Hi Robinson,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2012/7/6 Robinson Tryon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bishop.robinson@gmail.com" target="_blank">bishop.robinson@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">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><div class="gmail_quote">
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<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><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>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br>That's a good ideia, at least it would facilitate the testing, which is always very helpful... From my initial investigation in document conversion, the "visual" aspect is alwayst the difficult one because not all thins are well translated to the XML...<br>
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<br></div><div class="im"><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><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></div></div>
</blockquote><div><br>I've just replied to Michael Meeks that I'll do just that... try to compile a list of available documents in bugzilla that have conversion problems, and test them on the latest beta... And see which problems still exist...<br>
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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></div>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!<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
<br>--R<br></font></span></div>
</blockquote></div><br>Thanks<br clear="all"><br>-- <br><font size="-1"><b>Flávio Moringa</b></font><font size="1"><br>
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