LibreOffice Writer 5.1 with Breeze toolbar icon set
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Developer(s) | The Document Foundation |
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Development status | Active |
Operating system | Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows |
Type | Word processor |
License | MPLv2.0 (secondary license GPL, LGPLv3+ or Apache License 2.0) |
Website | www.libreoffice.org |
LibreOffice Writer is the free and open-source word processor component of the LibreOffice software package and is a fork of OpenOffice.org Writer. Writer is a word processor similar to Microsoft Word and Corel's WordPerfect, with some identical features.
LibreOffice Writer is released under the Mozilla Public License v2.0.
As with the entire LibreOffice suite, Writer can be used across a variety of platforms, including Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows.
Writer is capable of opening and saving documents in a number of formats, including the Open Document Format 1.2 Extended (ODT is its default format), Microsoft Word's DOC, DOCX, RTF and XHTML.
Writer provides a number of features, such as the inclusion of a mechanism for predictive writing and the ability to export to PDF format.
Features include:
Versions for LibreOffice Writer include the following: