Tag: LibreOffice
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The War for Your Documents: Why The Document Foundation is Challenging Microsoft’s OOXML Monopoly
The Document Foundation (TDF), the steward of the open-source office suite LibreOffice, has long been embroiled in an irreconcilable conflict with Microsoft regarding document interoperability. The heart of this contention lies in the divergence of their formatting standards: while TDF prioritizes standards emphasizing open compatibility, Microsoft leverages the proprietary Office Open XML (OOXML) format within…
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LibreOffice Alert: Two Critical Vulnerabilities Threaten User Security
LibreOffice, the popular free and open-source office suite, has recently been patched for two critical vulnerabilities that could put user data at risk. CVE-2023-6185 and CVE-2023-6186 vulnerabilities could allow attackers to gain control of your system or execute malicious code. These vulnerabilities were discovered by security researcher Reginaldo Silva of ubercomp.com. Vulnerability 1: Improper Input…
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LibreOffice merges initial support for compilation to WebAssembly
LibreOffice has incorporated initial support for EmScripten-based cross-compilation and compilation to WebAssembly (WASM) for execution in a browser or possibly a portable way to run on the desktop, such as Wasmer. At present, some of the WASM commits have been merged into LibreOffice. This document outlines the involved WASM construction steps. In addition, a simple…
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Document Foundation set up a dedicated developers team to improve LibreOffice support for PPT/PPTX
The Document Foundation recently announced that it will deploy new teams from the existing LibreOffice community to improve support for PPT and PPTX (PowerPoint) file formats. The current open-source office suite has performed very well in rendering Microsoft Office files, but there are still some problems. For this reason, the Document Foundation has set up…