Hi,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 4:19 PM, Michael Meeks <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michael.meeks@suse.com" target="_blank">michael.meeks@suse.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Hi Aakriti,<br> <div class="im"><br> On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 16:10 +0530, Aakriti Gupta wrote:<br> > I am looking for a tool to convert MS Office file formats to pdfs.<br> > I have been investigating the support for OOXML by LibreOffice,<br> > specifically, export of OOXML formats to PDF.<br> <br> </div> Sounds like LibreOffice would be an ideal tool for that; you can do a<br> command line conversion with --convert-to - run soffice --help to see<br> some examples.<br> <div class="im"><br> > These are certain obvious bugs which have been filed too:<br> > - The gradient in background colors, shapes, etc. is exported<br> > incorrectly. (e.g. bug 45505 )<br> > - The text effects, like shadow, soft edges, glow, etc. are missing<br> > (e.g. bug 44135)<br> <br> </div> There are always plenty of bugs :-) This is a developers list - where<br> you can expect code pointers to help hack on and fix such bugs, and<br> review / merging of any patches you've come up with.<br> <div class="im"><br> > - Embedded charts, etc. are missing<br> <br> </div> That surprises me.<br> <div class="im"><br> > I'd like to know the status of these issues. Are developers working on<br> > any of these or are there any technical difficulties in fixing these<br> > bugs?<br> <br> </div> If the bug doesn't say anyone is working on it - it's a good sign that<br> they are not. However - unless you yourself want to work on it - this is<br> not a great forum to discuss bugs in - go to the discuss list for that.<br> <br> If you are a non-developer and need bugs fixing to your timeline it is<br> best to contract support for that from one of the many companies<br> providing those services around LibreOffice :-) That way you can help<br> the developer : bug imbalance for the project !<br> <br></blockquote><div><br>I am currently interning at a company and my project is to find/improve a tool for exporting MS Office formats to PDFs. A huge number of documents would need to be converted to pdfs.<br><br>Could you suggest the approximate time in which this goal could be achieved, considering that I'm totally new to LibreOffice? <br> <br>I have about 4 weeks to work on this project as part of the internship. Could you suggest which of these issues could be fixed in this timeframe?<br><br>The feasibility of fixing a considerable number of issues in the given timeframe would help them decide the best option for this project. <br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> All the best,<br> <br> Michael.<br> <span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br> --<br> <a href="mailto:michael.meeks@suse.com">michael.meeks@suse.com</a> <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot<br> <br> </font></span></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Thanks!<div><br><div>-Aakriti</div><div><br></div><div>http://<a href="http://aakritigupta.wordpress.com" target="_blank">aakritigupta.wordpress.com</a></div> </div><br>