LibreOffice project and community recap: April 2024

InstallFest 2024 Prague

Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks ā€“ click the links to learn more…

Calc Guide and Writer Guides available for browsing

LibreOffice Guides in HTML

The Documentation team just published the Calc Guide and Writer Guide as on-line pages in the Bookshelf at https://books.libreoffice.org

Presented as web pages, the guides contents can now be accessed with your favorite browser and use the browser resources to navigate, bookmark and reference pages.

Together with the PDF versions, the guides web pages can be downloaded and installed in local networks using a simple web server.…

Community Member Monday: Kira Tubo

Kira Tubo

Tell us a bit about yourself!

I live in San Jose, California, USA. I’ve lived around the Bay Area my whole life, after my parents moved away from the Philippines when I was about a year old.

I have had experience as a CRM (customer relations management) administrator, which partially functioned sort of like an internal tech support position, and I’ve also done crowdsourced testing and a11y (accessibility) testing as a side hustle.…

Quick tip: creating “hybrid” PDF files in LibreOffice

Screenshot of PDF export dialog

Here’s a LibreOffice feature you may not know about: when exporting a PDF, the “Hybrid PDF” option embeds the original file. Then anyone with a PDF reader can view the file ā€“ and LibreOffice users can edit it too.

Learn more about this feature here

Insights from the InstallFest 2024 conference in Prague

InstallFest 2024

Our Czech community reports back from a recent event…

For the third time, the LibreOffice project had its own booth at InstallFest 2024, and here we present our experiences from the event.

On the weekend of 16th and 17th March 2024, the InstallFest 2024 conference took place at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague.…

Community Member Monday: Adam Seskunas

Adam Seskunas

Tell us a bit about yourself!

My name is Adam Seskunas and I currently live in San Diego, California. In my free time I enjoy outdoor activities, hiking, backpacking in the Sierra, rock climbing and surfing with my daughter Sofia. I have a degree in Computer Science from the University of Maryland Global Campus, and Iā€™m an open source software enthusiast.…