Desktop Publishing News and Articles
Zotero and LibreOffice
A Better Tool for Bibliographies
If you’re working with LibreOffice and need to create a bibliography, this software makes it simple to manage your citations.
Write a Novel with Open Source Tools
First Draft
If you are looking for an open source tool to help you write your next novel, bibisco, ManusKript, and Plume Creator can help you get started.
Making PDFs More Secure in LibreOffice Writer
PDF Security
Depending on your needs, LibreOffice Writer offers varying degrees of security for PDFs.
Ebooks Almost from Scratch
Makeshift ebook tool chain
While no single tool for ebook creation exists, you can combine LibreOffice, Calibre, and some manual editing of CSS tags to produce your own ebook.
PDF Types in LibreOffice
Custom Export
With LibreOffice, you can customize the way you export PDFs.
LibreOffice Writer Versus LaTeX
Different Means to a Similar End
LibreOffice Writer and LaTeX both have their strengths and weaknesses, but at the end of the day they both produce high quality results.
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