A click package is now available for download

Nov 8, 2015 22:00 GMT  ·  By

Canonical's Alan Pope informed us this past weekend about the general availability of a preview version of the upcoming LibreOffice DocViewer app for the Ubuntu Touch mobile operating system for Ubuntu Phone devices.

We've written several articles on Softpedia about LibreOffice DocViewer, teasing you, guys, with screenshots and information about the first official Ubuntu Touch app designed from the ground up as a viewer for various LibreOffice documents.

Thanks to the amazing work of various Ubuntu Touch developers in the past few months, the LibreOffice DocViewer app is now ready for public testing, and the good news is that it has just been integrated with LibreOfficeKit 5.0.3.

What that means is that you will be able to use the app to view common office documents created with the LibreOffice office suite directly on your Ubuntu Touch-powered device.

"It's not ready for prime time so we haven't uploaded it to the store yet," said Alan Pope. "It's very much a preliminary 'beta' but we wanted to share it to get wider testing among our technical audience."

It can open legacy Microsoft Office documents

At the moment, the LibreOffice DocViewer app is capable of opening LibreOffice documents, presentations, and sheets in the popular formats outputted by the open-source office suite. Additionally, it can also open legacy Microsoft Office documents.

According to Mr. Pope, it would appear that the developers behind this grandiose project are currently working hard on finishing the user interface for displaying and zooming documents, as well as for the full-screen and page-flipping functionality.

Ubuntu Phone owners who want to take the LibreOffice DocViewer app for a test drive can download and install the click package right now, just please remember to drop the LibreOffice documents in the /home/phablet/Documents folder. If not, take a look at the screenshots below for more details about what the app looks like.

LibreOffice DocViewer (5 Images)

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