The LibreOffice Conference 2019 begins! Before the main talks start tomorrow, we’re having a community meeting to talk about translating LibreOffice and spreading the word. If you’re near Almeria, Spain, come and join us…
06 Sep 2019
LibreOffice has a new Macro Team
Power users often implement macros in their documents, and LibreOffice’s volunteer contributors are typically power users, so it makes sense to ensure the tools they need are in excellent shape. We are excited to announce the creation of a dedicated team for macro improvements in the LibreOffice contributor community.
The team composition is currently as follows:
- Andreas Heinisch, a new contributor who has improved the user interface of macro editing
- Tomoyuki Kubota, a contributor for 1.5 years who has done bug and build system fixes and code cleanups
- Luane, a new contributor who is improving the documentation related to macros and extension development as well as analysing macro-related bug reports
- Alain Romedenne, a veteran documenter of macro matters
To make sure the macro team can work efficiently, the LibreOffice quality assurance team has cleaned up the collection of macro issues.…
05 Sep 2019
LibreOffice 6.3.1 and LibreOffice 6.2.7 announced, focusing on security
Berlin, September 5, 2019 – The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 6.3.1, the first minor release of the LibreOffice 6.3 family, and LibreOffice 6.2.7, the seventh minor release of the LibreOffice 6.2 family, with many bug fixes and a key security improvement.
LibreOffice 6.3.1 and LibreOffice 6.2.7 consider the presence of any call to a script-like thing as equally hazardous as a macro, and present the user a warning dialog about the document trying to execute a script.…
04 Sep 2019
LibreOffice developers team up to improve PPT/PPTX (PowerPoint) file support
Good news for all users of high quality presentation software: a dedicated team has been formed within the LibreOffice community with the aim of further improving PPT/PPTX (PowerPoint) file format support. The initial developer members are:
- Bartosz Kosiorek, known for his numerous improvements to Windows Metafile support
- nd101, a new contributor with a passion for PPT/PPTX support
- Mark Hung, invited due to his experience in fixing many PPT/PPTX and Impress issues
Team members will be able to support each other through code reviews and advice.…
02 Sep 2019
Community Member Monday: Emmanuel Semutenga
Today we’re talking to Emmanuel Semutenga, who helps young people in Uganda to develop key IT skills. Of course, LibreOffice plays a role in this…
To start with, tell us a bit about yourself!
I’m currently a back-end web developer by profession. I’m also a Project Manager for the project entitled “ICT for youth employability” at Kampabits, where my main work is on curriculum development.…
31 Aug 2019
TDF Annual Report 2018
The Annual Report of The Document Foundation for the year 2018 is now available in PDF format from TDF Nextcloud in two different versions: low resolution (6.4MB) and high resolution (53.2MB). The annual report is based on the German version presented to the authorities in April.
The 52 page document has been entirely created with free open source software: written contents have obviously been developed with LibreOffice Writer (desktop) and collaboratively modified with LibreOffice Writer (online), charts have been created with LibreOffice Calc and prepared for publishing with LibreOffice Draw, drawings and tables have been developed or modified (from legacy PDF originals) with LibreOffice Draw, images have been prepared for publishing with GIMP, and the layout has been created with Scribus based on the existing templates.…