Blog – Uncategorized

Collabora Online 4.2.9 refines the handling of comments

  The new minor release of Collabora Online 4.2.9 brings further improvements in the joint editing of documents. It offers new options to work with comment threads – comments on comments. Both single comments as well as a complete thread can now be marked as “solved”. This also applies to...

Collabora Productivity joins the Open Source Business Alliance

Together we are strong. The Open Source Business Alliance is committed to promoting open source software and open standards for a digitally sovereign society with a strong focus on the Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The goal is to establish open source as a standard in public procurement and in the...

Implementing Vulkan-capable LibreOffice user interface using the Skia library

This work by Collabora Productivity was possible thanks to AMD. LibreOffice 7.0, just released, includes a new drawing backend based on the Skia library, which allows LibreOffice to use the modern Vulkan API to graphics operations. This Visual Class Library (VCL) backend is the default on the Windows platform, superseding...

Experience Collabora Online on your Intel NUC with Nextcloud and Ubuntu

Keeping full control over your personal data and documents, is more and more important. Sharing by email or via the services of big tech companies is losing its shine, for obvious reasons. To help our users we introduce a new fresh Nextcloud Ubuntu Appliance for the Intel NUC, that comes...

Add Visible Digital Signatures to Existing PDF Files in Collabora Office 6.4

Collabora Office already had the capability to add a digital signature to an existing PDF file. The PDF file was to be selected, starting with File > Digital Signatures > Sign existing PDF. This still works the same now. The file is then opened as read only in Draw and...

Collabora Online and mobile now with full CJK support

Starting from today’s release more users around the globe will benefit from Collabora Office on iOS and Android! With the just released version 4.2.6 there is full support of CJK fonts and also the user interface has various related improvements. Fonts available on your mobile device for Chinese, Japanese, Korean,...