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Who Contributes the Most to LibreOffice?

By Susan Linton 

Cedric Bosdonnat has been tracking contributions to LibreOffice since its announced fork from OpenOffice.org. He uses Git Data Miner to gleen results from the main branch of LibreOffice Git repositories. Git Data Miner is more commonly known as the tool used by Jonathan Corbet in his periodic kernel code reports. more>>

OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice Release Candidates Duke It Out

By Susan Linton 

Oracle-owned OpenOffice.org and independent LibreOffice are both nearing their freely available 3.3.0 versions and show their wares with recent release candidates. more>>

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Oracle OpenOffice.org vs. TDF LibreOffice

By Susan Linton 

Oracle continues to be at the center of controversy despite their press release stating they will continue to support and release OpenOffice.org as an open source project. Most recently Oracle was vilified by bloggers and the press for asking members of The Document Foundation to resign from OpenOffice.org due to potential conflicts of interest. more>>

5 Myths About OpenOffice.org / LibreOffice

By Bruce Byfield 

Most free software accumulates myths. Most people only know about it second hand (if at all), but few are slowed by the fact that they don't know what they are talking about. more>>

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Oracle Confirms Committment to OpenOffice.org

By Susan Linton 

During OpenOffice.org's tenth anniversary, Oracle announced it will participate in ODF Plugfest, one of the conferences aimed at furthering the Open Document Format interoperability, held October 14 - 15 in Brussels . more>>

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Your Office is Saved -- OpenOffice.org Forked!

By Susan Linton 

Those who feared that one day OpenOffice.org might go the way of OpenSolaris have found peace of mind with the announcement of The Document Foundation. more>>

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OpenOffice.org Draw: Objects and Their Problems

By Bruce Byfield 

OpenOffice.org Draw is all about objects -- items inserted into a document, each of which can be edited independently. In fact, whether you insert a picture from a file or create an object selected from the primitives (basic shapes) in the Drawing toolbar, everything in Draw is a frame. Even text in Draw is an object, and behaves differently from ordinary text in Writer. more>>

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OpenOffice.org: Interactions Between Programs

By Bruce Byfield 

Some people insist that OpenOffice.org should be called an office application instead of an office suite. The distinction that they are trying to make is that the programs in OpenOffice.org share a common code base, instead of being separate programs that are simply bundled together, the way that Microsoft Office's are. more>>

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Oracle Delivers Friday the 13th Bad Luck to FOSS

By Susan Linton 

Despite personal beliefs, everybody treads a bit more carefully on Friday the 13th. But no amount of precaution could protect the Open Source community from the wave of bad luck that fell last Friday. Oracle finally lived up to the fears many have been afraid to speak. more>>

OpenOffice.org: Sun PDF Import Extension

By Bruce Byfield 

The Sun PDF Import Extension is one of the most popular OpenOffice.org extensions ever created. more>>

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OpenOffice.org 3.3 Definitely On Its Way

By Susan Linton 

OpenOffice.org 3.2.1 was released on June 4 and a new master workspace was branched off for the upcoming 3.3 on June 5. The code in this branch will be stabilized and later become the product release that will find its way onto your desktops. more>>

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OpenOffice.org to use GStreamer for Multimedia

By Susan Linton 

Previously OpenOffice.org used Sun's Java Media Framework to play back audio and video in documents. It seemed to work well for a while, but as time went on Java became more outdated. So, developers have decided to implement the widely used GStreamer framework. more>>

OpenOffice.org Resource Files

By Bruce Byfield 

Most users interact with OpenOffice.org on the desktop. But what if you need to do a selective restore on the files that store custom gradients or colors? Troubleshoot why an extension won't install? Share resources with other users? For these kinds of tasks, you need to know a bit about where OpenOffice.org stores its files, and what you can do with them. more>>

PDF Export in OpenOffice.org

By Bruce Byfield 

Originally, PDF export in OpenOffice.org was limited to three levels of quality, whose exact differences were obscure to most users. But that was many releases ago. more>>

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