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QiOO: Insert Holy Quran Verses in Your Document

7:38 PM

Recently, I wrote about COOoder, an extension for LibreOffice or OpenOffice which allows us to beautify source code of many programming languages. Today, I'd like to inform you about an extension to put Holy Quran verses in your LibreOffice or OpenOffice document. Let's get started.

Downloading the extension
Make sure you have LibreOffice or OpenOffice installed on your system. Please download the extension here and select the latest version available.

Installing the extension
Inside the archive of downloaded file, you will find two files: font (*.ttf) and the extension (*.oxt). Before installing the extension, please make sure the font included in the archive is installed correctly. If you have no idea on how to install font in Ubuntu, simply type the following command:

cp ScheherazadeRegOT.ttf ~/.fonts/
fc-cache -f -v

Once the font installed correctly, now it's time install the extension. Please open LibreOffice or OpenOffice and navigate to "Tools > Extension Manager" then click "Add...".

Now, locate the *.oxt file you have downloaded.

Configuration
In order to make LibreOffice or OpenOffice displays Arabic text correctly (from right to left), we have to enable complex text layout. In LibreOffice or OpenOffice navigate to "Tools > Option > Language Settings > Languages", tick "Enabled for complex text layout" and select "Arabic (Saudi Arabia)" under CTL option.

Restart the application and you should be able to insert Quran text inside your document.

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Syntax Highlighter Extension for LibreOffice/OpenOffice

7:19 PM

There are many IDEs we can use to help us write code faster and easier. Most of them have a nice syntax folding and highlighting. For example: selector, property, and value in CSS code have different color each other. But what happens when you copy the code and paste it on LibreOffice or OpenOffice to create PDF document of your codes? It is not beautiful as in IDE you use. Is there any solution? Yes, you can install COOoder extension for LibreOffice/OpenOffice to beautify your syntax.

COOoder is an extension for LibreOffice and OpenOffice which allows us to display the source code of a program in beautiful format as in IDE. As you can see in the picture above, selector, property, and value of CSS are given different colors. COOoder supports a wide range of programming language and most importantly, you can use it for free!

Installation
Please download the extension here. Once downloaded, open LibreOffice/OpenOffice and navigate to "Tools > Extension Manager" then click "Add..." and select your recently downloaded file.

Usage example
Using COOoder is easy. Simply block the text you want "beautify" and select "Tools > Add-Ons > COOoder" until COOoder window appears on screen. At the language section, please select the appropriate programming language for your code.

Easy does it?

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Boost LibreOffice/OpenOffice Startup

6:01 AM

Many of us complaint that LibreOffice loads slowly in startup even in high-end computer. So today I'd like to write a post on how to boost LibreOffice startup by tweaking some options inside it. Although in this post I use LibreOffice, it should works with OpenOffice too.