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Here we update you on the status of the work, and what needs to be done.

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The code needs to be prepared for M1, step by step. This of course means work for Collabora’s LibreOffice team too. Version 7.1.1 solves the “blur” problem.It is always an exciting time to see freshly minted ARM based silicon arriving in the form of Apple’s massive shift to the ARM based M1.I copied the entire “jdk1.8.0_25.jdk” directory (it sits in /Library/Java/) to may main machine, selected it, and it worked… (with the blur problem, but thaty’s a known issue and arduously being worked upon). So I went back to my main machine, and found that 7.0.3 still complained about Java “incomplete”. On another machine LibreOffice 7.0.3 worked right away after I selected Java “jdk1.8.0_25.jdk”.

Based on a tip here by Jean, #77, thank you! “AppleFontSmoothing” enables subpixel font rendering on non-Apple LCDs, from none (0) over light (1) to heavy (3).

in version 6.4.7 the blurry font rendering is improved (though still not perfect) by entering this terminal command:ĭefaults -currentHost write -g AppleFontSmoothing -int 0Īnd restarting LibreOffice.

In principle migrating to LibreOffice is successful for now and works on several machines, prompting me to write this blog entry.

For that I had to fire up Word one last (?) time – it greeted me with “Licence has expired” but did what I needed to do.

At least after I switched “Store Citations as:” to “Bookmarks”.

Yes, Zotero references management works, lo!.

Good enough for me, this also has the blur problem, never mind.

Solution: delete latest LibreOffice, go back to version 6.4.7 (labled as “stable”).

Installed latest version played in the terminal with $JAVA_HOME etc… LOOONG story… no dice. Oh my, hours pass by… I find that LibreOffice actually does not need JRE (Java Runtime Environment) but rather the JDK (Java Development Kit). Now LibreOffice complained “selected JRE is defective…”. However, on installing the plugin errors occur.

Ok, so I read that Zotero can work together with LibreOffice, great.

That’s a great system which I’ve been using for a decade and wrote about, if now a little outdated.

Next problem: for references management, I use Zotero.

I can live with it, since on paper submission I add the images separately anyway.

Starting on a new paper I find that inserting PDFs into a document ends up in poor quality not only on screen (known from Word), but also on printing.

This is only a slight inconvenience and being worked upon, I understand (see below).

After migrating to MacOS “Big Sur” the text looks blurry.

It’s also a good Excel replacement for my needs (Excel is not a scientific tool, but good for intermediate data organisation).

I found that “Track changes” sits under Edit and works fine with colleagues.

It feels very much like Word (for what that’s worth :).

It is possible to set DOCX in the preferendes as default for saving.

I installed version 7.0.3, worked great (seemingly :).

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Second: TL DR… just install the latest “stable” LibreOffice and you should be fine….

First I would like to thank the many programmers who work, or have been working on it!.

So here I am logging my LibreOffice experiences.

Accompanying an exodus of programmers it forked to LibreOffice.

A laudable effort, partially corrupted by Oracle, but recovering. But it cannot default to it, and the compatibility, especially when it comes to collaborative writing, is not perfect. This Microsoft has contrived to be accepted as a standard. For writing collaborative papers, however, the lowest possible denominator would be Word, or the DOCX format.

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On a Mac you have the free Pages.app which is, among many other things, good at layouting. There are many many ways to write manuscripts, for instance I recently learned Pandoc for a book. I hate subscriptions (would rather pay for unlimited, and then renew every ≈3 years or so), and considered alternatives. My subscription to Microsoft Office ran out.

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