In 2022, the marketing team continued the deployment of the Strategic Marketing Plan, without overlooking ongoing activities to promote LibreOffice and support the efforts of native language communities
(This is part of The Document Foundation’s Annual Report for 2022 – we’ll post the full version here soon.)
LibreOffice Strategic Marketing Plan
We have invested in the deployment of the Strategic Marketing Plan, with additional activities such as the release of generic presentations about The Document Foundation (History, and Digital Sovereignty), LibreOffice (Technology, also with comments, and Sustainability) and Open Document Format (Generic, ODF and Interoperability, and OOXML Issues), to be used by community members.…
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.…
In 2022 we had with elections for the foundation’s Membership Committee, along with regular Advisory Board calls, and support for other projects and activities
(This is part of The Document Foundation’s Annual Report for 2022 – we’ll post the full version here soon.)
Election of new Membership Committee
The mission of the Membership Committee (MC) is to administer membership applications and renewals following the criteria defined in The Document Foundation’s Foundation’s Statutes.…
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.…
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.…
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” 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 video summarizing the top new features in LibreOffice 7.5 Community is available on YouTube and PeerTube.…
