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 About LibreOffice
About The Document Foundation
The Document Foundation has the mission of facilitating the evolution of the OpenOffice.org free office suite into a new, open, independent, and meritocratic organization within the next few months. An independent Foundation is a better reflection of the values of our contributors, users and supporters, and will enable a more effective, efficient and transparent community. TDF will protect past investments by building on the achievements of the first decade, will encourage wide participation within the community, and will co-ordinate activity across the community.
Notice: Oracle Inc. who purchased Sun Microsystems, inherited the OpenOffice.org office suite in the deal. Recently, Oracle donated the original OpenOffice.org program code to The Apache Software Foundation. It is unknown if Apache will re-release the program as Apache OpenOffice or when. The TDF and the LibreOffice community would like to send best regards to Apache and Good Luck with their new project. There are on going talks about collaboration between Apache and the TDF, but nothing definite has been decided. Mean while, the TDF and the LibreOffice community will push on to continue building the best free office production suite on the planet.
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Press and Media Contacts
We have a dedicated group of press contacts who are happy to answer your questions about The Document Foundation and LibreOffice.
Florian Effenberger (based near Munich, Germany, UTC+1)
Phone: +49 8341 99660880
Mobile: +49 151 14424108
E-mail: [email protected]
Skype: floeff
Olivier Hallot (based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, UTC-3)
Mobile: +55 21 88228812
E-mail: [email protected]
Charles H. Schulz (based in Paris, France, UTC+1)
Phone: +39 02 320621813
Mobile: +33 6 98655424
E-mail: [email protected]
Italo Vignoli (based in Milan, Italy, UTC+1)
Mobile: +39 348 5653829
E-mail: [email protected]
Skype: italovignoli
Google Talk: [email protected]
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LibreOffice Help, Training and Tutorials
The LibreOffice Suite description.
"LibreOffice is a fully-featured open-source office productivity suite available as a free download for all major platforms. Supported languages are added as fast as they can be translated. LibreOffice is developed, supported, and promoted by an international community of volunteers.
LibreOffice is a FREE office suite that can create, edit and save in many document formats including Microsoft Office, Word Perfect, Lotus and other office applications that support (ODF) the open document format. Libreoffice will also open your old MS Works files. Export your documents as Adobe .pdf in one step.
Operating Systems
- Windows
- Linux 32bit - deb or rpm
- Linux 64bit - deb or rpm
- Mac OS X
This suite is amazing, it is compatible with most office document types. I have Microsoft Office 2003 and I don't use it since I downloaded LibreOffice Suite. As an example, LibreOffice Writer will open these file formats:
*.txt *.doc *.rtf *.sdw *.odt *.html *.css *.xml *.eml
and almost any other known text format.
LibreOffice Writer will save in these file formats:
- Microsoft Word 97/2000/XP (.doc)
- Microsoft Word 95 (.doc)
- Microsoft Word 6.0 (.doc)
- Rich Text Format (.rtf)
- Star Writer 3.0/4.0/50 (.sdw)
- Text or encoded Text (.txt)
- HTML (.html)
- DocBook (.xml)
- Microsoft Word 2003 xml (.xml)
- Microsoft Word 2003 xml (.docx)
- Office Open XML Text (.docx)
- Open Document Text (.odt)
Not to mention that almost any document can be exported as Adobe .PDF.
Applications Included:
The suite contains a text editor (Writer), spreadsheet editor (Calc), a presentation creator (Impress), a Math function creator (Math), a very easy to use data base application (Base) and (Draw) is a powerful tool for technical drawings, general posters, and much more. LibreOffice has all of the features of Microsoft Office and is easier to use. I really can't say enough good things about this suite.
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