Recently, The Document Foundation – the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice – teamed up with the California State University, Monterey Bay (CSUMB) to encourage students to learn about LibreOffice quality assurance (QA) and help out. Let’s hear from one of the students, Keldin Maldonado:
I worked in the QA team for LibreOffice.…
Zdeněk Crhonek (aka “raal”) from the Czech LibreOffice community writes:
…The Czech team has finished its translation of the LibreOffice Impress Guide 7.5. As usual it was a team effort, with translations by Petr Kuběj, Zdeněk Crhonek and Radomír Strnad. Localized pictures were provided by Roman Toman, and technical support came from Miloš Šrámek. Thanks to all the team for their work!
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 allow programmatic creation, scanning and manipulation of ODF files.…
The LibreOffice Help documentation project members have now a much better Help editor, thanks to Juan José Gonzales (JJ) of the TDF team.
Based on the editor originally created by Olivier Hallot and Mike Saunders, the new editor was greatly improved by JJ fixing many usability issues, adding a handy toolbar to the editor and automating some tasks for rendering the help page.…
Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more…
