On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 5:51 AM, Flavio Moringa < flavio.mori...@caixamagica.pt> wrote:
> > 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... > I think that we still need human eyes for the final comparison, however the rest of the system could be automated a bit more -- e.g. we could put sample docs in subdirectories named by bug# and add screenshots of the docs as rendered in MS-Office; add in a script to have LO iterate over the subdirectories and spit out screenshots of how it renders the original files, and a little HTML GUI so that you can tab-through 2-ups of the original rendering vs. LO's rendering, and you've got a decent tool for testing improvements/regressions. 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 usually just search bugzilla for "conversion" or "formatting" :-) Even documents attached to old bugs can be helpful, as they can serve as regression tests. 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. > Yes, fidelity of document rendering is definitely one of the biggest hurdles I've faced when encouraging people to try LO. Any improvements on that front will be greatly appreciated! --R
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