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Czech translation of LibreOffice Impress Guide 7.5

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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!

The Czech translation of the Impress Guide 7.5 is available for download on this page. We haven’t yet decided what we will translate next – probably we will wait for the next big release (LibreOffice 24.2), but if any volunteers would like to join us in the meantime, please visit this page.

Great work everyone!

Announcing the ODF Toolkit 0.12.0 release

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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. And at the end of last month, the developers announced a new version: 0.12.0!

Big changes include a new ODF 1.3 mimetype “Text master template”, while the API for Text Selection was completely refactored. In addition, there were many fixes to improve reliability and security.

Check out the full announcement and link to the release notes here

LibreOffice Help files have now a much better content editor

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.

The Help editor renders the page in a way to assist the content editor in dealing with the several specific XML tags used in the Help pages. It displays the resulting page with information on links, embeds and other information, including switches that changes contents based on the system and the application.

The editor is also capable to perform checking, notably XML conformity, DTD compliance and best of all, paragraph’s ID uniqueness, which is the most common mistake in writing Help pages.


Content editors can access the editor at the address here, and source code for the Help editor is available for download and improvements on this page.

LibreOffice project and community recap: December 2023

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

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  • We had two updates for the software in December:
    LibreOffice 7.6.4 and 7.5.9    . All users are recommended to download and install the latest releases.

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  • Meanwhile, we prepared a Security Backgrounder document that describes – in language accessible to everyone, including non-security specialists – the impressive work done by developers and quality assurance specialists in the area of LibreOffice security.
  • The second of our community interviews was with Dominique Prieur, who gives courses on LibreOffice and is working with the Orléans prison in France to develop office automation workshops.

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  • And finally, on the last day of the year, we said thanks to the whole LibreOffice community for all the support and contributions throughout 2023. We look forward to making 2024 another great year for our projects and community!

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