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[Chachazz]

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LibreOffice is the free, power-packed, Open Source, personal productivity suite for Windows, Macintosh and Linux, that gives you six feature-rich applications for all your document production and data processing needs: Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Math and Base. Support and documentation is free from our large, dedicated community of users, contributors and developers.

LibreOffice is a feature-packed and mature desktop productivity package with some really great advantages:

• It's free ? no worry about license costs.
• No language barriers ? it's available in a large number of languages, with more being added continually.
• LGPL public license ? you can use it, customize it, hack it and copy it with free user support and developer support from our active worldwide community and our large and experienced developer team.
• LibreOffice is an Open Source community-driven project: development is open to new talent and new ideas, and our software is tested and used daily by a large and devoted user community; you, too, can get involved and influence its future development.

LibreOffice gives you high quality:

• The roots of LibreOffice go back 20 years. This long history means it's a stable and functional product.
• Thousands of users worldwide regularly take part in beta testing of new LibreOffice versions.
• Because the development process is completely open, LibreOffice has been extensively tested by security experts, giving you security and peace of mind.

LibreOffice is user-friendly:

• You get a simple-to-use yet powerful interface that is easy to personalize ? Microsoft Office users will find the switch easy and painless, with a familiar look and feel.
• Compatible with all major competitors' file formats. You can easily import files from Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint and many other formats, and can easily save to Microsoft Office and other formats when needed.
• LibreOffice is supported by a big worldwide community: volunteers help newcomers, and advanced users and developers can collaborate with you to find solutions to complex issues.

Website: LibreOffice

User support forums are available:
http://en.libreofficeforum.org/

[Chachazz]

German LibreOffice-Box available
The free office suite plus extras on DVD
2011-02-06

The German LibreOffice Community today announced the availability of its LibreOffice-Box, a compilation of LibreOffice with extensions, cliparts, galleries, fonts and additional programs on DVD.

For the download and more informaton refer to http://web.libreofficebox.org/.
International versions of the image are planned.

Here is an overview of the various contents of the DVD libre office, which is designed with a graphical interface like a Web page to simplify the navigation. The current version is available at devel.libreofficebox.org. Current versions of extras at http://web.libreoffi...d-neue-inhalte/

On Windows, the DVD starts automatically (if autorun is enabled) and the built-in browser opens the page of the surface. All Windows programs can now easily install on the menu.

In other operating systems, open your file manager on the index.html file in the / html of the DVD by double kick in your default browser.

Office Suite

• LibreOffice.org for Linux, Mac and Windows
• Language
• Java Runtime Environment (JRE)

Extensions

• Anaphraseus
• Calc2Latex
• Mottco
• Pagination
• and much more

Templates

• Templates for different purposes
• Examples of complex applications

Artwork

• Clip Arts
• Icons
• Logos
• Cover and Label

Additional programs

• Mozilla Firefox
• Mozilla SeaMonkey
• Mozilla Thunderbird
• Inkscape (vector graphics)
• 7-Zip
• Ghostscript
• free mind (mind map)
• Others

Development

• libre office source code (Source)
• libre office software development kit (SDK)
• X-Ray Tool
• Basic Addon Builder
• Object Inspector

Contacts & Licenses

• Imprint
• Licenses

[Chachazz]

LibreOffice API documentation is now online
September 7, 2011 by Florian Effenberger @ 10:50

As a result of the LibreOffice Hackfest 2011 in Munich, the LibreOffice API documentation is now online at http://api.libreoffice.org

[Chachazz]

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Florian Effenberger - October 28, 2011
The Document Foundation is proud to announce that today, the LibreOffice Extensions and Templates repository has been put online at extensions.libreoffice.org and templates.libreoffice.org

[Chachazz]

The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 4.0
The free office suite the community has been dreaming of for twelve years
February 7, 2013 - italovignoli @ 10:09

 

The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 4.0, the free office suite the community has been dreaming of since 2001.

LibreOffice 4.0 is the first release that reflects the objectives set by the community at the time of the announcement, in September 2010: a cleaner and leaner code base, an improved set of features, better interoperability, and a more diverse and inclusive ecosystem.

LibreOffice 4.0: a community on fire
In less than 30 months, LibreOffice has grown dramatically to become the largest independent free software project focused on end user desktop productivity. TDF inclusive governance and the copyleft license have been instrumental in attracting more than 500 developers – three quarters of them being independent volunteers – capable of contributing over 50,000 commits.

The resulting code base is rather different from the original one, as several million lines of code have been added and removed, by adding new features, solving bugs and regressions, adopting state of the art C++ constructs, replacing tools, getting rid of deprecated methods and obsoleted libraries, and translating twenty five thousand lines of comments from German to English. All of this makes the code easier to understand and more rewarding to be involved with for the stream of new members of our community.

“LibreOffice 4.0 is a milestone in interoperability and an excellent foundation for our continued work to improve the User Interface,” explains Florian Effenberger, Chairman of the Board of Directors. “Our project is not only capable of attracting new developers on a regular basis, but it also creates a transparent platform for cooperation based on a strong Free Software ethos, where corporate sponsored and volunteer developers work to attain the same objective.”

