Loftwings and Demons

Sometime I really want to talk about how LibreOffice handles images, which reaches true heights of absurdity in that the default image handling is just--so bad. The good news is that the most egregrious image problems you encounter in LibreOffice are quite fixable. However, its lack of absolute precision can still be an issue for images in certain circumstances. The thing to keep in mind though is that no matter what contortions Writer subjects your images to, you can always undo the horrors because Writer never discards anything from the original image.

So, today, I found out something extremely interesting: there's a free and open source Android and iOS office app! It's from Collabora office and you can read more about it from here:

Collabora Office Android and iOS app

Also, on desktop computers I use LibreOffice, which works very well for me, but recently found out that OpenOffice, the software it was forked from, despite receiving regular updates from the Apache Foundation, has been an essentially dead project for nearly a decade. The Tumblr thread below explains what happened in more detail:

https://www.tumblr.com/penrosesun/716612136959426560/github-apacheopenoffice-apache-openoffice?source=share

Basically, if you've found that OpenOffice doesn't adequately serve your office software needs but haven't tried LibreOffice, you may want to give LibreOffice a try since it's way better now than it's predecessor is.