LibreOffice Vanilla App Reviews

Great office suite. Still a few OS X specific bugs but stability is slowly improving and LO is becoming usable.

Well, I’m very disappointed that this new version available here from the App Store continues to print all documents sideways, as is noted by many of the other reviews. I have discovered that if this LibreOffice Vanilla is removed (put in the trash), and if LibreOffice is directly downloaded from the LibreOffice website, that it does not have this problem. The issue lies with the version available from the App Store only. You will have to make sure you give permission to download apps directly from third parties in the settings app. If you want to continue using this Vanilla version from the App Store, then the WORKAROUND is to export the document you wish to print as a PDF file and open it with Adobe Acrobat Reader or another app that can read and print PDF—and doing this it will not print the document sideways. Only the version at the App Store is called Vanilla, not the one on the LibreOffice website, and I imagine that this is because it is a beginner, simple, or inexperienced version, as the word Vanilla can denote, thus it is aptly named. The app directly from their website is called LibreOffice Fresh.

As mentioned by @valkillpack, this version is not usable until the page setup issue is fixed. I tried using “Page…” under Format, but it already shows Portrait mode and no matter if/how I change that setting and Apply it, it makes no difference. Yes, it’s free, but I can no longer recommend it until this issue is fixed.

I find it appalling that something as basic as Print has been fouled up. Text document portrait pages are distorted so they print landscape. Print Preview shows it as fine. I know it’s free but even free should work. However, unlike Numbers you can delete single cells - so it goes from a 1 star to 2 star. I have to work with both numbers and this for my project - it’s quite annoying.

LibreOffice with Mac App Store is very pleasant with automatic update, but today it’s impossible to open a file from the Finder, only the openning in LibreOffice works.

Why LibreOffice from Collabora is not free ?

It is pretty much the same you get off the Libre office website. I think the main difference is this one will update itself through the appstore (wich I prefer and is why I use this app). I just wish to say that the app seems to have some bugs when you put it in split screen or full screen, it sometimes will crash but it never looses your documents (thankfully), even if they are unsaved. I would recomend anyone to use this, it’s just as good as it’s counterpart Microsoft Office but it’s free.

Work’s fine. But the Sifr-Theme is still missing...

I use libre office to edit .pdf files. Simply drag a pdf onto Libre office and you can edit them quite nicely. This feature doesn’t work with the App store Vanilla version… so I went back to the one downloaded directly. And I donated there :-)

LibreOffice is a good free substitution for the MS equivalent. Unfortunatelly the ver 5.x release currently shows reduced performance - the applications respond slowly to mouse clicks and inputs from the user although I am using the newest hardware (early 2015 MBP model). This is really irritating. -The displayed equations are not optimized for the retina display and look like a low-res image. -I am still not convinced that the revamped interface is an improvement, although I do see some handy new features and ideas there. -When defining my own colours by specifying RGB or CMYK values, LO resets them to some other values leading to different colour being defined, although indeed the differences are not too significant. -Recently I had also problems with a Writer document containing a lot of math and page breaks which lead to crashes of LO. The same document on a Windows machine created no problems at all. Bottom line: nice application but consider sticking with the 4.x line of LO until the bugs in 5.x are removed and the applications are optimized for the new Apple hardware.

… LibreOffice is a serious alternative to the proprietary and expensive Microsoft Office. I am really happy it exists and it’s slowly improving.

Very useful, and this channel via AppStore is great. Good release policy. I am missing the function for split view (under "Window") in the german release of Calc though :-(

This Vanilla version has a printing format problem such as printing in lanscape. I had to install a web LibreOffice 5.0.3 for Mac OS X from the web…

works as it should be….

One star because a word processor that cant properly print a simple text document isnt ready for prime time. This office suite should be pulled from the Mac app store until this show-stopping bug is fixed! PRINTING PROBLEM The printer defaults to landscape mode for a simple text document — and even then it doesnt print the bottom paragraphs on each page. Disgraceful! And I didnt immediately see a setting for changing the default print orientation to portrait from landscape. But its obviously buggy: even in landscape mode the missing paragraphs should have printed at the top of the next page. Later I was able to print the same files without any problem using LibreOffice 4.4.7 which I installed from the LibreOffice website. I have been using LibreOffice (and previously OpenOffice) for more years than I can remember, and tended to stick with versions that met my needs. But on upgrading my mid-2010 iMac to OS 10.11 El Capitan I resolved to install only software from the Mac app store. Im appalled that Apple has allowed this buggy, slipshod LibreOffice knockoff into the Mac app store! The fact that its free is irrelevant. Time wasted on buggy free software is still wasted. SETTING LANGUAGE On installation of LibreOffice Vanilla the language setting doesnt default to the downloaders location. After wasting some time I eventually discovered how to make Canadian spelling the default. But why -- if you dont want to default to the main language at the users IP address -- not allow the language to be chosen the first time the application is started up. CANT PASTE INTO SAVE-AS DIALOG BOX This is a minor point, but for convenience and to avoid typos I often paste the names of new documents into the "Save As" dialog box. This is possible in other versions of LibreOffice and OpenOffice that I have used, as it is in most applications that I use.

It still insists on sending everything to the printer in landscape format. Microsoft Office has nothing to fear from this product.

This version is useless for me. Writer/Calc/Draw/Impress lose formatting for justified text when exporting to PDF. The same bug exists in the official version downloaded directly from the developers Libre Office.

1) Double click on .odt, .docx and similar files (made default for LibreOffice Vanilla). 2) LibreOffice Vanilla starts and only shows start up window but no file double clicked The problem doesn’t exist in LibreOffice from libreoffice.org

i got my install permanently crashing on opening any CSV files. the packaged version does not have any support because the support link leads NOT to Collabora who does not care, but to LibreOffice community which cannot help you with that weirdly screwed app version. they just cannot reproduce your bugs because they have different codebase. i DO NOT recommmend to install that app. you would rather find and install the initial app from LibreOffice website.

I love Libreoffice and I love Apple App store. But apparantly Collabora can mess up this great combination. Downloading from Libreoffice directly this application works fine. Downloading from the App store it won’t print portrait mode. It will preint preview correctly but as soon as you hit a print driver it always goes to landscape. This can hurt the entire Libreoffice reputation. Please fix.