LibreOffice is a free and open-source office suite. It includes word processing, spreadsheet, presentation and drawing applications. Collabora provides enterprise-level support and services for LibreOffice. They have expertise in OpenDocument and Microsoft OOXML formats. Open Canarias partners with Collabora to provide multi-level support for LibreOffice to customers as an alternative to proprietary office suites.

1. LibreOffice - Collabora
Salvador González
Junio 2014

2. LibreOffice
• Fully featured Office suite
• Second-to-none file support
• Open Source / Open Standards
• Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Base
• The Document Foundation (non-
profit)
• ~75 million users and growing
• 2,000+ software commits per month

3. Supporters of LibreOffice the
Advisory Board

4. Collabora
• Collabora Ltd.
– Leading Open Source Consultancy
– 8 years of experience. 90+ People.
• Collabora Productivity Ltd.
– Dedicated to Enterprise LibreOffice
– Provides Level-3 support (code issues) to
all LibreOffice clients
– Architects of Microsoft OpenXML filters

5. Open Canarias and Collabora
• Open Canarias have been working with OpenOffice and
LibreOffice as an alternative to MSOffice for more than 5
years; doing complex technical documents, presentations,
comercial documents, etc.. The results has been more than
satisfactory.
• Collabora and Open Canarias partnership brings customers
and alternative to MSOffice contracts by adding services to
help the end user. Something that Microsoft doesn't do!.
• LibreOffice is one of the fundamentals points to adopt Open
Source software as a business solution to the enterprise.
• Collabora provides Level-3 support. Open Canarias
provides Level-1 and Level-2 support.

6. Breadth of contribution:
LibreOffice vs OpenOffice
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Comparitive Trend of Active Developers
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Numberofactivecodecontributorsinmonth

7. Supported / Enterprise
• Regression Tested and Hardened
– Enterprise builds for Win/Linux/OSX
– Long-Term-Support model (3 years)
• Stability & Security updates (Win msp)
– Level 3 Contracts (code support)
• Bug-fix annual entitlement packets
– Windows Group Policy Object mgmt

8. Community vs Enterprise
Version Community Enterprise Hardened
Deployed Patching None
Stability & Security
(.msp patches for Win)
Long-Term-Support
None
new version
every 6 months
Customer Installed
version
is supported for a
minimum 3 years
Customer Level 3
Code Support on
SLA
None
~€3.6k /ticket
annual contract
Bespoke Coding None
*Feature &
Interoperability
development is available
* All software development work is ultimately provided back to the community project

9. Compatibility: Systems

10. Compatibility: MSOffice 2013
LibreOffice and MSOffice2013 can read and write
doc, docx, xls, xlsx, ppt, pps, pptx
LibreOffice and MSOffice2013 can read and write ODF (Open Document Format)
files
but the MSOffice2013 default is to save in its own 'Transitional' OOXML
LibreOffice can directly export a Hybrid PDF file, MSOffice2013 cannot
(a Hybrid PDF has an embedded ODF for full editing)
LibreOffice can read MS Visio and MS Publisher files into its applications
for MS Visio in MSOffice2013 you need buy the separate MS Visio

11. Compatibility: Legacy
• LibreOffice can read (MSOffice2013 cannot)
– MS WinWord 5,
– MS Word 6.0,
– MS Word 95
• LibreOffice can open some MS password protected files (Weak XOR, Office
97/2000)
– Word 6.0,
– Word 95/97,
– Word 2000,
– Word XP,
– Word 2003
– Excel 2.1, 3, 4, 5,
– Excel 95/97,
– Excel 2000, Excel XP, Excel 2003

12. Compatibility: macros
• MSOffice calls their version of Basic, VBA
(Visual Basic for Applications)
• LibreOffice uses Basic
• LibreOffice choices when opening an
MSOffice file containing VBA macros:
• MSOffice can't handle other files' macros
Run LibreOffice can run some Excel Visual Basic scripts
Preserve Edit the file contents but leave the macro unaltered
Delete Open the document and delete the macro
Edit Revise the VBA to LO Basic in the provided editor

13. Compatibility with other
formats
• Import & Export Unified Office Format text
• Import & Export AportisDoc (Palm), PocketWord documents
• Import & Export Lotus WordPro, Lotus 1-2-3, Quattro Pro 6, Pocket
Excel
• Import AbiWord files
• Import of eBook formats:
– FictionBook 2.0, BroadBand, Plucker (Palm), eReader (Palm), zTXT (Palm),
TealDoc, (Palm), PalmDoc (Palm)
• Import of legacy Mac OS word processing documents:
– MS Word for Mac (1-5.1), MS Works for Mac (1-4), ClarisWorks/AppleWorks,
Write Now, MacWriteII/MacWritePro, DOCMaker 4, FullWrite Professional,
HanMac Word-K/J, LightWayText for Mac 4.5, Mariner Write Mac Classic 1.6-
3.5, MindWriteDocument, Nisus Writer Mac Classic 3.4-6.5,
TeachText/SimpleText 1, Tex-Edit 2,WriterPlus, Z-Write 1.3, eDOC 2, Acta
Mac Classic, BeagleWorks/WordPerfect Works 1,GreatWorks, MacDoc 1,
MoreMac 2-3

14. Recent additions to LibreOffice
since forging ahead from OpenOffice
• Improved Microsoft Office interoperability
– round-tripping 'foreign' properties for improved OOXML
↔ OOXML fidelity
– Agile encryption support
• Spreadsheet:
– Significant performance & memory usage improvements
– OpenCL / GPU based calculation
– Many more formulae supported
– Much improved charting
• Apple 'Keynote' import filter
• Content Management Interoperability Services compliance
allows integration with CMS/DMS como SharePoint Server
2013; Alfresco; Nuxeo; etc.

15. Now in LibreOffice (not in OO)
Apple Keynote Import Import/Export nested comments
Send merge mails with images in HTML Format one or more characters with a border

16. Now in LibreOffice (not in OO)
Sidebar with resizeable layout Stepped lines in Calc
Images can be rotated Textframes support background gradients

17. Now in LibreOffice (not in OO)
• Numerous improvements to interoperability with Microsoft's
DOCX
– Preserve Smart-Art information
– Solid page background color
– Correct page border margins
– Different Odd & Even page
– Preserve rotation information on bitmaps.
– OOXML floating table improvements.
• Support for the default Microsoft Office 2010 and 2013 Agile
decrypt
• Support for OOXML encryption

18. Bespoke Development: docx –
range comments

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