Have you ever tried to draw special and complex shapes beyond the basic offerings of LibreOffice? A custom shape of the Fibonacci spiral defined by its equation and properties with handles to reshape size? Thanks to Regina Henschel, now you have a tutorial for drawing custom shapes of your own and use them in LibreOffice.
Currently, LibreOffice provides a lot of predefined custom shapes. They are grouped to the sets ‘Basic Shapes’, ‘Block Arrows’, ‘Symbol Shapes’, ‘Stars and Banners’, ‘Callouts’, and ‘Flowchart’. And all shapes from the ‘Fontwork Gallery’ are custom shapes too. But you can do more, much more.
Ayhan Yalçinsoy gifted the Turkish community with the long awaited LibreOffice Başlangıç Kılavuzu, easing Turkish users to master LibreOffice. The guide is the translation of the English book Getting Started Guide carried by Ayhan, member of The Document Foundation and Board of Directors deputy.
“I’ve been using LibreOffice since 2010. It makes me happy to support and contribute to this application that I use with pleasure. For this reason, I have been trying to contribute by translating the interface and help text since the day I started using it. I know that every contribution counts in the open source world.” says Ayhan. “I would like to thank Muhammet Kara for what he has done for LibreOffice here. I learned from him how I can contribute to LibreOffice apart from interface translation. I solved some easyhack issue with his support.”
Ayhan continues describing the endeavor: “After all these contributions, we established a certification team. We started the translation work for the LibreOffice Getting Started Guide 6.2 about a year ago, but for some reasons we could not continue. This issue remained in my mind. Finally, with the encouragement of Muhammet Kara and the sponsorship of TUBITAK/ULAKBIM, I completed the translation of Getting Started Guide 7.2. Uploaded to tr.libreoffice.org and documentation.libreoffice.org. I hope it will be useful for the users.”
The work relied on participation of other Turkish community members: “Of course, I did not prepare the images in the Guide. I would also like to thank Murat Özgün for preparing all the visuals, despite his busy schedule.”
Ayhan Yalçinsoy and Muhammet Kara
“I am currently working on the LibreOffice Calc 7.2 Guide. I aim to bring all the guides in order to the community that uses LibreOffice in Turkish. I hope I can make it. It would be very difficult for me to do it all alone. But I think I can find volunteer friends to help. With their support, we can get through this.”
Let’s call the Turkish community to come and help Ayhan’s effort on the LibreOffice Guides set.
The Documentation Team is happy to announce the immediate availability of the Getting Started Guide 7.3, only days after the release of the LibreOffice Community 7.3.
This book is for anyone who wants to get up to speed quickly with LibreOffice 7.3. It introduces Writer (word processing), Calc (spreadsheets), Impress (presentations), Draw (vector drawings), Math (equation editor), and Base (database).
The book is an effort of Kees Kriek, Vasudev Narayanan and Peter Schofield, leaded by Jean Weber and has been updated from Getting Started Guide 7.2. It covers some of the new features that are visible in the user interface, but not all; others are covered in the individual component guides. Portions of this guide have been rewritten for clarity, and some topics not in previous editions have been included.
Peter Schofield and the LibreOffice Documentation Team announcs the immediate availability of the Draw Guide 7.2, the update of the Draw Guide for LibreOffice version 7.2.
Anyone who wants to quickly acquire knowledge about LibreOffice Draw and is new to drawing software, or may be familiar with another office suite, will find this user guide very useful. It introduces the main features of LibreOffice Draw. Although Draw is a vector graphics drawing tool, it can also perform some operations on raster graphics (pixels) such as photographs.
Using Draw, a wide variety of graphical images can be created quickly. Some of the drawing functions are: layer management, snap functions and grid-point system, dimensions and measurement display, connectors for making organization charts, 3D functions that enable small 3D drawings to be created (with texture and lighting effects), drawing and page-style integration, and Bézier curves.
A printed version is available at Lulu Inc, thanks to Jean H. Weber. The Draw Guide completes the LibreOffice 7.2 book collection, and opens the LibreOffice 7.3 shelf for more work and activities.
Thanks to the effort of Jean H. Weber of the LibreOffice Documentation Team, a special edition of the Writer Guide 7.2 for macOS users is now available for download.
“The changes include translating keyboard keys from the Windows/Linux default to their Mac equivalents; replacing Windows/Linux screenshots with Mac equivalents (most screenshots were already taken from macOS); rewording some sections as required (removing Windows or Linux specific instructions). The only major change was about the Print dialog, which is quite different on macOS. I also amended the covers to include the words macOS edition“. Said Jean in her announcement to the documentation list mailing list.
