GenOffice v0.13.18 stable desktop installers. The headline of this release is legacy .ppt support: PowerPoint 97-2003 presentations open and convert to editable .pptx.
What's New
- Slides: legacy PowerPoint 97-2003
.pptfiles now open — from the Open dialog, drag and drop, file association or the CLI — as an editable.pptxcopy (@tokg-venv); the conversion carries shapes at their anchors, solid, gradient, pattern and texture fills, pictures and WMF/EMF artwork, text styles, bullets and auto-numbering, tab stops and indents, outlines, backgrounds and master/layout inheritance, checked against PowerPoint on 150+ real decks; export a presentation as an MP4 video from File → Export as Video (MP4)… — slide timings, transitions, animations and recorded narration included, 1080p or 720p, encoded locally (requested by @mictienhung); 4- and 9-up handouts with a slide order option (@tokg-venv); line breaking follows the run's language and macOS 26 downloadable fonts are found (@gloomydumber); text kerning, tab stops and Office font lookup match PowerPoint more closely. - Docs: Save As offers PDF, HTML and Markdown next to Word; a story view hides the formatting while you write (@tokg-venv); update the table of contents from its context menu (@aniruddhaadak80); a drag across table cells selects text across them (@aniruddhaadak80, @Xtzdd); tracked changes reach inline objects (@widechaos, @tokg-venv); print jobs state the document's paper size (@tokg-venv); EMF+ pictures draw their skipped records (@tokg-venv); localized CJK font names resolve through the system font table (@tokg-venv); context submenus stay inside the window (@tokg-venv); tables, repeated headers, footnotes, CJK line breaking, Arabic, Bengali and missing-font substitution lay out closer to Word across two more 100-document comparisons.
- Sheets: slicers and timelines persist across save (@tokg-venv); break and change-source for external links with a cross-workbook range picker (@tokg-venv); delimited imports stream, show progress and can be stopped (@tokg-venv); x14 conditional formatting can be deleted (@aniruddhaadak80, reported by @putude); print areas follow renamed sheets (@pblsketch); sorting right after open keeps formulas and shared formula groups intact (@MidsummerYU, @NoeFaucher); CSV/PDF export and Print wait for formula results (@MidsummerYU); pictures pasted from Office apps survive the save (@tokg-venv); workbooks open faster (@pblsketch); the cell context menu stays inside the window (@rajabalu).
- PDF: find sensitive-info patterns for redaction; a default zoom setting for newly opened files (requested by @matchapudding486-spec); the print dialog offers the printer's driver options (@tokg-venv); Undo/Redo for Replace pages, Page size, Crop and Insert PDF, and owner-password unlock (@MidsummerYU); text edits keep their standard font and preview (@NoeFaucher); PowerPoint export keeps each page's text on its own slide (@NoeFaucher).
- App: the last session is restored by default; MCP gains convert_document and check_document (@tokg-venv);
set_header_footercan target a section and MCP install accepts compact-schema entries (@prototype-of-ks); a failed save leaves one rescue copy (@tokg-venv); recent-file probes no longer block startup (@widechaos); Windows console output decodes correctly (@Xtzdd); OS trash launcher works across platforms (@rsmp15); hardened ODF, HWP and PPTX import against malformed files (@aniruddhaadak80, @Xtzdd); Brazilian Portuguese polish (@tonmarcondes).
Thanks to @tokg-venv, @aniruddhaadak80, @NoeFaucher, @MidsummerYU, @Xtzdd, @pblsketch, @widechaos, @gloomydumber, @prototype-of-ks, @rajabalu, @rsmp15, @AidenYangX, @tonmarcondes for the contributions, and to everyone who filed reports and requests.
Downloads
- macOS Apple Silicon:
GenOffice-0.13.18-arm64.dmg - macOS Intel:
GenOffice-0.13.18.dmg - Windows x64 (most PCs, Intel/AMD):
GenOfficeSetup-v0.13.18-x64.exe - Linux AppImage:
GenOffice-0.13.18.AppImage - Linux Debian/Ubuntu:
genoffice_0.13.18_amd64.deb - Linux Fedora/RHEL:
genoffice-0.13.18.x86_64.rpm - Windows on Arm only (Snapdragon X and other ARM64 PCs):
GenOfficeSetup-v0.13.18-arm64.exe. Not sure which you have? Check Settings → System → About → "System type"; if it says x64-based processor, use the x64 installer above.
macOS installers are signed with the GenSpark company certificate; Windows installers with DigiCert EV.