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![]() LibreOffice Writer 7.2.4 (released in December 2021, running on Linux and KDE Plasma 5 with the Breeze icon set) | |
Developer(s) | The Document Foundation |
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Preview release(s) | |
Operating system | Cross platform |
Predecessor | OpenOffice.org Writer |
Type | Word processor |
License | MPLv2.0 (secondary license GPL,LGPLv3+ or Apache License 2.0) [4] |
Website | libreoffice |
LibreOffice Writer is the free and open-source word processor and desktop publishing component of the LibreOffice suite and is a fork of OpenOffice.org Writer. Writer is a word processor similar to Microsoft Word and Corel's WordPerfect with many similar features,and file format compatibility. [5] [6]
LibreOffice Writer is released under the Mozilla Public License v2.0. [4]
As with the entire LibreOffice suite,Writer can be used across a variety of platforms,including Linux,FreeBSD,macOS and Microsoft Windows. There are community builds for many other platforms. Ecosystem partner Collabora uses LibreOffice upstream code and provides apps for Android,iOS,iPadOS and ChromeOS. [7] [8] LibreOffice Online is an online office suite which includes the applications Writer,Calc and Impress and provides an upstream for projects such as commercial Collabora Online.
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will set the font to stylistic set 6 and chose character variant 3. This is based on the same syntax for Graphite font feature.File format | Extension | Read/Write | Notes |
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AbiWord | ABW,ZABW | From 4.2 | |
AppleWorks (word processing) | CWK | From 4.1 | Formerly called ClarisWorks |
Apple Pages | PAGES | From 5.0 | |
AportisDoc (Palm) | PDB | Yes | Requires Java |
BroadBand eBook | LRF | Yes | |
DocBook | XML | Yes | |
FictionBook | FB2 | From 4.2 | |
Hangul WP 97 | HWP | Yes | Newer "5.x" documents are not supported[ citation needed ] |
HTML | HTM,HTML | Yes | |
Ichitaro 8/9/10/11 | JTD,JTT | Yes | |
Lotus Word Pro | LWP | Yes | |
MacWrite Pro 1.5 | MW,MCW | From 4.1 | |
Microsoft Pocket Word | PSW | Yes | Requires Java |
Microsoft RTF | RTF | Yes | |
Microsoft Word 2003 XML (WordprocessingML) | XML | Yes | |
Microsoft Word 4/5/6.0/95 | DOC,DOT | Yes,writing up to 3.6 | |
Microsoft Word 97–2003 | DOC,DOT | Yes | |
Microsoft Word 2007-now | DOCX,DOTX,DOCM, DOTM | Yes | |
Microsoft Works (word processing) | WPS,WPT | Yes | Microsoft Works for Mac formats since 4.1 |
Microsoft Write | WRI | From 5.1 | |
OpenDocument (word processing) | ODT,FODT,OTT, | Yes | |
OpenOffice.org XML (word processing) | SXW,STW | Yes | |
Plain text | TXT | Yes | Various encodings supported |
Software602 (T602) | 602,TXT | Yes | |
StarOffice StarWriter 3/4/5 | SDW,SGL,VOR | Dropped in 4.0 then added back in 5.3, up to 3.6[ clarification needed ] | |
Unified Office Format (word processing) | UOT | Yes | |
WordPerfect | WPD | Yes | |
WordPerfect Suite 2000/Office 1.0 | WPS | Yes | |
WriteNow 4.0 | WN,NX^D | From 4.1 |
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