The Document Foundation has launched the foundation and the LibreOffice LinkedIn pages a while ago, followed in late 2020 by the LibreOffice Enterprise LinkedIn page. These resources have never been promoted in a serious and continuous way, so they have grown organically during the years to reach respectively 1,112, 949 and 171 followers. Given the growing importance of LinkedIn as a source of information, it is now time to leverage the effective potential of these content resources for the growth of the project, especially in areas which are tangent to the FOSS ecosystem.…
14 May 2021
LinkedIn Pages, an invitation to subscribe
13 May 2021
Brazilians in turbo mode: Impress Guide 7.0 in Portuguese is now available
The Brazilian LibreOffice community is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the Portuguese Impress 7.0 Guide, the complete guidebook for creating high quality presentations in any environment, be it family, cultural or professional.
The book is 330 pages, and details the fundamentals of Impress, before covering the concepts of slide masters, styles, presentation templates, graphic objects, transition effects, object animations, export to other formats and much more.…
13 May 2021
LibreOffice 7.0.6 has been released
Berlin, May 13, 2021 – LibreOffice 7.0.6, the sixth minor release of the LibreOffice 7.0 family, is available from https://www.libreoffice.org/download/. All users are invited to update to this version.
End user support is provided by volunteers via email and online resources: https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/community-support/. On the website and the wiki there are guides, manuals, tutorials and HowTos.…
11 May 2021
LibreOffice Native Language Projects in 2020
By helping to translate and market LibreOffice around the world, native language projects bring enthusiasm and passion to the global community. Here’s what they did in 2020…
(This is part of The Document Foundation’s Annual Report for 2020 – the full version will be posted here on the blog soon.)
Central Kurdish
Support for the Central Kurdish language was added to LibreOffice in 2021, and Jwtiyar Ali helped to drive the translation of the suite’s user interface.…
10 May 2021
Community Member Monday: Dante Doménech
(This image shows some LibreOffice community members from our map. If you’re not there, or want to get your location on the map, let us know!)
Today we’re talking to Dante Doménech, who’s helping to improve LibreOffice Math…
Hi Dante – tell us a bit about yourself!
I’m from Spain – the biggest city in the area is Valencia.…
08 May 2021
Improvements in LibreOffice’s PowerPoint presentation support
LibreOffice’s native file format is OpenDocument, a fully open and standardised format that’s great for sharing documents and long-term data storage. Of course, LibreOffice does its best to open files made by other office software as well, even if they’re stored in pseudo-“standards” with cryptic and obfuscated contents. Compatibility with PowerPoint PPT(X) presentations is therefore a challenge, but developers are working hard on improvements…
In September 2019, we announced an initiative to improve the support of PPT and PPTX files in LibreOffice.…