LibreOffice Math Guide is Updated to Release 7.5

The LibreOffice Documentation team is happy to announce the new Math Guide 7.5, for the equation editor of the LibreOffice productivity suite. Anyone who wants to learn how to insert formulas and equations using Math will find this 73-page guide valuable. Formulas can be inserted as objects into Writer, Impress, Draw, and Calc documents. Regardless of the document type, formula objects are edited using LibreOffice Math. Thanks to Vitor Ferreira, the new guide has included the changes carried from LibreOffice 7.2 and is now fully updated. He added: I am a college professor of Mechanical Engineering at Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA) in Salvador, Brazil. I use LibreOffice Math since 2019 for my documents and lectures notes, and I together with the Brazilian LibreOffice Community I updated the Math Guide to the latest release.” Said Vitor Ferreira. “The opportunity to volunteer to LibreOffice Documentation was unique and I found it very encouraging in all aspects of document production. The Math Guide 7.5 is available for immediate download in PDF and ODF formats at the Documentation website and the LibreOffice Bookshelf website.

Announcement of LibreOffice 7.4.7 Community

Berlin, May 11, 2023 – The Document Foundation releases LibreOffice 7.4.7 Community, the seventh and last minor release of the LibreOffice 7.4 line, which is approaching the end of life [1]. The new release is immediately available from https://www.libreoffice.org/download/ for Windows (Intel and Arm processors), macOS (Apple and Intel processors), and Linux. LibreOffice offers the highest level of compatibility in the office suite market segment, with native support for the OpenDocument Format (ODF) – beating proprietary formats for security and robustness – to superior support for MS Office files, to filters for a large number of legacy document formats, to return ownership and control to users. LibreOffice Technology Platform Products based on the LibreOffice Technology platform – the transactional engine shared by all LibreOffice based products, which provides a rock solid solution with a high level of coherence and interoperability – are available for major desktop operating systems (Windows, macOS, Linux and Chrome OS), for mobile platforms (Android and iOS), and for the cloud. For enterprise-class deployments, TDF strongly recommends the LibreOffice Enterprise family of applications from ecosystem partners – for desktop, mobile and cloud – with a large number of dedicated value-added features and other benefits such as SLA

Release of LibreOffice 7.4.6 Community

Berlin, March 9, 2023 – The Document Foundation announces the release of LibreOffice 7.4.6 Community, the sixth minor release of the LibreOffice 7.4 family. The new release is immediately available from https://www.libreoffice.org/download/ for Windows (Intel and Arm processors), macOS (Apple and Intel processors), and Linux. LibreOffice offers the highest level of compatibility in the office suite market segment, with native support for the OpenDocument Format (ODF) – beating proprietary formats for security and robustness – to superior support for MS Office files, to filters for a large number of legacy document formats, to return ownership and control to users. LibreOffice Technology Platform Products based on the LibreOffice Technology platform – the transactional engine shared by all LibreOffice based products, which provides a rock solid solution with a high level of coherence and interoperability – are available for major desktop operating systems (Windows, macOS, Linux and Chrome OS), for mobile platforms (Android and iOS), and for the cloud. For enterprise-class deployments, TDF strongly recommends the LibreOffice Enterprise family of applications from ecosystem partners – for desktop, mobile and cloud – with a large number of dedicated value-added features and other benefits such as SLA (Service Level Agreements): https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-in-business/. All code developed

The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 7.5 Community

Berlin, February 2, 2023 – LibreOffice 7.5 Community, the new major release of the volunteer-supported free office suite for desktop productivity, is immediately available for download for Windows (Intel/AMD and ARM processors), macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel processors), and Linux. Most Significant New Features 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”

Welcome Juan José González, TDF’s new Web Technology Engineer!

Here at The Document Foundation, the non-profit entity behind the LibreOffice community, we have many websites and services: this blog, the LibreOffice website, our wiki, the extensions website, Weblate and many more. To improve them and keep them up-to-date, TDF now has a new Web Technology Engineer! So let’s get to know him… Tell us a bit about yourself! My name is Juan José and I am from México. I moved from my beautiful hometown to Guadalajara nearly thirteen years ago looking for a good job as a developer and I fell in love with the city. In Guadalajara I met my wife, my friends and many free software enthusiasts. Since the first day, I realized that there were local communities around free software so I like to keep in contact with them, and contribute with technical talks about various topics. I studied a masters degree in Computer Science, where I got interested in the semantic web and the automated reasoning discipline behind it. I’ve been working as a web developer for more than a decade now. I am so happy that I found this position at The Document Foundation – I am determined to contribute as much as I

The Document Foundation releases LibreOffice 7.4.5 Community

Berlin, January 26, 2023 – The Document Foundation announces the release of LibreOffice 7.4.5 Community, a maintenance release which solves a crash affecting a large number of users. The new release is immediately available from https://www.libreoffice.org/download/ for Windows (Intel and ARM processors), macOS (Apple and Intel processors), and Linux. All LibreOffice users are invited to update their installation to LibreOffice 7.4.5, as the older versions have reached the end of life and are not maintained. LibreOffice offers the highest level of compatibility in the office suite market segment, with native support for the OpenDocument Format (ODF) – beating proprietary formats for security and robustness – to superior support for MS Office files, to filters for a large number of legacy document formats, to return ownership and control to users. LibreOffice Technology Platform Products based on the LibreOffice Technology platform – the transactional engine shared by all LibreOffice based products, which provides a rock solid solution with a high level of coherence and interoperability – are available for major desktop operating systems (Windows, macOS, Linux and Chrome OS), for mobile platforms (Android and iOS), and for the cloud. For enterprise-class deployments, TDF strongly recommends the LibreOffice Enterprise family of applications from