LibreOffice 4.0: the new features
LibreOffice 4.0 offers a large number of new characteristics, which are listed on this page: »www.libreoffice.org/download/4-0···nd-fixes.

• Integration with several content and document management systems – including Alfresco, IBM FileNet P8, Microsoft Sharepoint 2010, Nuxeo, OpenText, SAP NetWeaver Cloud Service and others – through the CMIS standard.
• Better interoperability with DOCX and RTF documents, thanks to several new features and improvements like the possibility of importing ink annotations and attaching comments to text ranges.
• Possibility to import Microsoft Publisher documents, and further improvement of Visio import filters with the addition of 2013 version (just announced).
• Additional UI incremental improvements, including Unity integration and support of Firefox Themes (Personas) to give LibreOffice a personalized look.
• Introduction of the widget layout technique for dialog windows, which makes it easier to translate, resize and hide UI elements, reduces code complexity, and lays a foundation for a much improved user interface.
• Different header and footer on the first page of a Writer document, without the need of a separate page style.
• Several performance improvements to Calc, plus new features such as export of charts as images (JPG and PNG) and new spreadsheet functions as defined in ODF OpenFormula.
• First release of Impress Remote Control App for Android, supported only on some Linux distributions. (The second release, coming soon, will be supported on all platforms: Windows, MacOS X and all Linux distros and binaries.)
• Significant performance improvements when loading and saving many types of documents, with particular improvements for large ODS and XLSX spreadsheets and RTF files.
• Improved code contribution thanks to Gerrit: a web based code review system, facilitating the task for projects using Git version control system (although this is not specific of LibreOffice 4.0, it has entered the production stage just before the 4.0 branch).

LibreOffice 4.0: under the hood
There are a number of fixes and improvements primarily of interest to developers: »wiki.documentfoundation.org/Rele···_Changes.

Overall excellent backwards compatibility is retained for legacy extensions, but moving forward TDF is committed to a more pro-active approach to evolving the UNO APIs, with more functionality to be deprecated, and eventually dropped, in due time – according to the six month release cycle – throughout the LibreOffice 4.x release series.

During the last seven months, since the branch of LibreOffice 3.6 and during the entire development cycle of LibreOffice 4.0, developers have made over 10,000 commits. On average, one commit every 30 minutes, including weekends and the holiday season: a further testimonial of the incredible vitality of the project.

How to get LibreOffice 4.0
LibreOffice 4.0 is immediately available for download from the following link: »www.libreoffice.org/download/.
Extensions for LibreOffice are available from the following link: »extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center.

Changelogs are available at »wiki.documentfoundation.org/Rele···.0.0/RC1 (solved in 4.0.0.1), »wiki.documentfoundation.org/Rele···.0.0/RC2 (solved in 4.0.0.2) and »wiki.documentfoundation.org/Rele···.0.0/RC3 (solved in 4.0.0.3).

Support The Document Foundation
LibreOffice users, free software advocates and community members can support The Document Foundation with a donation at »donate.libreoffice.org. Money collected will be used to grow the infrastructure, and support marketing activities to increase the awareness of the project, both at global and local level.

[Terryala]

LibreOffice 4.0.1 Final 

 

This is the second release from the 4.0 branch of LibreOffice.
It contains many exciting new features, and is suitable for early corporate adopters and private users.

The following notes apply:
This release is bit-for-bit identical to the 4.0.1 Release Candidate 2, so you don't need to download or reinstall if you have that version already.
The distribution for Windows is an international build, so you can choose the user interface language that you prefer. Help content is available via an online service, or alternatively as a separate install.
Our Windows binaries are digitally signed by The Document Foundation.
For Windows users that have OpenOffice.org installed, we advise uninstalling that beforehand, because it registers the same file type associations.
If you run Linux, the GCJ Java variant has known issues with LibreOffice, we advise to e.g. use OpenJDK instead.
LibreOffice 4.x drops a few long-deprecated features, including support for legacy binary StarOffice files, export to legacy Word and Excel (version 6.0/95), and legacy ODMA document management.
Some menu entries have changed or added. If you miss something, that may be due to the use of customised menu settings from your previous LibreOffice installation.
This version still contains a few annoying bugs, as listed here. Specifically, the German Duden Korrektor extension needs a manual fix.

 

http://www.libreoffice.org/download/

[Terryala]

Libre Office v4.0.2

 

This is the third release from the 4.0 branch of LibreOffice.
It contains many exciting new features, and is suitable for early corporate adopters and private users.

The following notes apply:

This release is bit-for-bit identical to the 4.0.2 Release Candidate 2, so you don't need to download or reinstall if you have that version already.
The distribution for Windows is an international build, so you can choose the user interface language that you prefer. Help content is available via an online service, or alternatively as a separate install.
Our Windows binaries are digitally signed by The Document Foundation.
For Windows users that have OpenOffice.org installed, we advise uninstalling that beforehand, because it registers the same file type associations.
If you run Linux, the GCJ Java variant has known issues with LibreOffice, we advise to e.g. use OpenJDK instead.
LibreOffice 4.x drops a few long-deprecated features, including support for legacy binary StarOffice files, export to legacy Word and Excel (version 6.0/95), and legacy ODMA document management.
Some menu entries have changed or added. If you miss something, that may be due to the use of customised menu settings from your previous LibreOffice installation.
This version still contains a few annoying bugs, as listed here. Specifically, the German Duden Korrektor extension needs a manual fix.

