Hi Michael, first of all thanks for replying.. I was thinking no one would :-)
>From your reply I assume that testing the filters, and doing regression tests is something I could do, maybe identifying the main conversion issues in groups of documents and kind of creating a "major conversion issues" table, and prioritizing those issues. Is there already something like that? I know that you can convert documents through the command line, using LibreOffice headless mode, and that can be something that's useful for scripting automatic tests... although I know that sometimes the main problems are "visual" and it's difficult to automatically detect the problems... Is there any kind of repository for documents that are candidates for conversion testing? I mean documents which are known to have conversion problems, and that are used to test improvements to the filters? I would like very much to become more involved in improving the conversion filters, since it seems to be a major problem in LibreOffice adoption, and everything that can be done to help in that area would certainly boost LibreOffice adoption specially in the enterprise world. Thanks Flávio 2012/7/5 Michael Stahl <mst...@redhat.com> > hi Flavio, > > On 03/07/12 12:45, Flavio Moringa wrote: > > > I chose as my masters dissertation investigation topic trying to improve > > the document conversion engine in LibreOffice (ex: converting docx to > > odt), and as such I would like to know who is working on the conversion > > engines and how can I help. > > the document conversion engines in LibreOffice are called Writer, Calc, > Draw and Impress. conversion from e.g. DOCX to ODT happens by importing > the DOCX file with the DOCX import filter into Writer, and then > exporting the document from Writer with the ODF export filter. > > there are also a few filters (such as XSLT filters, and writerperfect if > i remember correctly) that use ODF as an intermediate format, i.e., they > import by converting their format to ODF and then importing that into > the LO application, and export the reverse way. > > > I'm not a programmer, so what I'm interested in doing is something in > > the lines of investigating the main conversion problems, identifying the > > possible conversion flows, analysing the way the conversion flow is > > implemented in LibreOffice, and eventually trying to improve this flow > > somehow. > > it seems to me the main conversion problem is a lack of manpower to > improve the filters. oh, and more regression tests would be useful. > -- *Flávio Moringa* Project Leader Caixa Mágica Software Energia Open Source Rua Soeiro Pereira Gomes, Lote 1 - 4.º B, Edifício Espanha, 1600-196 Lisboa - Portugal Tel.: +351 217 921 260 Fax: +351 217 921 261 http://www.caixamagica.pt https://twitter.com/flaviomoringa https://www.facebook.com/flaviomoringa<https://www.facebook.com/flavio.moringa> http://pt.linkedin.com/in/flaviomoringa http://people.caixamagica.pt/flaviomoringa
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