IBM releases Lotus Symphony 1.3

IBM has announced the release of Lotus Symphony 1.3, an alternative suite to Microsoft Office. The productivity tool suite consists of three component applications, Documents, Spreadsheets and Presentations

Lotus Symphony 1.3 includes several usability and functionality enhancements and has also improved interoperability with Microsoft Office 2007. The release now supports the importing of Microsoft Office 2007 files and includes enhancements to DataPilot tables in spreadsheets. Password protection support has been added for Microsoft Office and IBM Lotus SmartSuite spreadsheets and significant improvements have been made to improve the overall performance on Mac OS X systems.

What’s New in Symphony 1.3?

Functional enhancements:

• Enabled Microsoft® Office 2007 files import support.
  
• Numbering enhancement in documents to improve interoperability with Microsoft Word.
  
• Enabled Microsoft Office and IBM Lotus SmartSuite® password protection support for spreadsheets.
  
• Significant start-up performance improvement on Mac OS X.
  

Usability enhancements:

• Provided better animation effects interoperability with Microsoft PowerPoint on font-relative effects, fade-exit effects, and multiple motion paths; and enabled the animation play at automatic page transitions.
  
• Provided new graphic bullets and clip art.
  
• Provided enhanced color pallette in color picker.
  
• Enabled support that allows you to open a file by dragging and dropping a file to the home page or the New.
  

Lotus Symphony 1.3 is available to download for Windows, Mac OS X, Ubuntu, Red Hat and SUSE Linux.

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