The Document Foundation, thanks to the widespread popularity of LibreOffice, is recognized as one of the largest FOSS organizations worldwide, and especially in Europe (where the project was born over 20 years ago). Because of this, during the last couple of years TDF has been involved in several discussions about policies which can affect or are affecting the adoption of FOSS, or the freedom of users’ choice for hardware, operating systems and software.…
06 Apr 2023
Microsoft 365 price hike in Germany? LibreOffice to the rescue!
Microsoft plans to raise the prices of its office software in Germany – and other services – significantly (article in German here). And not just once, but every six months there are to be “price adjustments”.
This is of course a problem for many businesses, organisations, schools and local governments that have limited resources.…
04 Apr 2023
LibreOffice project and community recap: March 2023
Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more…
- We started March by announcing the location of the LibreOffice Conference 2023: Bucharest in Romania! It will take place from Wednesday, September 20 (community meetings), to Saturday, September 23. Join us and register here!
31 Mar 2023
German LibreOffice community meeting, March 2023 in Essen
LibreOffice is developed by a worldwide community, and many members of this community live in German-speaking countries. From 24 to 26 March, some of them met at the Linuxhotel in Essen. There was an informal meeting on Friday evening, while the main discussions started on Saturday. The topics included:
- Further development of the Base database module
- LibreOffice community at free software events
- Flyers and donations
- UX improvement possibilities
- Status of the German LibreOffice project
It was a nice meeting, even if some couldn’t be there, and hopefully we’ll see each other again at events like FrOSCon – and of course the LibreOffice Conference in Bucharest in September!…
30 Mar 2023
LibreOffice 7.5.2 Community available for download
Berlin, March 30, 2023 – LibreOffice 7.5.2 Community, the second minor release of the LibreOffice 7.5 line, the volunteer-supported free office suite for desktop productivity, is available from from our download page for Windows (Intel/AMD and ARM processors), macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel processors), and Linux.
Most Significant New Features of the LibreOffice 7.5 Family
GENERAL
- Major improvements to dark mode support
- New application and MIME-type icons, more colorful and vibrant
- The Start Centre can filter documents by type
- An improved version of the Single Toolbar UI has been implemented
- PDF Export improved with several fixes, and new options and features
- Support for font embedding on macOS
- Improvements to the Font Features dialog with several new options
- Addition of a zoom slider at the bottom right of the macro editor
WRITER
- Bookmarks have been significantly improved, and are also much more visible
- Objects can be marked as decorative, for better accessibility
- New types added to content controls, which also improve the quality of PDF forms
- A new automatic accessibility checker option has been added to the Tools menu
- Initial machine translation is available, based on DeepL translate APIs
- Several spell checking improvements
CALC
- Data tables are now supported in charts
- The Function Wizard now lets you search by descriptions
- “Spell out” number formats have been added
- Conditional formatting conditions are now case insensitive
- Correct behavior when entering numbers with a single prefix quote (‘)
IMPRESS & DRAW
- New set of default table styles, and creation of table styles
- Table styles can be customized, saved as master elements and exported
- Objects can be drag-and-dropped in the navigator
- It is now possible to crop inserted videos in the slide and still play them
- The presenter console can also run as a normal window instead of fullscreen
A description of all new features in the LibreOffice 7.5 family is available in the Release Notes.…
25 Mar 2023
LibreOffice Czech User Guides are now in the Bookshelf
The Czech Community is happy to announce the immediate availability of the Czech LibreOffice User Guides in the LibreOffice Bookshelf.
Thanks to the efforts of Zdeněk Crhonek and Stanislav Horáček, the bookshelf has now all recent user guides in Czech, available in PDF, OpenDocument (LibreOffice’s native file format) and HTML for online reading in the browser.…