03 May 2022
LibreOffice project and community recap: April 2022
Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more…
- Throughout the month, we posted sections from our Annual Report 2021, covering activities at The Document Foundation and in the LibreOffice project. First was LibreOffice in 2021, followed by TDF, our yearly conference, and documentation community activities. Stay tuned for more sections – and the full report!
- How do different free and open source software projects do mentorship, and how can we all learn from each other? Daniel Garcia Moreno (EndlessOS Foundation and GNOME), Emily Gonyer (openSUSE), Ilmari Lauhakangas (The Document Foundation), and Marie Nordin (Fedora) discuss this in a panel moderated by Ben Cotton:
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- Later in April, we republished an open letter covering the “Right to Install any Software on any Device”. Find out more about it here.
- Lastly, we announced that the Latin-American LibreOffice Conference 2022 will take place in Brasília on August 25 and 26. The event will be held at the Catholic University of Brasília, in the Taquaritinga – DF.
I have trouble when converting my docs to external docs for people like my doctor to read. Better conversions to Word and other establishment software would be good for me.
Hi, the community is always working on compatibility improvements – but if you’re having troubles with a particular document, you can submit it as part of a bug report: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org
Or even better, ask your doctor to use OpenDocument Format, so that everyone can share information freely, and his or her patients aren’t locked in to Microsoft’s formats!
I don’t expect LibreOffice to match every feature and fucntionality of the industry leader. All the more as LO’s workflow is more orderly and logical than the messy wysiwyg-focused philosophy of the competition.
What I do expect is 100% fidelity opening and saving .docx, .pptx and .xslx formats. Those formats are proprietary, but their specifications are published. This should have been solved conclusively years ago.
Open-source enthusiast Dedoimedo reviewed LO 7.3.3 last month. According to him, it’s going backwards: “Where LibreOffice 7.2 did an okay job, LibreOffice 7.3 does worse.”
https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/libreoffice-7-3-review.html
Hi, this is not really true. Most users still save .docx, .xlsx files etc. in the “transitional” format, which contains undocumented “blobs” of data that are extremely hard for other tools to process. So it’s not true to simply say the “specifications are published” – it’s much more complicated than that! More about this here: https://fsfe.org/activities/msooxml/msooxml.en.html