Berlin, December 10, 2015 – The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 4.4.7, the seventh and final minor release of the LibreOffice 4.4 family, with a few key fixes over the previous version. LibreOffice 4.4.7 is the “still” version targeted to more conservative users and enterprise deployments.
The Document Foundation suggests to deploy LibreOffice in enterprises and large organizations with the backing of professional support by certified people (a list is available at: http://www.documentfoundation.org/certification/…
Libreoffice offers a number of different icon sets, which can be selected from the menu Tools > Options > LibreOffice > View. The default Linux icon set is called Human, while the default Windows icon set is called Tango.
Together with Galaxy and Oxygen, they have been the available options for quite a long time (although there have been several improvements to the design of the icons).…
Hybrid PDFs are a peculiar feature of LibreOffice, and are extremely handy for interoperability. They are standard PDF files, which embed a standard ODF document.
Because of this characteristic, although they have a PDF extension they can be opened by LibreOffice as fully editable documents (please note that they cannot be opened with a double click on the icon, as any regular ODF document, but they must be opened from within LibreOffice by using the menu File > Open).…
The Document Foundation (TDF), the charitable entity behind the world’s leading free office suite LibreOffice, seeks a
User Experience Mentor
to start work as soon as possible.
We are looking forward to integrate user experience deeper into our development processes. The role, which is scheduled for 20 hours a week, may include any of:
Main goals
- acting as a peer of other UX volunteers
- working with developers to find out what is technically possible and makes sense
- growing the UX/design contributions and contributor base via outreach, and searching for good contributions in various forms (mailing lists, g+, irc, blog)
- research in bugzilla, searching for consensus for ux-advice bugs
Main tasks
- mentoring new contributors in the user experience community, to introduce them the existing workflows
- volunteer inclusion: both UX/design, and also developers interested in hacking user interface
- growing the contributor base and doing community outreach
- organizing remote UX meetings (via phone, video conference or IRC) and in-person
- establishing and fostering coordination and communication between developers, the user experience team, marketing and design, acting as a gateway between these
Other tasks
- conducting surveys to improve the LibreOffice user experience and presenting results to the community
- working on improving existing LibreOffice Glade-based dialogues and drafting/developing new ones
- working with others on concepts, designs, strategies to evolve the LibreOffice user interface, drafting new user interface elements
- prototyping
- identification of EasyHacks to lower the entry barrier to the UX community
- triaging ux-advice bugs in bugzilla
Tasks have to be carried out in joint cooperation with our existing developer, marketing and UX/design community, and with our Development Mentoring Lead.…
LibreOffice Writer was born – as StarWriter – to produce lengthy documents, such as thesis and relations, and as such offers a number of specific features in this area. Two of the most important are Templates and Styles, which facilitate the creation of good looking documents, and make it easier to reproduce a standard document once the layout – including Styles – has been defined and consolidated.…
LibreOffice offers an AutoText feature which can be accessed from the menu Edit > AutoText, which opens a simple dialog windows. The example shown in the image on the left is the well known Lorem Ipsum pseudo Latin blurb, which can be used to mimic a document layout, but the feature offers a number of pre-defined standard strings (for instance: 1st Reminder, 2nd Reminder, etcetera), plus several Business Cards layouts, plus a number of template elements (for instance: Header Brochure, Header Newsletter, etcetera).…
Berlin, December 10, 2015 – The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 4.4.7, the seventh and final minor release of the LibreOffice 4.4 family, with a few key fixes over the previous version. LibreOffice 4.4.7 is the “still” version targeted to more conservative users and enterprise deployments.
