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Behind the scenes at TDF: Release Engineering

cloph_headLibreOffice proper

The year 2015 started off with LibreOffice 4.4.0 and 4.3.6 rc1 – only the first of a whopping 42 (of course!)

LibreOffice: Advent Tip #23

zoom

LibreOffice provides a Zoom & View Layout dialog which makes it easier to set the size of the document inside the software window. The feature can be accessed either with the menu View > Zoom > Zoom… or by double clicking on the zooming percentage

Behind the scenes at TDF: LibreOffice QA (Halloween Bug Hunting)

robinson-in-brusselsLibreOffice QA has been busy during the last few months!

We had our 

LibreOffice: Advent Tip #22

form

LibreOffice has several hidden gems, ignored by the majority of the users. One of these gems is the creation of editable PDF forms, which is a rather comprehensive feature and not a simple tip (but after 20 days, even the most basic user is

Behind the scenes at TDF: NLP/L10n

_SDS5526LibOCon in Aarhus, Denmark, has been a really nice meeting especially for the L10n/NLP communities with a large workshop on the day before the opening of the conference. Even the whole afternoon

LibreOffice: Advent Tip #21

Extensions — LibreOffice ExtensionsLibreOffice offers a large number of dictionaries for spell checking documents and presentations. They are available from the Extensions website, and can be searched by using one