OnlyOffice Desktop Editors Released 9.0 with .VSDX, .MD, .ODG & .XLSB Support

OnlyOffice, the popular free open-source office suite, released new 9.0 version for its offline use desktop editors hours ago.

The new release introduced 2 new themes Modern Light and Modern Dark with redesigned UI elements and icons, as well as redesigned start window with focus on simplicity.

It also added brand-new Diagram Viewer allows to open and view Microsoft Visio diagrams (.vsdx), and add new file formats support, including Markdown files (.md), OpenDocument Graphic files (.odg) created by OpenOffice / LibreOffice Draw, as well as Microsoft Excel Binary Workbook file (.xlsb).

The PDF Editor in the release now supports drag’n’drop re-arranging pages, and Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V shortcut keys to copy and paste PDF pages between different files.

Spreadsheet now has RLT support, RTL and LTR text direction change. And, document gains improved usability for RTL text and enhanced paragraphs with the main RTL direction.

The Desktop Editor 9.0 also enhanced AI support. It now supports extracting text from scanned PDF files using the OCR feature, applying smart formulas and run complex data analysis in spreadsheets, as well as creating new macros based on your prompts and converting VBA macros with a few clicks.

According to the release note, the release also added ability to enable or disable Spelling language detection in Settings, though the option is already available in my case in v8.3.3.

Other change include:

Asynchronous calculations in spreadsheets.
Print without using system dialog.
Add file association dialog in Windows .exe installer.

How to Install OnlyOffice Desktop Editor 9.0

OnlyOffice provides official installers for Linux, Windows, and macOS, which are available to download via the link below:

Download OnlyOffice Desktop Editors

Linux users may choose to download & install native DEB for Debian/Ubuntu, native RPM for Fedora/RHEL, or Flatpak runs in sandbox environment, AppImage/b<> that runs without installation required.

While Ubuntu users may open App Center (or Ubuntu Software for 22.04 and earlier) to search & install the Snap package, though it’s not ready at the moment of writing.