.0]

2 Replies

+96

Gregm replied on 15 Feb 2012

Working just fine on my Snow Leopard Mac --- including opening "real" MS Office files. Did you read the info on how to update from an older-than-245 version?

+37

Big-Mac-XXL replied on 22 Feb 2012

Maybe your LO preferences are just corrupted, which happens often and will only be noticed at program upgrades. Lay the folder LibreOffice from ApplicationSupport in the trash. Then it will work. But you have to enter all LibreOffice preferences anew. That's a lil annoying.

Bjoernowitsch had trouble on 05 Apr 2012

As I downloaded the new release of LibreOffice, I found that the spell checker and hyphenation do not work. In the previous version of LibreOffice, 3.5.1, I was unable to set the file location for my documents freely, i.e. select a folder somwhere outside of the system disk. This was corrected in the 3.5.2, but instead, I find the language module, at least in Swedish, disabled.

[Version 3.5.2]

1 Reply

Bjoernowitsch replied on 05 Apr 2012

In case I cannot remove my previous comment, I can now report that the most recent version of LibreOffice, the 3.5.2, works as it should. The spell checker now works in Swedish as well, and misspelled words are also underlined in red.

+12

Diogo Cocharro had trouble on 26 May 2011

I support very much everything that as open source philosophy, and this product is a very good achievement, but as small bug (also the same in openoffice) that for me is very annoying, and it seems that wasn't noticed yet, when you turn on "invisibles" this changes the shape and distance of the characters.
I didn't move yet to libreOffice because of this, "I can not trust on what I'm looking".
Thanks

[Version 3.4beta4]