Master Document Templates

Writer has long had Master Documents. A master document lets you manage large documents, such as a book with many chapters. One odt per chapter, bundled into a single document via a master odm

LibreOffice 4.4 introduces Master Document Templates. What that means is that these Master Document Templates can be added to the Template Manager and from there you can create a new Master Document (odm) based on a Master Document Template (otm). The new odm of course having the same initial content as the Template it is based upon.

Thanks to Máirín Duffy (of Red Hat, Inc.) for prompting this feature. Any failures in execution are mine however.

More Font Support

Playing around with some Mac OS X fonts under Linux I noticed that LibreOffice wasn't listing a lot of them despite fontconfig announcing their existence. A little digging and some very small tweaks means that we now have mac ttf fontname encoding support along with support for version 2 ttc fonts. This is more fixing some oversights (version 2 of ttc came into existence after the ttc support was added so there was a "only if version is 1" condition) than implementing anything particularly new, but now LibreOffice under Linux works with a lot more ttf/ttc/otf fonts than it did before.

change image option in writer context menu

Change Image in Writer

Thanks to Jennifer Liebel, writer now has a change image option in its graphic context menu like Impress/Draw.

aarch64 libreoffice

Thanks to Stephen Bergmann of Red Hat, Inc. LibreOffice is now ported to aarch64. No new ports for years, and then two 64bit ports landed within a week of aarch64 and ppc64le.