ONLYOFFICE 8.1: Full PDF Editor, new slide master, better RTL, and more

OnlyOffice Desktop Editors is an open-source office suite distributed under AGPL v.3 that combines text, spreadsheet and presentation editors allowing to create, view and edit documents stored on your computer. The application does not require constant connection to the Internet and allows youto create, edit, save and export text, spreadsheet and presentation documents. It is fully compatible with Office Open XML formats: .docx, .xlsx, .pptx.

One pack - three editors - multiple features

Create, view and edit text documents, spreadsheets and presentations of any size and complexity. Work on documents of most popular formats: DOCX, ODT, XLSX, ODS, CSV, PPTX, ODP, etc. Deal with multiple files within one and the same window thanks to the tab-based user interface. Highest compatibility with Microsoft Office formats.

Real-time collaboration within your favorite cloud

Connect ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors to the cloud platform of your choice: ONLYOFFICE, Nextcloud or ownCloud to collaborate on documents with your team – co-edit in real time, review, comment and interact using chat.

Extending your editing capabilities

Take the most of your editing with the collection of third-party plugins. Insert a YouTube video, add special symbols or a ClipArt object, automatically translate any word or sentence, highlight code, etc. Do even more! Create your own plugin using the API documentation and ready-to-use examples available on GitHub.

ONLYOFFICE DesktopEditors 8.1.0 changelog:

Full-featured PDF Editor

PDF is an extremely popular file format in business workflow. We suppose you often need to open various brochures in PDF, fill in agreements and contracts from partners and colleagues, etc.

Native PDF Editor. Along with viewing and annotating, it now also supports:

Text editing

Working with pages (adding, rotating, deleting)
Inserting and adjusting of various objects such as tables, shapes, text boxes, images, TextArt, hyperlinks, equations, etc.
Besides, we enhanced the annotating mode. A mini-toolbar now opens for more convenient and straightforward work with annotations. You are able to add text comments and callouts via a toolbar, as well as remove comments via the context menu.
By switching between the modes, you can either edit a PDF file or view and annotate it.

PDF forms

With this release, we completely switched to PDF forms. To create a form, you don’t need to use other formats. This means that we say goodbye to our DOCXF format which was previously used for building form templates.
All this – to make the process easier for you. So, in version 8.1, you are able to create complex forms and fill them out online, completely in PDF, in the web and desktop apps.

What’s new in the document editor

Page color. Apply the required background color for your pages. In case you open a document created in another office suite and it has any page color set, ONLYOFFICE document editor will also recognize and display it in the right way.
Page numbering format. Easily customize the format for the numbering in your documents to make it look as you need.
Seamless switching between modes. Switch between the Editing, Reviewing or Viewing modes with one click. What’s important, this works individually for each user. So, you won’t affect or disturb other co-authors.

What’s new in spreadsheets

More security. Restrict viewing of cells in the protected range to protect important data.
Collaboration in spreadsheets becomes more comfortable thanks to highlighting the changed cells in the Version History.
GETPIVOTDATA and IMPORTRANGE functions;
tips for inserting custom functions;
ability to copy/move sheets between workbooks within one browser.

What’s new in presentations

Slide Master. Quickly apply the same layout across multiple slides.
Animation pane. Display animation effects applied to your slides on the timeline.

Useful improvements in all editors

Shadow settings for shapes. Apply a shadow to the inserted shapes and adjust its properties, including transparency, size, angle, and distance.
Extended set of color schemes. Give your files an individual look by choosing among an extended number of available color schemes.

RTL & new localization options

We are constantly improving localization of ONLYOFFICE Docs to make our suite accessible to all users, all over the world. Refining RTL support is one of the most important directions for us. With with release, among enhancements for RTL are:

improved word order;
correct alignment for different text types.
Besides, in version 8.1, you will find:
support for multiple new languages in the spreadsheet editor, including Bengali and Sinhala;
Serbian – Cyrillic localization for the editors (sr-Cyrl-RS). [full release notes]

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