- Mail chew, fixed timezone issue in Online - to use localtime properly. Lunch, Board call, customer call, patch review & merging.
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The LibreOffice Quality Assurance ( QA ) Team is happy to announce LibreOffice 6.4 Alpha1 is ready for testing!
LibreOffice 6.4 will be released as final at the beginning of February, 2020 ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 6.4 Alpha1 the first pre-release since the development of version 6.4 started in the beginning of June, 2019. Since then, 4600 commits have been submitted to the code repository and more than 720 bugs have been set to FIXED in Bugzilla. Check the release notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice.
LibreOffice 6.4 Alpha1 can be downloaded from here for Linux, MacOS and Windows, and it can be installed alongside the standard version.
In case you find any problem in this pre-release, please report it in Bugzilla ( You just need a legit email account in order to create a new account ).
For help, you can contact the QA Team directly in the QA IRC channel or via Telegram.
Happy testing!!
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Writer now has a new "continuous endnotes" compatibility setting in its layout, allowing rendering endnotes in a way which is closer to what Word users expect.
First, thanks TU Dresden who made this work by Collabora possible.
Here is how it looks:
What you can see is that endnotes unconditionally start after the end of the document content in
Word, while endnotes are unconditionally on separate endnote pages in Writer. The new
ContinuousEndnotes layout compatibility flag in Writer allows rendering endnotes the Word way.
This new flag is enabled by default for DOC files, disabled otherwise.
All this is available in LibreOffice master (towards 6.4), so you can try it out right now, if interested.
I add an additional item on my (very long) todo list:
One Dialog is finished AutoCorrect tdf#127773 (left 6.3, right 6.4)
In addition to an better placement the Word Completion Tab should be now easier to understood.
Character Dialog tdf#127927, Paragraph Dialog tdf#128239 and > 100 Dialogs are on my todo list. If you like my work, become a
My new book, Self-publishing using LibreOffice Writer 6, is now available in paperback or PDF.
Printed copies are available from Lulu.com for US$15.00. Pay at Lulu.com.
Download PDF here. Cost is US$5.00, on the honor system. Please pay using the button below (Paypal or credit card). If you buy a printed copy, you are welcome to a free copy of the PDF.
Have you ever wanted to have a way to see the full content of a spreadsheet document in a pdf form, without the usual slicing of the sheets into printable pages?
Here is the screenshot of a sheet containing some data and graphics:
And this is how it looks like when exported to pdf in the old/usual way:
Also read the blog on the Collabora-website for more explanation.
If you happen to use the LibreOffice/Collabora Online REST api for document conversions, here is a command to get a preview output of your sheet:
curl --insecure -F "data=@YourSpreadSheetDocument.ods" -F "FullSheetPreview=true" https://localhost:9980/lool/convert-to/pdf > out.pdf
The feature was developed on the cp-6.2 branch of LibreOffice code-base (which is basicly Collabora Office 6.2), and is already available in Collabora Office snaphots. And is being backported to LibreOffice master, so it will be also available in LibreOffice development builds and soon in the Collabora Office snapshots.
For more info and the snapshot
In our case, the id of the new checkbox on the ui file is singlepagesheets
<object class="GtkCheckButton" id="singlepagesheets">
<property name="label" translatable="yes" context="pdfgeneralpage|singlepagesheets">Full-Sheet Previews</property>
<property name="visible">True</property>
<property name="can_focus">True</property>
<property name="receives_default">False</property>
<property name="use_underline">True</property>
<property name="xalign">0</property>
<property name="draw_indicator">True</property>
</object>
And the corresponding member in the ImpPDFTabGeneralPage class is named as mxCbSinglePageSheets
std::unique_ptr<weld::CheckButton> mxCbSinglePageSheets;
We connect the two via this line in the constructor of the class:
mxCbSinglePageSheets(m_xBuilder->weld_check_button("singlepagesheets"))
And here is a list of related commits if you would like to see what other changes were done:
On Monday September 16th, Richard Stallman, long-time president and founder of the FSF, has resigned from both his position at the FSF, and the MIT.
There’s a plethora of reporting around that – if you’re short on time, then I recommend reading Thomas Bushnell’s rather excellent medium piece in full.
Many things can be said about this event, but immediately coming to defend RMS as a principled old man, who was the victim of a witch hunt, is not it. I fundamentally disagree with Michael here, and like to point out (though its obvious), that his point of view is not shared nor endorsed by The Document Foundation, albeit aggregated on their planet.
This is what I posted last night to the TDF board, when we discussed the implications on Michael’s post being on that planet:
Dear board,
Björn wrote:
Or to put it much better argumented and better informed than I ever could:
View at Medium.com
Please do read the linked article in full. It echos my thoughts
exactly, but with much more authority & eloquence than I could have.
If you have some extra time, the entire story is many years, and
probably thousands of pages worth of words - but it's not a happy
story (it includes, at various occasions, RMS endorsing child
pornography and pedophilia).
For me, the sticking point is a slight remix of one of Thomas'
sentences: Michael treated the problem as being “let’s make sure we
don’t criticize RMS unfairly”, when the problem was actually, “how can
we come to terms with a decades-long history of RMS’s own mistreatment
of women and held views incompatible with broad societal norms &
ethics”.
In light of the above, I reject, in the strongest possible terms,
being seen near a statement that starts with "Really disappointed to
see the outcome with RMS". The blog post is offensive to women, the
victims in particular, tone-deaf to the wider issues at stake, and
harmful for TDF's reputation when issued by a board member on a
TDF-imprinted site.
It would have been better to stay silent.
Can someone please fix this?
Cheers,
-- Thorsten
Update 2019-09-23: Perhaps not entirely unambiguous – I wasn’t suggesting here that Michael would fully endorse RMS, but coming to his defense at this incident. Also adding the real name of my fellow TDF director, whom I was responding to in the mail above.
Update 2019-10-15: Bradley Kuhn’s statement after leaving the FSF is worth reading in its entirety, and well reflects what I believe leaders should aspire to.
LibreOffice 6.4 está siendo desarrollado por nuestra comunidad mundial y su lanzamiento está previsto para principios de febrero de 2020 – puedes ver las notas de lanzamiento que describen las nuevas características. Por supuesto, estamos en la fase inicial …
在 LibreOffice 專案中做出重要技術決策的人是誰？在這個從最近在西班牙舉辦的 LibreOffice Conference 影片中，工程指導委員會（Engineering Steering Committee，簡稱 ESC）介紹了他們的任務並提供了近況更新：
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If you think nothing happens in LibreOffice, that’s not true. I for example prepair some new Templates and Galleries for LibreOffice.
GUI Widgets for LibreOffice (Draw)If you are interested, join the LibreOffice Design Team.
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Writer now has a new "allow overlap" shape property for anchored objects, which can ensure that objects with overlapping positioning properties don’t actually overlap.
First, thanks TU Dresden who made this work by Collabora possible.
Here is a video showing how it works:
Under the hood, this is a full new Writer feature, since previously shapes were always allowed to overlap with each other:
macros get a new AllowOverlap shape property (true by default)
layout takes this into account if you set the property on the UI
both DOCX and ODT filters serialize and load this property (ODT proposal)
All this is available in LibreOffice master (towards 6.4), so you can try it out right now, if interested.
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