7th ODF Plugfest in Gouda
For those that might care, your servant will be attending this week the ODF Plugfest #7 in Gouda (Netherlands).I will have on Friday a short presentation of the best free and open source library for...
View ArticleTake a decision to enter FOSS in 2012
So, the year changed again and with it come quite often new decisions. Some swear to work out the superfluous kilos, pounds, or whatever standardized measure your country uses, gained too fast during...
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FOSDEM 2012 - How to make the best of it and become LibreOffice developer
FOSDEM 2012 is just round the corner and, as you might know, LibreOffice will have a DevRoom this year too. And, as it was already publicized, your servant and Eilidh McAdam of libvisio fame will...
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LibreOffice CorelDraw Import filter - don't despise the humble beginnings
You might still remember someofmyblogs about our new and shiny MS Visio import filter in the upcoming LibreOffice 3.5.0.But what about 3.6.0? Is it going to be an exciting version too? Well, the answer...
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Google Summer of Code at LibreOffice: become famous and maybe rich!
So, just before the weekend, we received the great news that Google chose LibreOffice as a mentoring organisation for Google Summer of Code again this year. Some of you might remember that last year we...
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LibreOffice CorelDraw Import filter - the best file-format coverage in the...
I just realized that has been a long long time since I last blogged about libcdr and the CorelDraw import filter in LibreOffice. Those that know me well can imagine that it is much more fun to write...
View ArticleGoogle Summer of Code 2012 - accepted projects for LibreOffice
Google announced today the accepted students for Google Summer of Code 2011.The students working on LibreOffice will be:StudentTitleMentorAndrzej HuntSmartphone remote control for LibreOffice...
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LibreOffice MS Publisher Import filter - young but strong baby
As Sophie Gauthier announced in the language of Voltaire, LibreOffice was branched for the beta phase in view of the 3.6 release. This is a major step in order to bring the features we were working on...
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LibreOffice CorelDraw Import filter - text support hatches out
Uff, it is done!!!We started to work on the text support inside libcdr already before the Libre Graphics Meeting in Vienna. We worked hard during the talks and the long evenings after having eaten some...
View ArticleSusan's Book on Intellectual Property and Access to Education
I am happy to announce the upcoming book of my dear wife. A must read for all interested in intellectual property, in access to copyrighted materials and in development issues.This book originates from...
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LibreOffice CorelDraw import filter: improvements by user input
It has been a long time without communicating with the distinguished readership of my blog. There was a hard decision to be made between producing code and producing literature. The code won until now....
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LibreOffice Visio Import Filter: 20 years of drawings opened in your...
It is true that the support of the most used Microsoft Visio file formats in LibreOffice will celebrate 1 year next February. And I will gladly have a birthday talk with any of you who will be freezing...
View ArticleLibreOffice Google Summer of Code 2013 - selected projects
There is now again the period of the year when the results of Google Summer of Code selection are public. As for LibreOffice project, we have got 13 slots this year. We love you, Google! We really...
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LibreOffice import filter for legacy Mac file-formats - smile and say "mwaw"!
Attentive reader of this blog remembers that, besides improvements in the most frequently used file-formats, each major release of LibreOffice adds to the list of document file-formats that are freed...
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Extending the Swiss Army knife - an overview about writing of filters for...
LibreOffice is sometimes regarded as the Swiss army knife when it comes to opening office file-formats. Although it might be a slight exaggeration, it is a point of honour of the development team to...
View ArticleService announcement: openning of SXW files produced by early versions of...
Just a service announcement for those that might have around still SXW files generated from WordPerfect documents by the wpd2sxw tool version 0.6.x or earlier (years 2004 and before). Those files used...
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LibreOffice Import filters - what is stewing in the sauce-pan
Long time not see, dear friends. But that does not mean that there is nothing to speak about. So, hence a new blog post for those that were wondering what was happenning in the reverse-straight...
View ArticleThe Document Foundation elections: an intimacy between you, your choices and...
As many who follow the LibreOffice mailing lists know, soon we will have the elections for the Bord of Directors again. Without doubt, there will be a lot of good candidates and the choice will be...
View ArticleFridrich Štrba, candidate for TDF Board of Directors
The time has come when The Document Foundation will elect a new Board of Directors. As you might already know, there are many good candidates. And since I clearly think I am the best of them, I am...
View ArticleThank You!
Dear friends!From the bottom of my heart I would like to thank you for your support during the past elections for The Document Foundation Board of Directors. Without you my election would be never...
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AbiWord import filter in LibreOffice: another tool for the swiss army knife
It all started by an innocent (?) question on 28th of November 2013. The inimitable Caolán asked whether anybody considered writing an import filter for AbiWord document format. And the distinguished...
View ArticleLibreOffice and Google Summer of Code 2014
Hello, dear students!This little blog is to remind you that in a bit more then 24 hours, the student applications for the 10th edition of Google Summer of Code will be closed. It is always better to...
View ArticleLibreOffice CorelDraw import filter - support of version x7 landed
Corel released CorelDraw x7 on 27 March 2014. We had some time to look at the changes in file-format and we adapted libcdr to be able to open it. The changes landed this week in LibreOffice code, in...
View ArticleLibreOffice projects for Google Summer of Code 2014
We are happy to announce that the LibreOffice project has 10 Google Summer of Code projects for this 10th edition of the program. The selected projects and students are:Project Title Selected...
View Articlelibrevenge 0.0.0 is out: Document Liberation Project's framework is available...
It is not without emotion that the Document Liberation Project announces today the first release of the new framework library, librevenge-0.0.0. This release means that the API of librevenge is now set...
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