fit slide to window statusbar icon
LibreOffice 4.3 Impress now has a "Fit slide to window" icon in the statusbar alongside the zoom slider.
Syndicated 2014-05-08 13:47:00 (Updated 2014-05-08 13:47:12) from Caolán McNamara
fit slide to window statusbar icon
LibreOffice 4.3 Impress now has a "Fit slide to window" icon in the statusbar alongside the zoom slider.
Syndicated 2014-05-08 13:47:00 (Updated 2014-05-08 13:47:12) from Caolán McNamara
format all comments
As part of our series of trying to solve in-house needs LibreOffice 4.3 will have a "format all comments" feature to change the character properties of all comments in a document.
Syndicated 2014-04-23 11:12:00 (Updated 2014-04-23 11:12:25) from Caolán McNamara
Printing comments in margins
Because a fellow RedHat employee requested it on Friday, LibreOffice Writer 4.3 will be able to print comments in the margin effectively as they appear on screen, which should take care of the old fdo#36815 feature request. There is now an additional "place comments in margin" option in the print dialog (and writer print options). On screen the comments are placed outside the real page area, so to actually get them onto the paper when printing, the contents of the page needs to be scaled down by approximately 75% of its original size to make space to fit the comments in.
Here's the additional comment place option in the print dialog
Syndicated 2014-04-16 10:16:00 (Updated 2014-04-16 10:16:17) from Caolán McNamara
700 conversion target reached
Syndicated 2014-03-28 20:54:00 (Updated 2014-03-28 20:54:44) from Caolán McNamara
FindingTheBlastedLastBunchOfDialogs
I'm finding it a fairly slow process to find the last 175 dialogs/tabpages in the LibreOffice UI. I have the full list of identifiers, and it's generally not a difficult process to find how to activate any individual dialog from the UI but in the aggregate it takes time and breaks the development flow if I have to stop/start to find the next one to convert.
So, you can help :-) This FindDialogs wiki page contains the list of identifiers and some hints as to how to find them in the source and in the help documentation. That's generally sufficient to determine what dialog they describe and how to launch it.
Filling out those remaining blank "how to activate" entries will speed up the conversion process.
Syndicated 2014-03-05 13:32:00 (Updated 2014-03-05 13:32:33) from Caolán McNamara
dialog conversion status, 190 to go
Syndicated 2014-02-13 16:13:00 (Updated 2014-02-13 16:13:14) from Caolán McNamara
FOSDEM2014
My FOSDEM2014 LibreOffice .ui format a11y notes for developers presentation is available now. Basic notes on the importance of setting mnemonics and how to migrate pre-existing accessibility relations out of explicit c++ code and into GtkBuilder a11y markup.
Syndicated 2014-02-05 11:09:00 (Updated 2014-02-05 11:09:09) from Caolán McNamara
Long Writer Paragraphs
Now that the huge work of removing and replacing UniString is complete and LibreOffice 4.2 has branched off. Now is a good time to remove the 16bit limits in Writer that continued to limit its paragraph length to 65535 chars. So I pushed today to master (4.3) the final set of changes to remove that limitation. Above is a screenshot showing the result. A writer document with a single paragraph containing > 100,000 characters.Syndicated 2014-01-15 13:36:00 (Updated 2014-01-15 13:36:06) from Caolán McNamara
622 Conversions, 70% complete
Syndicated 2014-01-08 10:42:00 (Updated 2014-01-08 10:44:24) from Caolán McNamara
guess the architecture
Syndicated 2013-12-31 19:17:00 (Updated 2013-12-31 19:17:56) from Caolán McNamara
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
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