On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 5:51 AM, Flavio Moringa <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:flavio.moringa@caixamagica.pt" target="_blank">flavio.moringa@caixamagica.pt</a>></span> wrote: <br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<br>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... <br>
</blockquote><div><br>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.<br>
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">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?<br>
</blockquote><div><br>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.<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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.<br>
</blockquote><br>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!<br><br>--R<br></div>