Cuando se anunció The Document Foundation hace dieciséis años, a algunas personas les pareció que el nombre era un poco soso. No brillaba. Se refería a un objeto -el documento- en lugar de a un producto, un movimiento o una aspiración. Hoy en día, vale la pena volver a analizar
When The Document Foundation was announced sixteen years ago, some people found the name a little flat. It didn’t sparkle. It named an object — the document — rather than a product, a movement, or an aspiration. Today, that same name is worth a second look, because it turns out to have pointed at exactly the place the digital sovereignty debate would eventually arrive.
To see why, it helps to ask a simple question: when you are locked into a piece of software, where does the lock actually live?
The intuitive answer is “in the application.” You feel trapped by the program — its menus, its habits, the licence you keep renewing. But the application is replaceable. You can install a different one tomorrow. What you cannot so easily replace is your documents — the years of contracts, records, reports, and correspondence you have produced. And if those documents are saved in a format that only one company’s software can fully read, then the lock was never really in the application at all. It was in the file.
This is the quiet mechanism behind most document lock-in. The format does the trapping. As long as your organisation’s memory is stored in a format controlled by a single vendor, you depend on that vendor to read your own past — and that dependency does not end when you switch programs, because the documents come with you.
This is also why “digital sovereignty” is not, at root, a question about geography or about which company you buy from. It is a question about control: whether you, and not a supplier, hold the keys to your own information over time. An organisation that cannot open its own archives without permission is not sovereign over them, wherever it happens to be located.
The answer is older and simpler than the debate that has grown up around it: open document standards. A document saved in an open, fully published format — one any software can implement, today or in fifty years — belongs to the person who wrote it, not to the company whose program happened to create it. The format stops being a lock and becomes what it should always have been: a neutral container for your own words.
The name said this all along. It put the document at the centre, because the document is where the question is decided. Sixteen years on, the rest of the conversation is catching up — and we have only just begun to scratch the surface.
Esto forma parte del Informe Anual 2025 de The Document Foundation (TDF), la organización sin fines de lucro que coordina el proyecto y la comunidad de LibreOffice. Próximamente se publicarán más contenidos. Lanzamientos del año El plan de lanzamientos de LibreOffice sigue un calendario basado en el tiempo, con actualizaciones
We are pleased to announce the release of the latest Getting Started Guide, updated for LibreOffice 26.2!
The Documentation Team is proud to present this new edition, designed to help users with an introductory guide of LibreOffice, covering all aspects of the best open source free office suite, from word processing to databases as well as settings and configuration common to all modules.
Writer (word processing) Calc (spreadsheets) Impress (presentations) Draw (vector graphics) Math (formula editor) Base (database management)
This guide is part of our growing collection of documentation — lovingly written, edited, and reviewed by a global team of dedicated volunteers who are passionate about open-source software and digital freedom.
The 26.2 update was coordinated by Dione Maddern, with valuable contributions from Peter Schofield and Olivier Hallot. A huge thanks to everyone involved!
This is part of the Annual Report 2025 from The Document Foundation, the non-profit that coordinates the LibreOffice project and community. More will be posted soon…
Releases of the Year
LibreOffice’s release plan works on a time-based release schedule, with major updates every six months (typically in February and August). So in other words, there are two new versions of LibreOffice per year. Many other FOSS projects adopt a similar time-based approach, and since 2024, LibreOffice has used a “year.month” versioning scheme – so LibreOffice 25.2, for instance, was released in the second month (February) of 2025. This versioning scheme helps users to see how old (or new) their currently installed version of LibreOffice is.
In addition to the major upgrades, there were monthly smaller “point” releases, mainly fixing bugs, compatibility issues and security vulnerabilities.
Major Feature Highlights
LibreOffice 25.2 was released on February 6. It introduced the ability to read and write ODF version 1.4, alongside numerous interoperability improvements with proprietary OOXML documents. It became possible to automatically sign documents after defining a default certificate. Additionally, Windows 7 and 8/8.1 were designated as deprecated platforms, with support scheduled to be removed in version 25.8, and extensions and features relying on Python ceased to work on Windows 7.
In LibreOffice Writer 25.2, improvements were made to Track Changes management to better handle a large number of changes in long documents. Comments were tracked in the Navigator when the focus was moved into them, while resizing the area containing comments showed a visual guide. Options were added to set a default zoom level for opening documents, which overrode the level stored within the documents themselves. It also became possible to delete all content of a specific content type, excluding headings, via the Navigator.
