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LibreOffice 7.4 Is Now Available for Public Beta Testing, Here’s What to Expect
Submitted by Marius Nestor on Wednesday 15th of June 2022 03:18:49 PM Filed underLibreOffice 7.4 will be the fourth major release in the LibreOffice 7 series of the widely used office suite for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows platforms, and it will introduce various new features and many improvements.
While I can’t reveal all of LibreOffice 7.4 features until the final release in mid-August 2022, I can tell you that there will be enhancements all over the place, many of them contributed by Collabora and others by volunteers.
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LibreOffice 7.4 Beta1 is available for testing
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Wednesday 15th of June 2022 03:08:00 PM Filed underThe LibreOffice Quality Assurance ( QA ) Team is happy to announce LibreOffice 7.4 Beta1 is available for testing!
LibreOffice 7.4 will be released as final in mid August, 2022 ( Check the Release Plan for more information ) being LibreOffice 7.4 Beta1 the second pre-release since the development of version 7.4 started at the end of November, 2021. Since the previous release, LibreOffice 7.4 Alpha1, 920 commits have been submitted to the code repository and 220 issues got fixed. Check the release notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice.
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New versions of Collabora, LibreOffice, KDE Gear released
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Monday 13th of June 2022 04:50:21 PM Filed underFresh versions of three of the bigger open-source application suites just landed for those seeking to break free from proprietary office apps.
LibreOffice is the highest profile of them, and the project recently put out version 7.3.4, the latest release in the Community version of the suite.
The Document Foundation maintains two versions of LibreOffice; the other is the Enterprise branch.
Both versions are free. The difference is that the Community version is the faster-moving development branch. It's comparable to a free Linux distro, or a short-term Ubuntu release: there's no commercial support, but you may be able to get assistance from other users – in other words, the Community.
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LibreOffice 7.4: Top New Features and Release Details
Submitted by arindam1989 on Sunday 12th of June 2022 10:38:50 AM Filed underA list of new features in the LibreOffice 7.4 edition, including the highlights of enhancements across Calc, Impress, Writer and more.
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LibreOffice 7.3.4 Is Now Available for Download, More Than 85 Bugs Fixed
Submitted by Marius Nestor on Thursday 9th of June 2022 07:46:37 PM Filed underComing a little over a month after LibreOffice 7.3.3, the LibreOffice 7.3.4 point release is here to fix a total of 88 bugs across all core components of the open-source office suite in an attempt to make the LibreOffice 7.3 series more stable and reliable for daily use.
If you’re already using the LibreOffice 7.3 office suite in your GNU/Linux distribution, I highly recommend that you update your installations as soon as possible to version 7.3.4 for the best possible experience.
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Content controls in Writer: dropdown, picture and date types
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Wednesday 1st of June 2022 08:46:03 PM Filed underWord users expect to be able to import their document to Writer and experience a matching feature set: form filling is not an exception. Word provides several content control kinds (inline, block, row and cell content controls), this project focuses on inline ("run") content controls.
In the scope of inline content controls, the above linked blog post already described the rich text and checkbox types. In this post, we’ll focus on the new dropdown, picture and date content controls.
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LibreOffice and More
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 24th of May 2022 10:19:08 PM Filed under-
LibreOffice at the Univention Summit 2022
After two years of pandemic restrictions, more and more in-person events are now taking place. Members of the LibreOffice community attended the recent Univention Summit 2022 in Bremen, northern Germany. They had a stand with LibreOffice merchandise, talked to visitors and answered questions.
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May 2022, Month of LibreOffice Awards
In May 2022, LibreOffice has received two Awards: SourceForge’s Open Source Project of the Month, and Software Informer’s Editor’s Pick.
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Do While – Loop Example in Python | Mark Ai Code
Loops are an important and widely utilized element in all current programming languages.
A loop is the finest solution for automating a certain repeated operation or preventing yourself from writing repetitive code in your projects.
Loops are sequences of instructions that are executed repeatedly until a condition is fulfilled. Let’s take a closer look at how Python loops function.
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LibreOffice and Free/Libre Software in Education
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Friday 20th of May 2022 04:32:01 PM Filed under-
Indonesian LibreOffice community: recent activities
On Wednesday, 18 May 2022, I had the opportunity to talk in one of the sessions at the Virtual Visit of SMK Amaliah 1 Ciawi Bogor. This activity is a routine agenda for Amaliah Vocational School in the form of seminars and visits to institutions or communities to broaden students’ knowledge of Information and Communication Technology to Support Creative and Innovative Education.
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FSFE signs Dutch manifesto calling for education improvements
Students should not have to use proprietary software to participate in the educational process. The FSFE joins the Dutch coalition ‘Fair Digital Education’ supporting privacy-respecting solutions involving Free Software in schools.
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Annual Report: TDF’s (The Document Foundation) infrastructure in 2021
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Friday 13th of May 2022 06:45:37 PM Filed underSo I enabled support for up to 16384 columns in Calc by default some time ago, but just getting it to work was not necessarily the end of the work. Making Calc have 16 times more columns means that any operation that works on entire columns is suddenly 16 times slower, or even worse. Similarly this could easily lead to 16x more memory used. So the support not only needs to work, but it also needs to be usable.
It theory adding a number of empty columns to the end of a spreadsheet should not make a difference, but in practice it does. With 1024 columns it is not as necessary to ignore those empty columns as it is with 16k, and a lot of the code dates back to the times when Calc supported even fewer colums (256?), where a being little inefficient here or there didn't show. But now it suddently did.
For example, if you protect or hide all unused columns until the end of the spreadsheet, then hitting the right arrow key on the last accessible cell makes Calc check all cells to the right for whether it's possible to go into them. And checking whether a column is hidden requires searching the list of column information, which is not trivial (it's compacted in order not to waste memory). The barely noticeable cost of this with 1024 columns got large enough to cause noticeable delays. Fortunately the ColHidden() function is smart enough to return the first and last column in the compacted range where the flag is equal, the code doing the cursor navigation just up until now didn't bother using that information, but now it needed to do so.
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Improving Calc support for 16384 columns
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Friday 13th of May 2022 04:38:16 PM Filed underSo I enabled support for up to 16384 columns in Calc by default some time ago, but just getting it to work was not necessarily the end of the work. Making Calc have 16 times more columns means that any operation that works on entire columns is suddenly 16 times slower, or even worse. Similarly this could easily lead to 16x more memory used. So the support not only needs to work, but it also needs to be usable.
It theory adding a number of empty columns to the end of a spreadsheet should not make a difference, but in practice it does. With 1024 columns it is not as necessary to ignore those empty columns as it is with 16k, and a lot of the code dates back to the times when Calc supported even fewer colums (256?), where a being little inefficient here or there didn't show. But now it suddently did.
For example, if you protect or hide all unused columns until the end of the spreadsheet, then hitting the right arrow key on the last accessible cell makes Calc check all cells to the right for whether it's possible to go into them. And checking whether a column is hidden requires searching the list of column information, which is not trivial (it's compacted in order not to waste memory). The barely noticeable cost of this with 1024 columns got large enough to cause noticeable delays. Fortunately the ColHidden() function is smart enough to return the first and last column in the compacted range where the flag is equal, the code doing the cursor navigation just up until now didn't bother using that information, but now it needed to do so.
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