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Using Libera Suite

Libera Suite opens a document in a window and lets you edit and save it. Words, Tables and Slides all work that way; Diagrams opens Visio files to read. Check What works today before you install anything.

Each editor carries its own colour, and everything else about the window is the same:

Libera Tables holds an empty spreadsheet, and its toolbar is the Libera Tables teal.

Libera Slides holds a title slide, and its toolbar is the Libera Slides gold.

The shape of it

Libera Suite is two pieces that arrive separately.

The application is a small Python package. It is a few hundred kilobytes: the window, the command line, and the host that the editor talks to.

The payload is everything else: the editors themselves, the document engine, the fonts. It is about 110 MB compressed on macOS and 120 MB on Linux, and you fetch or install it once. The Python package does not carry it.

They are versioned separately and the application checks that the payload it finds is the one it expects. This is why installing Libera Suite takes two steps.

What it is not

Libera Suite does not talk to a server, does not need an account, and does not upload your documents anywhere. The editor runs as local web content served over 127.0.0.1 to a window on your own machine. There is no collaboration, no cloud storage and no telemetry, because none of it is built.