Translation ; Recent Information about LibreOffice

1Open Source Conference 2015 Kansai @ Kyoto / 2015.8.8

Recent Information about LibreOffice / Better Manners with your LibreOffice

Open Source Conference 2015 Kansai @ KyotoAugust 8th, 2015Masataka Kondo / Rin Nakamura


Time Table of This Seminar

Two presenter are going to talk about each topic.

11:00 〜 11:15 / Part 1 “Recent Information about LibreOffice”

by Masataka Kondo

11:15 〜 11:45 / Part 2“Better Manners with your LibreOffice”

by Rin Nakamura


Part 1 : Recent Information about LibreOffice

Masataka Kondo LibreOffice Japanese Team


Agenda

What Is “LibreOffice” ?The Three distinctions of LibreOfficeRecent Topics (Mac App Store, Android Viewer)

About LibreOffice 5.0, The Newest VersionNew features with LibreOffice 5.0 (excerption)Community meetings to release 5.0Forecast features to be implemented from GSoC2015

Feature Schedule in this yearOpen Source Conferences, Hackfest … etc.Advice : To get better efforts with our activities


What Is LibreOffice?

Open Source Licensed “Office Suite”.Not only Word-processor, Spreadseat.It includes Presentation tool, Draw tool, Database.


1 : Running on Multiple Archtectures

It has Same features on Windows / Mac OS X / Linux

Windows

Linux

Mac OS X


2 : Devleoped by Community-based

Rapid bug fix : The fastest, in a few hours.Time-base Release : minor update in every month,Major updates will be released twice in a year.


Native-Lang Projects

51 projects in http://www.libreoffice.org/community/nlc/

http://www.libreoffice.org/community/nlc/


3 : Int'l Standard Document Format : ODF

It was standardized on 2005, based on OpenOffice.org file format.It is used for official documents on this format in someOrganizations. (e.g. Aizu-Wakamatsu city, Tokushima pref.)Some cities in Europe have provided ODF as standard file format.

ODF is ZIP archived XML document.LibreOffice, Apache OpenOffice, etc. use ODF as default.And some other softwares (include MS Office) can read /write ODF.Translation is available by external softwares (e.g. Pandoc, Sphinx, etc.)


Documentation Liberation Project

Salvage “Ancient” documents by ODF, We can use them eternally.


LibreOffice Vanilla / LibreOffice-from-Collabora

We can get them from Mac App Store (from Jun. 18, 2015)Long-term support with freezed source code.


LibreOffice : about Android version

Now under developmentsee https://libreoffice-from-collabora.com/android-editor-prototype/

LibreOffice Viewer has been released on May 28, 2015.

https://libreoffice-from-collabora.com/android-editor-prototype/


New Features about LibreOffice 5.0

LibreOffice 5.0 has been released on Aug. 5, 2015!!

Features :

Windows 64bit Build is now available.Picked up features are written from next page :


Changes you can find easily

New Theme “Breeze” (Default selection on Mac OS X)Novel color palette with Writer / Calc


Check it out when you run LibreOffice

Design of splash screen has been changed.


“Emoji” : an application of auto-correct

Some word fetched in two colons changes into an “Emoji”.

(1) Imput “:sushi:” with Writer

The word changes into “sus”

(2) and imput “:penguin:”

The word changes into “pen”


How to learn “Emoji” autocorrection rules

Tools – Autocorrect Options… – English(USA)


Cropping Images with your mouse

On Writer/Calc, Pasted image can be cropped with mouse.


Sample Image of cropping

Thick corner border shows in cropping mode :


Our Activities to release, in “Beta” era

Organized 3 times of Bug Hunting Sessions in May – June.(May 24 : Chiba,Nagoya / May 31 and June 20 : Osaka)

Photo courtesy by S.Ishikawa


To get better Translation

We had organized “Translation Review Sprint” on July 26.

Photo courtesy by S.Enoki (both of two photos)


Forecast features from GSoC2015

Search “LibreOffice” on Google Summer of Code 201512 Projects have been adopted (2014 : 10 Projects)


Adopted Projects on GSoC 2015

Implement Apple Numbers import filterImproving Automated Error CheckingRework the Expert Configuration dialogHaskell UNO Language BindingCleanup internal drawing units in CalcDynamic Text Chaining and Hyphenation in DrawReuse Mozilla's rolling update mechanism for LibreOfficeFinishing integration of Firebird backendIntegrate gtktiledviewer into GNOME-DocumentsReview of the sidebar & its functionalityImprove user experience with CMISMore and Better Tests


Prospective Schedule :

We're going to attend events written below :Aug. 22 : LibreOffice Hackfest in Kansai at Umeda, OsakaSept. 5 : Open Source Conference NiigataSept. 19 : Open Source Conference HiroshimaSept 23-25 : LibreOffice Conference 2015 in Aarhus, DKOct. 3 : Open Source Conference FukuokaOct. 24-25 : Open Source Conference Tokyo / FallNov. 6-7 : Kansi Open Forum, at Osaka ATC

additional information will be released at a future date.


LibreOffice Hackfest in Kansai

http://libojapan.connpass.com/event/18559/Date : 8/22 14:00 〜 20:00Place : GMO Yours, Grand Front Osaka 23F Introduction of Easy Hack, Building LibreOfficeSource Code Reading, and so on


To get Better Efforts from Our Activities

We recommend these two actions, to be much effective.

1 : Setting up Virtual Machines on your PC.You will need change language environment to report bugs.You'll feel convinience with LibreOffice runs on multiple OS.

2 : Challenge Build of LibreOfficeOne theme of Hackfest on August 22nd.Procedure, Tips will introduce on future OSCs.(We will write Seminar Presentations of these themes.)


We recommend to set up Virtual Machines

English environment is recommended to report bug, etc.Linux can change languages without reboot.Modern PCs have enough performance to setup VTs.

(An Example of Bug Report)

Title : Writer crashes when push “Navigator” button with “Gallery” opened.

Build 5.0, with Linux Mint 17.1(64bit)

(1) Open Writer(2) Open “Gallery” from sidebar(3) Push “Navigator” button(4) Writer is crashed.

This crashing was also represented with both of MacOS 10.10, Windows/64bit.


Benefits from Building LibreOffice

As increasing people who can build LibreOffice, we will get benefits written below :

Procedure to build will be easier than current version.Tools easily obtainable will be ruled.Automated configuration, setup, etc.

Customized by people who can read sources.Much characterization will be realized on each distributions.Bug fix will be faster than now.

A Few hours compilation will be built it. Let's Try!


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