In LibreOffice Calc 25.2, a “Handle Duplicate Records” dialog was added to select or remove duplicate records. Both the Function Wizard dialog and the Functions Sidebar deck received improvements to searching and user experience. Solver models could be saved into spreadsheets, and the Solver became able to provide a sensitivity analysis report. New sheet protection options were also added relating to Pivot Tables, Pivot Charts, and AutoFilters.
Furthermore, many improvements were made to all Impress templates, which received visible elements, such as the font colour being set to black, in Master Notes and Handout. Objects could be centred on the Impress slide or Draw page in a single step, and the automatic repeating of slides could be activated in windowed mode. Finally, overflowing text in presenter notes was no longer cut off when printing.
Please confirm that you want to play a YouTube video. By accepting, you will be accessing content from YouTube, a service provided by an external third party.
LibreOffice is the free, private, open source office suite – and successor to OpenOffice. It’s made by a worldwide community, and you can be part of it! Boost your skillset, learn new people, and have fun – find out what you can do for LibreOffice.
Please confirm that you want to play a YouTube video. By accepting, you will be accessing content from YouTube, a service provided by an external third party.
General Activities LibreOffice 25.8.7 was announced on May 12 Olivier Hallot (TDF) improved the explanation for DATE function in Calc’s Function Wizard, continued documenting in help how LibreOffice treats non-integer values for function parameters expecting integer values, added a help page for Draft View in Writer, added help for Calculated
Un compromiso muy positivo con los estándares abiertos, y por qué debería culminar con el ODF como formato de documento nativo de Euro-Office. El preanuncio de Euro-Office ha generado una considerable cobertura en la prensa europea durante los últimos días. The Document Foundation celebra la atención que están recibiendo los
A welcome commitment to open standards — and why it should end with ODF as Euro-Office’s native document format.
The Euro-Office pre-announcement has generated considerable coverage across the European press over the past few days. The Document Foundation welcomes the attention that open standards are receiving — and welcomes still more the commitment the announcement makes to them. Before the discussion settles, we would like to clarify one point and state one expectation.
Several reports have described Euro-Office as “the first European open source office suite.” Reading the pre-announcement carefully, we do not find the coalition making that claim, and it is not one we would endorse. Europe has been building free and open source office software for many years: LibreOffice, developed by this Foundation and a worldwide community, is itself European, mature, and far from alone.
The “first” framing appears to have emerged in the speed of a launch day rather than in the text of the announcement. We note it not to claim precedence — precedence is not the point — but because accuracy serves the cause of open standards better than enthusiasm alone.
Read on its merits, the announcement gives a great deal to welcome. The promise to improve support for the OpenDocument Format is precisely what the European free software community has long asked for, and we take it in good faith and with genuine appreciation. We have always held that sovereignty begins with the format, not with the logo on the application — and a coalition that understands this is one worth encouraging.
We would also state an expectation, in the spirit of encouragement rather than demand. Improved support is a beginning, not a destination. A format that is merely supported is one a suite can read and write as a courtesy, while a native format is the one in which its documents are created, stored, and trusted across the years — and that is precisely where digital sovereignty is won or lost.
The only destination consistent with the sovereignty Euro-Office invokes is ODF as its native document format. A genuinely European, genuinely sovereign office suite cannot treat the open standard as a concession to outsiders, it has to speak ODF as its mother tongue. The Document Foundation looks forward to that moment, and will be glad to acknowledge it when it comes.
Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more…
We started May by announcing the new LibreOffice website. Our previous website was looking rather old and becoming difficult to maintain, so the team at TDF – with help of the wider LibreOffice community – has been working on a redesign, based on newer technology.
In the middle of the month, we announced LibreOffice 25.8.7, the final maintenance release of the LibreOffice 25.8 family. From here we will focus on maintaining the 26.2 branch, and are preparing for 26.8, our next major release (due in August).
The vast majority of income to The Document Foundation, the non-profit behind the LibreOffice project and community, is from donations from end users. We made a new video explaining how donations are used to support the community that makes the software.
Please confirm that you want to play a YouTube video. By accepting, you will be accessing content from YouTube, a service provided by an external third party.
If you accept this notice, your choice will be saved and the page will refresh.
Next, we started posting sections from TDF’s Annual Report 2025, starting with Native Language Projects. A huge thanks to the hundreds of people who make LibreOffice available is so many languages around the world!
Love LibreOffice? Got experience with infrastructure and system administration? We are The Document Foundation (TDF), the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice. We’re passionate about free software, the open source culture and about bringing new people with fresh ideas into our project.
