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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 |
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Juan Carlos has installed Fidus Writer on a Raspberry Pi for his personal use. Read all about it in this interview! |
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The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect in the European Union at the end of May. This required us to release a new version of Fidus Writer (3.4) that makes it possible to run the website in a GDPR-compliant manner. Tracked changes Unfortunately, the main new feature we have been working on over… read more |
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Most of the presentations we do are with potential users of Fidus Writer. But it is a software project, and sometimes it can be helpful to get the input of other developers on some things. For example, we have created our own library to deal with combining code that works on the client’s computer and… read more |
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Years ago we tried running email lists, slack and bb-forum and none of that worked at the time. We gave up back then, but over the past few months we have received so much individual email from users about possible features and what direction Fidus Writer is heading in, that I decided that it may… read more |
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Fidus Writer was present at this year’s Force 2017 conference in Berlin with a presentation about how to make software for scholars sustainable and what needs to happen for academic people to adopt open source editors. Particularly, the move from Chilean startup funding in the period 2012 to funding for academic research through the German… read more |
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Fidus Writer 3.3 is here, and it’s packed with new features as well of tons of bug fixes. Some highlights: Images and citations are now stored in documents. When you collaborate with others on a document, you will have access to the images and citations stored in that document plus those stored in your own… read more |
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It has been half a year, and here we are with yet another release! As always, there are tons of fixes all over the place. You can try it out on our server at https://app.fiduswriter.org. Also, GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences in Cologne, Germany has set up a Fidus Writer instance for production use… read more |
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Scholarly document creation continues to face various obstacles. Scholarly text production requires more complex word processors than other forms of texts because of the complex structures of citations, formulas and figures. The need for peer review, often single-blind or double-blind, creates needs for document management that other texts do not require. Additionally, the need for… read more |