LibreOffice
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LibreOffice is an office suite available on many platforms and compatible with major office suites, including Microsoft Office. In November 2010, a number of developers who objected to the exclusive and passive support and unilateral policy-making of Oracle, the corporate sponsor of OpenOffice, broke away from Oracle and founded The Document Foundation, and then forked OpenOffice 3.3.0 to begin developing LibreOffice.
Novell, Google and others welcomed the founding of the new foundation and the development of LibreOffice, and Canonical, the developer of Ubuntu, supports the development team. Starting in the first half of 2011, many Linux distributions, including Ubuntu, have shipped LibreOffice instead of OpenOffice as their default office software.
The suite consists of Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Base, and Math.
Extensions
- H2ORestart - LibreOffice extension for editing HWP and HWPX documents
Convert PDF to MS-Office
libreoffice --headless --invisible --convert-to pdf DOCFile.doc
libreoffice --headless --invisible --convert-to pdf PPTXFile.pptx
libreoffice --headless --invisible --convert-to pdf XLSXFile.xlsx