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.…
Category: Technology
Videos from FOSDEM ’22 – LibreOffice Technology devroom – now available
FOSDEM is a non-commercial, volunteer-organized European event centered on free and open-source software development – and one of the biggest such events of its kind. This year, it took place online again, due to the pandemic.
Many LibreOffice community volunteers and certified developers gave talks at the conference, and now the videos are available for all to see!…
FOSDEM 2022 – News from the ODF Toolkit (with Notes) by Svante Schubert
You can access and download Svante Schubert’s slides about “News from the ODF Toolkit” which was supposed to be features during FOSDEM 2022 but for some reason didn’t work out.
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OpenOffice users: Getting messages about documents being made in a newer version?
Many OpenOffice users are seeing warnings when trying to access files in the OpenDocument Format (eg .odt, .ods). The full text is:
This document was created by a newer version of OpenOffice. It may contain features not supported by your current version.
In this case, the document was probably made in LibreOffice, which supports newer versions of the OpenDocument Format.…
LibreOffice at FOSDEM 2022 – February 5-6
FOSDEM is a non-commercial, volunteer-organized European event centered on free and open-source software development – and one of the biggest such events of its kind. Normally it takes place in Brussels, but due to the pandemic, it’ll be online this year.
And the LibreOffice community will be there! We’ll have 25 talks about the technology behind the suite, open standards, and other topics.…
Two ODF Toolkit releases in a row!
ODF is the Open Document Format, the native format used by LibreOffice (and supported by many other apps too). Then there’s the ODF Toolkit, a set of Java modules that allow programmatic creation, scanning and manipulation of ODF files. Svante Schubert writes with some updates:
We are happy to announce that there have been recently two ODF Toolkit releases in a row.…