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3D Objects: Making a Globe with LibreOffice

2021-05-052021-05-05

Regina Henschel shows you how to do some nifty 3D tricks in LibreOffice…

First, you need a world map in “Miller projection”. You find a suitable one on Wikipedia – download the full-size version. Here’s a thumbnail of it (CC-BY-SA, Daniel R. Strebe, August 2011):

Next, start LibreOffice Draw, and create a sphere from the “3D-Objects” toolbar.…

Annual Report: LibreOffice Conference 2020

2021-05-04

The LibreOffice Conference is the annual gathering of the community, our end-users, developers, and everyone interested in free office software. Last year, it took place online – and was co-organised with the openSUSE project

(This is part of The Document Foundation’s Annual Report for 2020 – the full version will be posted here on the blog soon.)…

LibreOffice monthly recap: April 2021

2021-05-032021-05-03

Check out our summary of what happened in the LibreOffice community last month…

We started off by releasing LibreOffice 7.1.2, an update with over 60 bug fixes and improvements to document compatibility.

Meanwhile, the Council of the German city of Dortmund announced that it’s moving to free and open source software, where possible. This is great news: in the future, the city administration will have to justify why open source software cannot be used for every proprietary software application.

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Starting today: the Month of LibreOffice, May 2021!

2021-05-012021-05-01

If you’ve been using LibreOffice for a while, you may be wondering: who makes it? Well, the answer is: people like you! LibreOffice is a worldwide, community open source project – and many people who help to improve it, actually started out as regular users of the software.

So in May, we want to encourage you to get involved, join our community, and have fun.…