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We released the first beta of Fidus Writer in 2012. Ten years later, multiple research universities, publishers, libraries, and individual academics are using it as part of their publication workflows. Long-form text writing tools take a lot of work: Book writers update and amend their texts for years or decades. The tools they are using… read more |
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The Open Journal Systems (OJS) is probably the most widely used open source management system for academic journals as it handles the peer review process. When we started Fidus Writer 10 years ago, OJS was one of the first systems we tried to connect with. Over the years this integration improved and has now reached… read more |
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We have released Fidus Writer 3.10! There are tons of features and bug fixes. The two most significant new features are likely folders to organize your documents and books and the downloadable document templates. Read the full changelog for details. The folder feature and better support for document and book sharing were sponsored by the Open… read more |
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The cold season has arrived in Europe, and we have been back behind our home office desks, getting another Fidus Writer version ready for release. Fidus Writer 3.9 is packed with features and fixes. Let’s look at three features that stand out: Merging offline edits Letting users go offline and come back online without ever losing their work is a… read more |
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It has been about half a year and we are ready with a new release. Fidus Writer 3.8 continues to bring a number of new features. Try Fidus Writer 3.8 out on FidusWriter.com or install it as a snap on your own Linux computer. And let us know in our forum what you think about… read more |
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In recent years Fidus Writer development has been rather fast. We worked on many features we felt we needed to implement to make it usable first, so we did not focus much on other aspects. With Fidus Writer 3.7 we have reached a level of completeness and stability that we now are able to focus… read more |
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Fidus Writer 3.7 is finally there – and it’s packed with features. There is an invitation system, there is Epub 3.0 compliance, there is access to 2000+ citation styles, and Fidus Writer 3.7 is a Single Page App and a Progressive Web App (PWA)… read all about it in the full change log. One of the… read more |
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It has been half a year since we released Fidus Writer 3.5, and 3.6 is really feature packed. Let’s look at some of the main additions. Hosted accounts After many years of running a test server at https://app.fiduswriter.org we have now decided that Fidus Writer has reached a level where we can charge for hosting and we… read more |
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Fidus Writer 3.5 has finally arrived and it brings with it a number of features that will be really important to most writers. The top three new features are: Track Changes: Finally you can make change suggestions rather than making all your changes become part of the document immediately. The feature works the same way as they… read more |
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With version 3.5, Fidus Writer is switching to Vivliostyle for PDF generation. Vivliostyle is a Japan-based open source project to do PDF rendering using browser technology. The main person behind Vivliostyle is Shinyu Murakami from the northern Japanese town of Sendai, now living with his wife, a speech therapist and book author, in Saitama near… read more |