 

https://www.libreoffice.org/download/

[Chachazz]

The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 3.6.6

Berlin, April 11, 2013 – The Document Foundation (TDF) announces LibreOffice 3.6.6, for Windows, MacOS and Linux, targeted to enterprises and individual end users who prefer stability to more advanced features.

 

This new release is suited to the increasing number of organizations migrating to LibreOffice, which is steadily growing worldwide.

 

LibreOffice users, free software advocates and community members can support The Document Foundation with a donation. There is a donation page – with many options including PayPal and credit cards – at http://donate.libreoffice.org, to support the growth of the project in areas such as infrastructure, marketing and development of native language communities.

 

LibreOffice 3.6.6 is available for immediate download from the following link: http://www.libreoffice.org/download/.

Extensions for LibreOffice are available from the following link: http://extensions.li...xtension-center.

 

The change log – with over 50 bugs solved – is available at https://wiki.documen...eases/3.6.6/RC1 (fixed in 3.6.6.1) and https://wiki.documen...eases/3.6.6/RC2 (fixed in 3.6.6.2).

 

Download - all systems & languages:
https://www.libreoff...nload/?nodetect

[Chachazz]

The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 4.0.3

May 9, 2013

 

Berlin, May 9, 2013 – The Document Foundation (TDF) announces LibreOffice 4.0.3, for Windows, OS X and Linux, the third minor release of LibreOffice 4.0 family. OS X Intel packages are now signed by The Document Foundation, to pass OS X Gatekeeper security without user intervention.

 

In the meantime, another large migration to LibreOffice has been announced, as the government of Spain’s autonomous region of Extremadura has just begun the switch to free software of desktop PCs and expects the majority of its 40,000 PCs to be migrated by the end of 2013. Extremadura estimates that the move to open source – including LibreOffice – will help save 30 million Euro per year.

 

Community is growing too. After the success of the LibreOffice Impress Sprint in Germany, it is now the turn of the first LibreOffice Bay Area Meetup. It will take place on May 11, 2013 starting at 2pm in the Hacker Dojo in Mountain View, California. Bjoern Michaelsen will be there for some good Q&A, and most importantly for some hands-on work on how to get involved in the project, with Simon Phipps keynoting about “Foundations and Empires”.

 

The Document Foundation and LibreOffice are still growing at a steady pace: +13% year over year according to data parsed by Ohloh, with an average of over 100 active developers per month since February 2013. These figures tops the cumulative number of over 650 new developers attracted by the project since the announcement on September 28, 2010.

 

Developers are contributing not only to the code but also to the quality of the software, as in the case of Markus Mohrhard’s python script for LibreOffice that automatically imports some 24,500 documents and tests if the program crashes in the process (http://mmohrhard.wor...in-libreoffice/), or Florian Reisinger’s LibreOffice Server Install GUI which performs a parallel installation of LibreOffice without using the command line, for QA purposes (http://flosmind.word...er-install-gui/).

 

LibreOffice 4.0.3 is another important step in the process of improving the quality and stability of the bleeding edge version of the suite, and facilitating migrations to free software by governments and enterprises.

 

The new release is available for immediate download from the following link: http://www.libreoffice.org/download/.

 

Change logs are available at the following links: https://wiki.documen...eases/4.0.3/RC1 (fixed in 4.0.3.1), https://wiki.documen...eases/4.0.3/RC2 (fixed in 4.0.3.2), and https://wiki.documen...eases/4.0.3/RC3 (fixed in 4.0.3.3).

 

Release Notes:

This is the fourth release from the 4.0 branch of LibreOffice.
It contains many exciting new features, and is suitable for early corporate adopters and private users.

 

The following notes apply:

• This release is bit-for-bit identical to the 4.0.3 Release Candidate 3, so you don't need to download or reinstall if you have that version already.
• The distribution for Windows is an international build, so you can choose the user interface language that you prefer. Help content is available via an online service, or alternatively as a separate install.
• Our Windows binaries are digitally signed by The Document Foundation.
• For Windows users that have OpenOffice.org installed, we advise uninstalling that beforehand, because it registers the same file type associations.
• If you run Linux, the GCJ Java variant has known issues with LibreOffice, we advise to e.g. use OpenJDK instead.
• LibreOffice 4.x drops a few long-deprecated features, including support for legacy binary StarOffice files, export to legacy Word and Excel (version 6.0/95), and legacy ODMA document management.
• Some menu entries have changed or added. If you miss something, that may be due to the use of customised menu settings from your previous LibreOffice installation.
• This version still contains a few annoying bugs, as listed here. Specifically, the German Duden Korrektor extension needs a manual fix.