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Celebrating Document Freedom Day 2024!

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Today is Document Freedom Day, which raises awareness of how open standards and open document formats provide us with the freedom to read and write as we wish:

Remember when you were sent an important file that your computer couldn’t read properly? Remember having to buy or download

Announcing the ODF Toolkit 0.12.0 release

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ODF is the Open Document Format, the native format used by LibreOffice (and supported by many other apps too). It has various sub-formats such as .odt for text files, .ods for spreadsheets, and .odp for presentations.

Meanwhile, the ODF Toolkit is a set of Java modules that

More info about LibreOffice Viewer app for Android in the Google Play Store

LibreOffice Viewer for AndroidWith the release of LibreOffice 7.6.3, the LibreOffice Viewer app for Android has been made available in the Google Play Store.

LibreOffice Viewer is a lightweight version of LibreOffice for Android smartphones and tablets for viewing Open Document Format (.odt, .ods, .odp) and Microsoft

Video: Meet LibreOffice’s Engineering Steering Committee

How are technical decisions made in the LibreOffice project? And who makes them? Watch this video with our Engineering Steering Committee from the recent recent LibreOffice Conference 2023 in Bucharest, to find out. (PeerTube version here.)

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LibreOffice and Google Summer of Code 2023: The results

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This year, LibreOffice was once again a mentoring organization in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC), a global program focused on bringing more developers into free and open source software development. Five projects were finished successfully. Contributors and mentors enjoyed the time, and here we

Projects selected for LibreOffice in the Google Summer of Code 2023

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The LibreOffice Google Summer of Code projects have been selected for 2023.

  • Ahmed Gamal Eltokhy – Improve PGP/GPG encryption support: the project aims to enhance the experimental PGP/GPG encryption support in LibreOffice by addressing several shortcomings, such as the need to select recipients anew for every save and the difficulty