Some documents deserve extra attention to design and typographic detail.

The Apache Software Foundation considers retiring OpenOffice

Every hour of the work day, hundreds of presenters begin a slide show – and, as the presenters begin to drone, thousands of listeners lean back and do their best to stay awake and not look bored. Just as many users of word processors fail to learn how to use them properly, very few presenters ever learn a way to create a slide that holds an audience’s interest or conveys information successfully.

With the advent of free software for non-programmers, users ran into a licensing dilemma in a world of proprietary fonts.

Krita, a free sketching and painting program, has new features and improvements in version 3.0.

Integrate graphical information beside the data it represents with conditional formatting and sparklines.

With a little planning and a few LibreOffice tricks, you can create one document that contains text customized for various end users.

LibreOffice Writer is a serviceable desktop publisher with more typography features than most users imagine.