Category Archives: Openoffice.org
LibreOffice Conference 2011
I’ve recently been to the LibreOffice Conference 2011 in Paris. It’s very nice to finally meet in person all those “names” from the malinglist and the bug reports. Although meeting most people for the first time, I left the conference … Continue reading
Filed under LibreOffice, Openoffice.org
LibreOffice Conference 2011
The first LibreOffice conference is approaching (12th-15th of October), and I’m very excited about it. I recently sent a talk proposal for RTL issues in LibreOffice. I guess that most of the developer aren’t aware from personal experience to the … Continue reading
Filed under LibreOffice, Openoffice.org
Oracle Open Office 3.3 Vs. OpenOffice.org 3.3
The H Open Source have announced that Oracle have released it’s Oracle Open Office 3.3. I was very happy to see that title on my RSS feeder, and checked download.openoffice.org to see that version 3.2.1 is still the main version, … Continue reading
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Oracle PDF Import Extension 1.0.4 is here
Today, Oracle have uploaded version 1.0.4 of its PDF Import Extension to the OpenOffice.org extension repository. The repository have had version 1.0.1 for the last year under Sun’s branding. The extension is the 3rd most popular in the extension repository … Continue reading
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a very good day for bidi in openoffice.org
As a follow up on my report from last month about bidi status in openoffice.org 3.3, today was a very good day for bidi in openoffice.org. The short story: two important bugs were fixed for 3.3, and we now have … Continue reading
Filed under Israeli Community, LibreOffice, Openoffice.org
LibreOffice first steps
It has been 12 hours since the LibreOffice announcement, and the projects starts to do its first steps. Neil Brown had submitted the first patch to LibreOffice, after waiting for 3 years (!) while the patch was available at the … Continue reading
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Welcome The Document Foundation and LibreOffice
For those who haven’t heard: OpenOffice.org Community announces The Document Foundation The community of volunteers developing and promoting OpenOffice.org sets up an independent Foundation to drive the further growth of the project The Internet, September 28, 2010 – The community … Continue reading
Filed under LibreOffice, Openoffice.org, Proud to use free software
Hebrew translation and Bidi issues in Openoffice 3.3 (beta)
In the last few years the Israeli government founded some work on openoffice.org by Tk Open Systems Ltd. During the years, the work has resulted with an “Israeli version”, released after the official release and includes a lot of patches … Continue reading
Filed under i18n & l10n, Israeli Community, Openoffice.org
Norway: ODF and PDF as official goverment formats
Looks like the Norwegian made a step forward regarding open standards: Public enterprises should not use other file formats than ODF (version 1.1) and PDF as attachment at the exchange of documents by email. This rule will apply from 1. … Continue reading
Filed under Open Standards, Openoffice.org
“Get Openoffice.org” icon on a new laptop
I recently saw a new bought Toshiba laptop. While the laptop had Vista installed, and also the Microsoft Office 2007 trail eddition, it had an icon named “Get Openoffice.org”. I guess they didn’t just install Openoffice.org due to some limitaion … Continue reading