To assist the LibreOffice community with its work, we are looking for a full-time (remote) Infrastructure and System Administrator, to start as soon as possible.
Here’s what you’ll do
System orchestration and OS management: Orchestrate, deploy, and maintain all internal and external systems, specifically standard and customised Linux operating systems, with the majority of machines running Debian GNU/Linux. We currently run SaltStack, but proposals for different ways to handle config management and deployment are welcome.
Virtualisation and storage infrastructure: Manage virtualisation platforms and hypervisors (KVM/QEMU). Experience with GlusterFS (for the backup system) is a plus, but not mandatory.
Database, cloud, and App Administration: Administer database servers such as MariaDB and PostgreSQL, cloud storage repositories (such as Nextcloud), web applications, email services, and developer tooling.
Network and hardware maintenance: Maintain core physical and cloud network infrastructure, including routers, switches, and NAS storage, amongst them devices from MikroTik.
Security and network access: Oversee firewalls, intrusion detection, antivirus, IP reputation, global mirror systems, and secure VPNs for users and machines.
Identity and access management: Deploy and manage single sign-on (SSO) solutions, directory services, domain names, DNS zones, and SSL certificates (PKI).
Ensure stable operations and monitoring: Together with teammates and volunteers, ensure stable infrastructure availability, manage log analysis, handle emergencies, and coordinate with external providers during outages.
Patch management: Execute timely deployments of security and software updates within scheduled maintenance windows.
Team coordination and documentation: Lead and coordinate the infrastructure team, volunteer contributors, and third-party vendors, while keeping technical documentation up to date.
Data protection and disaster recovery: Implement backup and point-in-time disaster recovery solutions, and manage infrastructure-related GDPR compliance in cooperation with privacy officers.
What we want from you
Very good sysadmin and infra maintenance skills on Linux
Good team-playing abilities
Speaking and writing English
As always, TDF will give some preference to individuals who have previously shown a commitment to TDF, including but not limited to members of TDF. Not being a member does not exclude any applicants from consideration.
Join us!
All jobs at The Document Foundation are remote jobs, where you can work from your home office or a co-working space. The work time during the day is flexible, apart from a few fixed meetings. The role is offered as full-time (ideally 40 hours per week). While we prefer full-time for the role, part-time applications, or proposals to grow the hours over time, will be considered. Candidates that are resident in Germany will be employed directly by TDF. Otherwise, external payroll services will be used if available in the candidate’s country of residence.
Are you interested? Get in touch!
TDF welcomes applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, gender, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age. Don’t be …
Estimados usuarios de paquetes ofimáticos: En los últimos días habrán leído diversos artículos que anuncian la llegada de Euro-Office, que se está promocionando como el primer paquete ofimático de código abierto desarrollado en Europa. Nos vemos obligados -a regañadientes, ya que el código abierto debe basarse en la transparencia, no
In recent days you will have read various articles announcing the arrival of Euro-Office, which is being “marketed” as the first open-source office suite developed in Europe. We feel compelled — reluctantly, since open source should rest on transparency, not deception — to correct this claim. The first open-source office suite developed in Europe was OpenOffice.org in 2001, based on StarOffice’s source code, followed by LibreOffice from 2010.
These are two genuine open-source office suites, built from source code that originated in Europe. They are not a freeware clone of MS Office whose code provenance is undisclosed, nor a product that has rebranded itself out of pure opportunism to ride today’s wave of Digital Sovereignty.
It is worth remembering that many of those who champion Digital Sovereignty today were silent back in 2006, when the open ISO/IEC ODF standard — the pillar of Digital Sovereignty — was announced: not only did they not listen to us during all these years, but in some cases they greeted us with a condescending smile.
If we can speak of Digital Sovereignty in Europe today, it is thanks to The Document Foundation and LibreOffice community members at large, who kept the flag of open-source office suites flying when everyone was predicting their demise, and who continued to develop the only truly open and standard format that guarantees Digital Sovereignty, as it provides full user control over content.
Document formats are a subject still rife with misinformation. This is understandable on the part of Microsoft, which developed and controls the horrible proprietary OOXML format, designed precisely to prevent Digital Sovereignty by maintaining content lock-in. It is far less understandable on the part of companies that claim to advocate open source, such as those promoting Euro-Office.
Euro-Office defaults to the fully proprietary OOXML document format, developed and controlled solely by Microsoft. This makes it a de facto ally of Microsoft in its content lock-in strategy, with control remaining firmly in Redmond and far from Europe.
