In general, I've been quite impressed, and my previous version of LibreOffice, which came with Fedora 17, had its little quirks, but I could live with them. I'm running an older Fedora Linux x86_64, and I haven't bothered to upgrade because it works for me.
The application suggested I upgrade to LO 5, so I did, thinking some of the quirks would be fixed. Not so, but I learned to live with the new quirks. Now I find that there are quirks I can't live with.
- Quirks
- While looking at a spreadsheet (*.ods file), I try to open a *.html file. For some reason, 5.0.1.2 wants to import it as a spreadsheet. The previous version recognized it as HTML and opened the writer.
- Changing a font is strange. If I click on the pulldown, it shows a number of fonts, but not Arial. Funny thing, though, is if I type in Arial, it find it. The first time I figured this out, I mis-typed it as ARial. Now I cannot access the font Arial but have to use ARial.
- I had a table of contents with hyperlinks to pages in my HTML document. Essentially, I created bookmarks and then the table of contents referenced those bookmarks. This worked fine until 5.0.1.2. Now on saving the document, it loses the "#target" and now has an href of "../book5", even though the original document is in "book5".
- In some documents, I don't want any <META> entries added. I can no longer figure out how to disable the adding of <META> tags. It seems that every save wants to generate <META> tags to indicate the date/time of my last save.
- When I want to "Save as...", the pulldown list of formats has about a dozen blank format types before the first valid type.
Now when I run LibreOffice, it complains about not finding javaldx. I have no idea what that is or how to get it. It then pops up an error window and tells me that the installation failed and shuts down.
This has become too much work to upgrade. I'm going back to 5.0.1.2, and I guess I'll have to use vi or Emacs to fix the hyperlinks.
