Re: [documentliberation-discuss] two docx conversion test results on LibreOffice

Hi D,

Thanks for the details. From the list you mentioned, i assume abiword 
should be the simplest to do as its FOSS and maybe pulling the source 
code from it and translating it to whatever is needed by libreoffice 
might be the best way to go, so its 100% compatible. Looking at < 
http://www.abisource.com/wiki/PluginMatrix >, some abiword files are bz2 
compressed. Regarding the other formats, i think it might be good to 
reach out to the communities that use those applications for samples. 
For adobe freehand, the freehand forum < http://www.freehandforum.org/ > 
seems to be the best place to go, and i have signed up at their forum to 
ask if they would send in samples. Regarding visio, my friend's father 
is an engineer who uses visio for his work, so hopefully i can get a few 
of his files, and possible get him to produce some samples. It would be 
good to know what isolated features test files that are already 
available in the regression test repository, so test files with features 
not already covered can be sent in.

Jay Philips

On 04/21/2014 01:26 PM, David Tardon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 01:06:22AM +0400, Jay Philips wrote:
> > Hi David,
> >
> > Thanks for the info as it seems the testing i'm doing will be of no
> > use to this mailing list. Are there currently and formats that you
> > are working on that you would like sample files for?
> There is a list of existing libraries and suggested formats at
> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/DLP/Libraries . We need files for
> regression tests for most of the newer libraries (we use files collected
> from various sources, but these cannot be put into a public repository
> because of unclear license status). Concretely, we need files for:
> AbiWord, CorelDRAW (all versions), MS Publisher, Visio and Works
> Spreadsheet (all versions), Adobe Freehand (all versions). It would also
> be nice to have more test files for many of the formats supported by
> libe-book and libmwaw (or any test file in some cases). These should
> ideally be small files, each covering one isolated feature (or
> sub-feature) of the format. And the whole set should cover all the major
> features. As these would be published in a regression test repository,
> we need an acknowledgement that they are available under CC-BY-SA
> (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) license.
>
> We also need files for introspecting unknown formats, e.g., these on the
> "suggested" list, but not limited to it. We are not committed to write
> a filter for any particular format. But having some files (even better,
> a person who can create more on request) definitely promotes the chance
> for that happening :-) As these files would only be used for our
> internal needs, any file is fine, regardless of its source. Of course,
> minimal documents are much better here too. (Actually, several
> variations of the same document are even better; e.g., a sligtly
> moved or resized shape, some characters added to a paragraph, etc.)
>
> D.


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