So, despite what is being written in support of Euro-Office — the latest of the office suites developed in Europe, and not the first — the announcement is not against Microsoft. On the contrary, it strengthens Microsoft’s strategy against European Digital Sovereignty, or, if you prefer, against the freedom of European users to control and manage their own content.
Firebird is gaining support for Unix Domain Sockets (UDS) through PR #9034, a feature aimed at improving local inter-process connectivity, especially in constrained environments like Android and iOS. The change introduces a new unix:// connection string format and a RemoteServiceUnixSocket configuration option, allowing Firebird clients and services to communicate over filesystem-based sockets
The Document Foundation (TDF) anunció el 5 de junio de 2026 el lanzamiento de LibreOffice 26.2.4, la cuarta actualización de mantenimiento de la rama LibreOffice 26.2. Basada en la gran versión publicada en febrero de este año, esta nueva compilación incorpora correcciones puntuales de errores y mejoras importantes de estabilidad,
Berlin, 5 June 2026 – The Document Foundation today announced the release of LibreOffice 26.2.4, the fourth maintenance update to the LibreOffice 26.2 branch. Building on the major feature release published on February 4, 2026, this update delivers targeted bug fixes and stability improvements contributed by a global community of developers and QA engineers.
LibreOffice 26.2.4 is available for immediate download at libreoffice.org/download/ for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Users of LibreOffice 25.8.x should update to LibreOffice 26.2.4 as LibreOffice 25.8 branch will reach end of life on June 12, and after that date the software will not receive security updates. In late August 2026, The Document Foundation will announce LibreOffice 26.8.
LibreOffice 26.2 introduced a broad set of improvements to daily productivity workflows, including Markdown import and export, connector shapes in Calc, multi-user Base, faster EPUB export, and mandatory Skia rendering on macOS and Windows for better graphics performance. LibreOffice 26.2.4 consolidates these advances with a focused set of fixes, addressing issues identified by users and testers since the initial release.
LibreOffice users, free software advocates and community members can support The Document Foundation and the LibreOffice project with a donation at www.libreoffice.org/donate.
Cuando a una administración pública se le dice que sus documentos están almacenados en «un formato estándar ISO», la suposición es razonable: una norma ISO debería ser una especificación clara y aplicable que cualquier proveedor de software calificado pueda admitir. Las normas existen precisamente para que nadie quede atado
En el fútbol, los títulos no los gana una sola estrella. Los grandes equipos se construyen con estrategia, talento, sacrificio y un plantel que sabe jugar en conjunto. En The Document Foundation pasa exactamente lo mismo. Detrás de LibreOffice -la suite ofimática libre utilizada por millones de personas en todo
When a public administration is told its documents are stored in “an ISO standard format,” the assumption is reasonable: an ISO standard ought to be a clean, implementable specification that any qualified software vendor can support. Standards exist precisely so that nobody is locked to a single supplier.
OOXML — ISO/IEC 29500, the format behind Microsoft’s docx, xlsx and pptx files — does not work this way.
The standard is split into two conformance classes. Strict is the clean version: a modern document format, free of legacy baggage, that an independent implementer could reasonably support. Transitional is everything else: a vast catalogue of compatibility features, deprecated elements, platform-specific behaviours, and references to undocumented quirks of Microsoft Office versions from the 1990s. The Transitional class exists to ensure that documents converted from the old binary doc, xls and ppt formats can be represented in XML without loss.
There is one detail that matters above all others: Microsoft Office has never produced Strict OOXML by default. The option to save in Strict format is available in the installed desktop applications but is absent from the browser-based versions of Microsoft 365 — and Microsoft’s various editions have long differed in which features they offer, with the macOS version historically providing a different set of options from the Windows version. The “ISO standard” that public administrations are actually storing their documents in, when they use Office, is Transitional — the messy one. Strict is a feature you can find if you know where to look, on the platforms where Microsoft has chosen to support it. That is not the treatment a serious open standard receives.
This has consequences that go well beyond a technicality.
The standard codifies undocumented legacy behaviour. Transitional OOXML contains compatibility flags whose specification amounts to “behave like Word 95” or “lay out footnotes like Word 97.” These are not formal definitions. They are references to the behaviour of specific commercial software products released more than thirty years ago — products whose layout algorithms were never published. An independent implementer wishing to render such a document correctly must reverse-engineer software from the Windows 95 era. This is not standardisation in any meaningful sense; it is the codification of one vendor’s implementation history as a global norm.
