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Asian layout export improved

I recently had a look at the .docx export of the document grid for asian characters. It was not implemented at all and the .doc export was buggy. After some time constantly not skipping a word in the OOXML specifications, I finally had a working implementation and could fix the …

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How to filter posts of an RSS feed in Liferea

I really turned annoyed by some posts in an RSS feed, because there were a lot of them and I usually never read them. I wanted to filter them out of the RSS feed automatically in Liferea. I found out that this RSS reader can use scripts to filter the …

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Learning chinese alone

I recently decided to learn chinese again. I took chinese lessons at the engineering school, but forgot almost everything! Hopefully I still have the lessons and I have found a cool on-line chinese course with audio samples on chinese-tools.com... but I needed some way to monitor my progresses in …

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Using the drawinglayer in Writer

You may not know what the drawinglayer is and what it would bring to borders in Writer. This is a new framework for drawing stuffs on the screen in OpenOffice.org. It offers a nice and easy API to render complex shapes. When implementing the new engraved / embossed / inset / outset …

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GSoc 2010, let's go for ooo-build!

Yesterday evening we received the good news from Google: ooo-build will be a mentoring organization this year again. This year we will have the pleasure to share projects slots with ooo4kids, the new OpenOffice.org based Office suite for 7/12 years old children. I hope that we will have …

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Borders types fight: round 2

In the first round I have added the dotted and dashed border types. The challenging part of it was to draw the dashed lines everywhere in Calc, Writer and Impress / Draw. More informations can be found in the previous blog post. The second round aims at improving the interoperability with …

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Nice popups for every toolbar

In the Go-oo team, we wanted to refactor some toolbar popups to tend to some general look. The following screenshots give a good idea of the differences between those popups.

Differences between the toolbars

Then I changed the popup windows by something looking more like the third of the above screenshots. For some popups …

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Dotted border types in Calc and Writer

As this has often heard people complaining about the lack of dotted and dashed line types in Calc and Writer, I have started to implement it (139 votes on i#8275). Kohei told me that these line types are heavily used by the Japanese administration in their forms. Even thought …

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New export wizard for ooeclipse

During the last days, I have started to rework the export wizard of OOEclipse. There are several reasons for this change:

  • Getting rid of the package.properties file and replace it by the manifest.xml file.
  • Better fit the Eclipse UI standards
  • Propose the user to generate scripts to build …
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