This article is an addition to my speak at the LibreOffice Conference in Aarhus. You can find the introduction here: http://conference.libreoffice.org/2015/the-program/talks/migration-user-experi...
http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2015/09/templates-avoid-pitfalls.html
Styles are much more than defining the look and feel of text in a paragraph. Its almost everything about how paragraphs behave in the context. A Paragraph style for example defines how words are ...
http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2015/09/something-about-styles.html
Styles are much more than defining the look and feel of text in a paragraph. Its almost everything about how paragraphs behave in the context. A Paragraph style for example defines how words are ...
http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2015/07/something-about-styles-in-libreoffice.html
This weekend I was contacted by my good friend Ove Larsen, from the organization FAIR, that are currently working in Malawi to prepare computers for use in high schools. Computers that are dispos...
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http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2015/02/is-libreoffice-better-than-competitor.html
Since Google announced their new so called support for the open standard for documents; odf, there has been a lot of fuzz. And yesterday when the new version of Google Docs and Drive, there has b...
http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2014/12/fuzz-about-google-supporting-odf.html
p { margin-bottom: 7pt; line-height: 120%; }a:link { } When your organization is migrating from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice its important that you provide the users with some good and robust ...
http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2014/12/making-good-and-solid-templates.html
Some years ago I developed an extension for LibreOffice for direct search for clip art from www.openclipart.org. I have recently been working on a new version that use a new OpenClipart API. Plea...
http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2014/12/please-help-with-testing.html
I have written quite a few articles about installation and administration of LibreOffice on Windows. My latest post was an update on the installation parameters (read it here: http://lodahl.blogs...
http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2014/10/managing-settings-on-windows.html
pre.cjk { font-family: "Courier New",monospace; }p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 120%; }a:link { } One of many advantages of open source projects is for sure the eternal transition and ev...
http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2014/09/silent-installation-on-windows-again.html
p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 120%; } This proposal has been said many times over the last couple of years and lately repeated by Daniel Brunner, head of the IT department of Switzerlan...
http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2014/09/apache-open-office-and-libreoffice.html
p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 120%; }a:link { } I have been fooling around for a couple of days. Yes I admit it. From time to time I enjoy working with something totally different...
http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2013/12/i-have-been-fooling-around.html
p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 120%; }a:link { } LibreOffice is using a XML based document format so of cause there is a built in XML parser. But until now it has been quite cumbersome t...
http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2013/12/libreoffice-now-has-built-in-xml-parser.html
How to take advantage of crowd sourcing and contribute too: I'm looking forward to my vacation starting two days from now. My wife and I are happy to see southern Spain. We will rent a car in the...
What started as a simple text editor and later became am office suite is actually becoming a very comprehensive set of tools for the daily office work. LibreOffice is most likely the only applica...
http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2013/07/libreoffice-is-becoming-swiss-army.html
I wrote about embedding of fonts in this blogpost: http://lodahl.blogspot.dk/2013/06/libreoffice-41-most-important-new.html The embedded fonts will most likely result in better interoperability w...
http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2013/06/best-new-feature-in-libreoffice-41.html
In an earlier post (http://lodahl.blogspot.dk/2013/05/exiting-new-design-initiative.html) I wrote about the new design features that will be exposed as experimental feature in LibreOffice 4.1. Am...
http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2013/06/libreoffice-41-most-important-new.html
Through out the last couple of years we have seem quite a few suggestions to a new and more modern look and feel for LibreOffice. Some of these initiatives has already found its way into the prod...
http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2013/05/exiting-new-design-initiative.html
I have been discussing the subject before and now I just want to tell about our progress. We have managed to use the Task pane to show the dialog so from now the feature is no longer in the Inser...
http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2013/02/openclipartorg-in-libreoffice-part-2.html
Recently I made a small demonstration of how to use LibreOffice with CMIS. Now I have also made a video of how to use LibreOffice with WebDAV. In this demonstration I'm using my ownCloud server o...
http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2013/02/libreoffice-and-webdav.html
Some time ago I wrote about our plans to intergrate OpenClipart.org API in LibreOffice. You can read that post here: http://lodahl.blogspot.dk/2013/01/libreoffice-and-openclipartorg.html&nbs...
If you look around on Youtube and other video repositories you will find that many tutorials are available for open source projects. I my self learned Gimp qiute fast using these small videos. Ma...
http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2013/02/video-tutorials-and-promotions.html
Here you can see a short video demonstration of how CMIS integration works in LibreOffice 4.0:
http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2013/02/libreoffice-and-cmis.html
For several years I have been very fond of clip arts from the Open Clipart Library (OCAL) and when LibreOffice now has built in usage of SVG files I was very happy. Now I could use these exelent ...
http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2013/01/libreoffice-and-openclipartorg.html
Some time ago I wrote a few articles about administrative installation of LibreOffice on Windows. I have had quite a lot of feedback. Later there has come a wiki page on The Document Foundation w...