The standard perpetuates known bugs. Excel famously treats 1900 as a leap year — it was not — because Lotus 1-2-3 did so in the 1980s, and Microsoft chose binary compatibility with Lotus over arithmetic correctness [1]. OOXML Transitional preserves this bug. The default workbook setting in every xlsx file you have ever opened encodes a date arithmetic error from the era of MS-DOS. A spreadsheet calculating durations across February 1900 will produce wrong answers, and the standard requires this.
The standard includes obsolete graphics formats. Vector Markup Language (VML) was submitted by Microsoft to the W3C in 1998 as a candidate vector graphics standard. The W3C rejected it in favour of SVG. VML should have died there. Instead, it lives on inside OOXML Transitional, because documents converted …
Escrito por: Jonathan Clark Resumen ejecutivo Esta propuesta plantea reiniciar el desarrollo de LibreOffice para web, móvil y la nube, estructurando el proyecto en un conjunto de iniciativas independientes. Cada iniciativa puede llevarse a cabo por separado, y sus resultados aportarán mejoras útiles a LibreOffice, incluso sin los demás componentes.
Varios periodistas interpretaron el artículo de la semana pasada como un ataque contra Microsoft. Queremos explicarles lo que se les pasó por alto. Cada vez que abordamos la diferencia entre ODF y OOXML, algunas personas lo perciben como una campaña contra una empresa. No es así. Estamos tratando de hacer
LibreOffice es una aplicación de escritorio, y seguiremos desarrollándola. Sin embargo, recibimos constantemente solicitudes de versiones web y móviles, por lo que aquí presentamos nuestro plan actualizado. A continuación se incluyen las actas de las reuniones del equipo y la Junta Directiva de TDF sobre la estrategia web y móvil
General Activities LibreOffice 26.2.3 was announced on April 30 Olivier Hallot (TDF) updated Writer’s Compatibility options help, improved documentation for wrapped images in headers, worked on documenting in help how LibreOffice treats non-integer values for function parameters expecting integer values, improved help for Declare statement in BASIC, added help for
Breaking the Single-Thread Barrier: How Firebird’s New Parallel Sort Changes Everything1. Introduction: The Multi-Core ParadoxThere is a specific economic and technical frustration well-known to database architects: authorizing the purchase of high-end silicon with 64 or 128 cores, only to watch the OS scheduler show a single thread redlining while the rest of the hardware sits idle.
Major Update: Help Us Test the New Firebird Docker Images
We have been working on a significant overhaul of the official firebird-docker images, and a pre-release version is now available for testing at:
Pre-release Container Registry
We would love to get feedback from the community before these changes are merged upstream.
What’s New
Firebird 6
FlameRobin 0.9.16 released focuses on: modernizing CI/build tooling fixing compiler/linker issues , improving packaging (Flatpak), and delivering a set of Firebird metadata/DDL extraction and SQL editor correctness improvementshttps://github.com/mariuz/flamerobin/releases/tag/0.9.16
In September 2025, I attended the LibreOffice Conference in Budapest, Hungary, on the 4th and the 5th, and a community meeting on the 3rd. Thanks to The Document Foundation (TDF) for sponsoring my travel and accommodation costs. The conference venue was Faculty of Informatics, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE).
The conference was planned to be held from the 4th to the 6th, but the program for the 6th of September had to be canceled due to the venue being unavailable because of a marathon in Budapest. So, all the talks got squeezed into just two days, making the schedule a bit hectic.
The TDF had booked my room at the Corvin Hotel. It was a double bedroom with a window. The breakfast was included in the hotel booking. The hotel was walking distance from the conference venue. One could also take a tram from the hotel to reach the venue.
A shot of my room. Photo by Ravi Dwivedi, released under CC-BY-SA 4.0.
A tram in Budapest. Photo by Ravi Dwivedi, released under CC-BY-SA 4.0.
3rd of September
On the 3rd of September, we had a community meeting at the above-mentioned venue. I walked with my friend Dione to the venue. Upon reaching there, I noticed that the university had no boundaries and gates. This reminded me of the previous year’s conference venue in Luxembourg, which also had no boundaries or gates.
In contrast, Indian universities and institutes typically have walls and gates serving as boundaries to separate them from the rest of the city. Many of these institutes also have security guards at the entrance, who may ask attendees to present proof of admission before allowing them inside. I was surprised to find that institutes in Europe, like the one where the conference was held, did not have such boundaries.
