hi all, forgot to write about this, but some weeks ago i've written a small utility that can be used for layout regression tests. like several previous incarnations of the same idea, it bootstraps an office, loads all documents in a directory and prints them to files. then it converts the files to JPEGs with GhostScript and compares them against the reference via ImageMagick tools. of course in the tradition of the 27 previous similar tools (none of which actually ran for me, btw) it is called "convwatch.py".
unfortunately it is currently a bit specific to Writer, it is hardcoded to only look at ".odt" files etc., but that should be easy to change. you can run it like this to create reference files: URE_BOOTSTRAP=file:///installation/opt/program/fundamentalrc PYTHONPATH=installation/opt/program /installation/opt/program/python /core/bin/convwatch.py --soffice=path:/installation/opt/program/soffice --userdir=file:///tmp/foo --reference /inputfiles (actually perhaps it's not necessary to set the path variables when using the python from the installation, but i haven't checked that...) to do comparison with your changes or whatever just leave out --reference. the comparison is very primitive, you just get a list of images that are not identical at the end and have to investigate manually how bad that really is in each case. you can also connect to a running soffice instance: URE_BOOTSTRAP=file:///installation/opt/program/fundamentalrc PYTHONPATH=installation/opt/program python /core/bin/convwatch.py --soffice=connect:pipe,name=$USER /inputfiles also, it supports the --valgrind option, which given initial impressions has the potential keep me busy for some time :-/ it is based on a handful of general purpose classes to setup connections to an soffice process in a robust way that could be useful for writing UNO API tests in Python. _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
