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Improvements to Font Listing

18th February 201822nd February 2018

Font handling is a major topic for office suites and as a result, LibreOffice’s bug tracker has numerous reported issues and suggestions on how to enhance the workflow. In a past blog post, we presented a solution for font substitution and now it is time to talk about font listing.

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LibreOffice mascot – lesson learned and an apology

22nd December 201722nd February 2018

With many approaching the holiday season, it looks like the heated discussions about the LibreOffice mascot have settled down. It is probably too early to re-launch the project, as memories of what has happened in October and November are still rather fresh, and so we would like to share our

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Statement about LibreOffice Mascot Project

20th November 201722nd February 2018

On Thursday, we came to the conclusion to close voting for the LibreOffice mascot in advance of the planned schedule in December. For a number of reasons, the process has evolved in a direction we were not expecting. When we started, we were looking for a visual image which could

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LibreOffice mascot survey: The progress so far

16th November 201722nd February 2018

As you’ve no doubt seen, over the last few months we’ve been looking for a LibreOffice mascot. This is just something fun for our community to use, for instance on T-shirts at events, so it doesn’t have to be ultra slick and professional – it isn’t a replacement for the

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LibreOffice Mascot: Iterating the submissions

13th November 201722nd February 2018

tl;dr: Please comment at https://imageboard.documentfoundation.org/posts The voting phase has been conducted with great success. More than 27,000 people had a look at the submissions and many voted on all items. Thanks a lot for your interest and contribution! There has also been some discussion on various social media channels about

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Community-vote for the new ‘Getting Started Guide’ cover

8th November 201722nd February 2018

The new release 6.0 of LibreOffice is just around the corner. And we also want to update the documentation for this release. We have three proposals for new covers and would like to know which one you prefer. Please vote by clicking option 1, 2 or 3 below and submit

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Improvements to Lists in LibreOffice Impress

28th October 201722nd February 2018

Enumeration of lists is one of the most struggled features in LibreOffice Impress. That is clear from the issues reported on Bugzilla tdf#103364 and tdf#103369 with over 100 bugs and enhancement requests, but also when asking users. A usability test was conducted at the city of Nantes revealed some of

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LibreOffice Extension: How to Bundle Icon Themes

23rd October 201722nd February 2018

Making LibreOffice more flexible is one of our primary goals announced with the MUFFIN concept. Extensions are a great way for personalization and just like we did for color palettes, we’ve now made icon themes available as extensions. This blog post describes how to create and share your own icon

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A Flock of Hummingbirds: On the Search for the LibreOffice Mascot

28th September 201722nd February 2018

tl;dr: Please vote on the LibreOffice Mascot until Oct/08th at https://survey.documentfoundation.org/665628 (survey expired) Additional to the unique branding of LibreOffice today, we want to introduce an alternative to TDF’s trademarked logo/icon elements that can be used by the community with minimal restrictions. And as an open source project we involve

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Default Margins that Users Apply in LibreOffice Writer

26th September 201722nd February 2018

Earlier this year we run a survey about default margins in LibreOffice Writer. The results should prove that the default settings are what users apply in most cases. For the first question, What should LibreOffice Writer’s default page margin should be?, participants could choose from a couple of presets but

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