The building where the conference was held was red, which happened to be the same color as the building for the previous year’s conference venue. I remember joking with Dione that the criteria for the conference venue might have been the color of the building.
The red building in the picture served as the conference venue. Photo by Ravi Dwivedi, released under CC-BY-SA 4.0.
During the community meeting, we shared ideas on how to spread the word about LibreOffice. The meeting lasted for a couple of hours.
After the community meeting, we went to the hotel for dinner sponsored by the TDF.
These Esterházy cake bites were really yummy. Photo by Ravi Dwivedi, released under CC-BY-SA 4.0.
Raspberry Currant cake slices. Photo by Ravi Dwivedi, released under CC-BY-SA 4.0.
4th of September
On the first day of the conference, attendees were given swag bags containing a pad, sticky notes, a pen, a conference T-shirt, and a bottle.
Conference swag. Photo by Ravi Dwivedi, released under CC-BY-SA 4.0.
The talks started early in the morning with Eliane Domingos, Chairperson of TDF’s Board of Directors, giving the inauguration talk …
I've been looking fairly closely at the coordinate system of VCL. I understood it fairly well, but as I have a Pro subscription of Gemini, I asked it to look at it for me to tell me how it thinks it works. Here is what it came up with:
If you’ve ever worked on a complex UI rendering engine, you know that placing a single pixel on the screen is rarely as simple as draw(x, y). A single coordinate actually exists in several different "realities" simultaneously.
In LibreOffice’s VCL (Visual Components Library), a coordinate has to travel through up to five distinct spatial dimensions to get from the mathematical purity of a document model to the physical LED pixels on your monitor.
If you get an offset wrong or apply a scaling factor out of order, your text disappears off the page, your borders render fuzzy, or your PDF exports break entirely. To fix these issues and modernize the rendering stack, we have to establish a strict, predictable pipeline.
Here is a deep dive into the five coordinate spaces of the LibreOffice VCL, and the math required to traverse them.
The 5 Coordinate Spaces
Think of these spaces as a series of nested Russian dolls. To get to the center (the document), you have to open them one by one.
1. Absolute Logic (Document Space)
This is the pure, mathematical space of the document itself.
Units: Defined by the MapMode (e.g., 1/100th of a millimeter for high-precision printing).
Origin (0,0): The absolute top-left corner of the page or document canvas.
The Variable: Represented simply as nX or nY.
2. Logic Units (Pipeline Space)
This is an intermediate staging area. The coordinate is still in logical document units, but it has been intentionally shifted.
The Shift:mnOutOffLogic.
Why it exists: This is an artificial shift applied to the document origin. It is frequently used when VCL needs to render a specific sub-section or "tile" of a document without actually changing the underlying coordinates of the objects themselves.
3. View Space (Viewport Space)
Welcome to the realm of pixels—specifically, pixels relative to the viewport (the scrollable area of the application).
The Transformation: To get here, we multiply the Logic Units by the DPI and Zoom scale (mfMapScX / mfMapScY).
The Shift:mnMapOfsX / mnMapOfsY (The Mapping Offset).
Why it exists: The origin (0,0) here is the top-left of your current scroll position. As you scroll down a Writer document, the mapping offset changes, shifting the view without altering the document.
4. Window Space (Client Space)
These are pixels relative to the GUI window frame itself.
The Shift:mnOutOffOrigX / mnOutOffOrigY (The VCL Pixel Offset).
Why it exists: The origin (0,0) is the top-left corner of the specific LibreOffice window or UI widget you are interacting with. VCL uses this offset internally to account for things like scrollbars, widget borders, or docking areas inside a window. This is the coordinate space where your mouse click events …
General Activities LibreOffice 25.8.6 and LibreOffice 26.2.2 were announced on March 26 Olivier Hallot (TDF) added a help page for drag & drop features for items in text documents, updated help for Text Grid in Writer and PDF export General page and improved the help for Calc’s advanced filter options
The Document Foundation is not responsible for the content on planet.documentfoundation.org. However - if you have any concerns about content please contact act Mike Saunders for moderation. Copyright information: Unless otherwise specified in the author's blog, all text and images on this website are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. This does not include the source code of LibreOffice, which is licensed under the "Mozilla Public License v2.0". "LibreOffice" and "The Document Foundation" are registered trademarks of their corresponding registered owners or are in actual use as trademarks in one or more countries. Their respective logos and icons are also subject to international copyright laws. Use thereof is explained in our trademark policy.