As I explained it in a previous post, I am working on fixing docx import in OpenOffice.org. I have fixed a bug on the pictures import recently. The patch fixes the issues i#97645 and i#96021. The i#96021 issue fix isn't complete yet, because it has something …
You might already have to work with huge XML files. Using regexp searches aren't really handy as you easily get lost in the XML file. I am currently working with a really enormous XML file. I have then written some small Perl and Vim script to search in XML files …
Thanks to Andrew Ziem in his post A Better Office .docx converter, I have discovered a place needing many improvements in OOo. I started to fix the border problem exposed in Andrew's document, but then found that the table styles weren't imported. This problem is now fixed in go-oo trunk …
Since I have only 5 fingers on each hand, I prefer using Vim to develop in C++ for OpenOffice.org. I have found some tricks that help me working that I would like to share in this post. I am sorry for those coding on windows, but I don't know …
As you may have read it I have been working for some time on a new system to bootstrap OpenOffice.org from the Eclipse integration. I will take this occasion to explain how to bootstrap OOo in a Java application.
You may have already encountered that problem, because …
For some time, I have been working on one of your comments on the Eclipse integration: I am making it work with OpenOffice.org 3.0 and its SDK. In the same time, I have found some problems with the UNO types browser. I have started to fix them and …
December will be the start of a new way of life for me and my wife.
This week I have travelled to Quebec for my work. I had time to discover Québec city during the week-ends and was full of the French-Canadian culture. If I have spent such a good time there, it thanks to my clients and hosts: InfoGlobe (fr). I would like to thank …
I have explained in one of my last posts how to measure the coverage of the test of a Java OpenOffice.org extension. These white-box tests are generally not enough to ensure the quality of a development. XUnit tests are often used by developers to automate the tests. What about …
You may have already heard of codeswarm. This small project, helps you to create a video from the commits logs of project. Some open source projects have their codeswarm, but not OpenOffice.org. At the beginning I wanted to have a codeswarm of both OOo and ooo-build, but the OOo …