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Try out Fidus Writer 3.1!

johanneswilm, December 23, 2016

TL;DR: Tons of new features. Try out the upcoming Fidus Writer 3.1 release at https://app.fiduswriter.org Half a year ago we launched Fidus Writer 3.0 — the first version of Fidus Writer with support for all modern browsers. While we continue to modernize Fidus Writer, we have started to add new features again. There are literally… read more

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Fidus Writer now exports to DOCX and ODT!

johanneswilm, October 4, 2016

Inspired by Mahdi Jaberzadeh Ansari’s work within OSCOSS on a converter program for Fidus Writer files to docx, we wanted to see if it was possible to bake an export system for Fidus Writer files to standard word processors right into Fidus Writer itself. It turned out that we could do it! The upcoming 3.1… read more

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On the creation of a converter between Word and Fidus Writer

johanneswilm, August 8, 2016

Mahdi Jaberzadeh Ansari recently finished his work on a Master of Computer Science degree at the University of Bonn. As part of this degree, he has been working on an automated way to convert documents between Fidus Writer to and Microsoft Word. Jaberzadeh Ansari’s work is part of the ongoing Opening Scholarly Communication in Social Sciences… read more

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Fidus Writer 3.0 launched!

johanneswilm, June 29, 2016

After a prolonged testing period, we are proud to announce the launch of Fidus Writer 3.0! With this release, I really wanted to make sure that stability was a top priority, so I did not include new features for the past few weeks. Instead I worked through tons of error reports from early testers. Download the… read more

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Getting really close… Fidus Writer 3.0.0 rc1 released!

johanneswilm, June 10, 2016

After a week of heavy testing by all of you, we finally getting there. Bug reports have gone down extremely fast after the first few fixes, and a lot of this is about people trying to upload things that shouldn’t be uploaded, etc. . We should probably expect a final version 3.0.0 to be released… read more

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Try it out! Fidus Writer 3.0.0 Beta 5 released

johanneswilm, June 5, 2016

With this release Fidus Writer is finally at a stage where you can try it, even without your own server! But be aware that we need to cover the cost of running the server (in addition to developing the software), so the server is only set up temporarily for testing. Donate now so that development can… read more

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Fidus Writer 3.0.0 beta 4 released

johanneswilm, May 29, 2016

This is the Microsoft compatibility release! Fidus Writer is now getting really close to releasing the first release candidate and also to offering a testing server for users who cannot install Fidus Writer themselves. We just found an issue with Safari on iPad today, so we’ll have to either fix this or disable logins from… read more

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Fidus Writer 3.0.0 beta 3 released

johanneswilm, May 20, 2016

Getting more stable very time, this time we have the following changes: Allows Copying/pasting/merging across document parts Fix: badly written formulas shouldn’t crash the editor Fix: when uploading images in the document of another user, these images should be owned by document owner Fix: make it possible to edit title and categories of images owned… read more

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Fidus Writer 3.0.0 beta 2 released

johanneswilm, May 16, 2016

Getting closer to the 3.0.0 release, in beta 2, article authors can give comment only access rights to collaborators. This feature was mainly developed by Aleksandr Korovin from the OSCOSS project/University of Bonn. Download it from here. Other changes: Made “read only” mode work Allow enabling of compression mode for production sites Fix: Import Fidus… read more

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Fidus Writer 3.0.0 beta 1 released

johanneswilm, May 12, 2016
A lonely user typing and selecting in two windows can see his own caret shared

It took a long time, but finally here it is: the beta1 of the 3.0 upcoming 3.0 release. This is the first Fidus Writer beta release since January 2014. The first and last full version release was version 1.0 in August 2013. Download it from here. What is new? The main new features are the… read more

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