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Team blog: selecting images and shapes in LibreOffice Editor for Android

By Miklos Vajna: In ‘From input handling to selections’, I wrote about how we let the LibreOffice for Android app draw the selections around text content natively. The next step in this Document Foundation funded project is to provide selections around more UI elements: images and shapes. Read the rest...

LibreOffice-from-Collabora 4.3 released

Today we release LibreOffice-from-Collabora 4.3, featuring a plethora of new features from Collabora and the community. Together with all features from LibreOffice 4.3 tested and hardened, we’ve also included important back-ported improvements from the latest LibreOffice 4.4 Fresh. Packed with features Huge improvements over LibreOffice-from-Collabora 4.2 With more than 40...

LibreOffice 4.5 to provide PDF signing and timestamping

Collabora Productivity has completed integration of trusted timestamping and digital signing into LibreOffice. Used extensively by governments and information security companies, these features make LibreOffice the first comprehensive Open Source PDF signing solution. The work was commissioned by Swiss non-profit Wilhelm Tux after a successful crowdfunding campaign in October. Trusted...

Team Blog: Handling text selection in LibreOffice Editor for Android

By Miklos Vajna: In “from a living document to input handling”, I wrote about how we handle touch and on-screen keyboard events in the LibreOffice Android app. A next step in this TDF-funded project is to provide more UI elements which are specific to touch devices: selections is one of...

Stabilising LibreOffice Viewer for Android

By Jan “Kendy” Holešovský At the end of the last week we released the new version of LibreOffice Viewer for Android, and I must say, it is a pretty solid release. The app is still in Beta, and some problems (like occasional crashes) should be anticipated, but overall there have...

Open Source Engages Government at Brighton Event

On Tuesday representatives of Government and the third sector will engage with Open Source service organisations on the subject of business and the cloud. Eleven business will present benefits of Open Source business solutions to decision makers including John Jackson, Camden Council CIO, Chris Farthing of the British Chamber of...