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LibreOffice: Advent Tip #3

LibreOffice Impress allows to create a nice Photo Album with a few clicks of the mouse. First, you open an empty presentation. Second, you access the feature with Insert > Media > Photo Album. Third, you press the Add button to select your pictures from your hard disk. Fourth, you choose your options (slide layout,

LibreOffice: Advent Tip #2

Save Impress Slides as Images

LibreOffice allows to export single Impress slides as images, by accessing the menu File > Export…, and then by choosing one of the available file formats. Using this feature, exporting all the slides of an Impress presentation is a rather tedious operation.

Luckily, there is a LibreOffice extension which allows to export

LibreOffice: Advent Tip #1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We are approaching the end of 2015. We have decided to celebrate the month of December with our own version of the Advent Calendar: one simple tip per day, to make the use of LibreOffice more enjoyable or more productive.

Today, December 1, we start by pointing LibreOffice users to Ask LibreOffice and to the

Community, as seen from the sky

drone5During the Aarhus Conference, we have organized the usual group picture to celebrate the community, leveraging the architectural features of the DOKK1.

We have gathered on one of the large staircases leading to the first

Behind the scenes at TDF: Jan Iversen, mentoring development lead

janiversensmallI started working for Document Foundation in November. I live and work in southern Spain, Malaga, a nice warm place. I wrote my first program in 1975, so I have been active in the pre-unix, pre-linux,

LibreOffice getting ready for the next 1,000 hackers

janiversensmallBerlin, November 23, 2015 – The Document Foundation announces a renewed effort to grow the developers community beyond the threshold of 1,000 hackers reached in October 2015 (source: OpenHub), with the addition of Jan Iversen –