This week, we are kicking off a continuing “QA Weekly Focus” to attract attention to certain topics and areas. For this first week, let’s look into issues related to our SVG support. SVG stands for “Scalable Vector Graphics“, a widespread, open vector format and standard. It has become the most used vector format on the web, and it is for example used as the default format in Inkscape, the open source vector graphics editor. LibreOffice supports importing and exporting SVGs in various places, and these issues are tracked in 3 meta bugs: 88278: SVG import image filter (all modules) 111450: SVG fileSave filter (Draw/Impress) 156066: SVG filters In recent months, the SVG topic got a fair amount of attention, in particular thanks to Xisco Fauli’s work on the import filter (see illustration). Our friends at Inkscape have also recently voiced their interest in improving interoperability with LibreOffice (see Inkscape’s post on Mastodon). So let’s keep the momentum going, test how well SVG files are handled by LibreOffice, and review existing reports! They might need to be clarified, consolidated, or even closed because of all the recent improvements. The list of bugs to review is in this collaborative pad. You can
Month: October 2023
QA/Dev Report: September 2023
General Activities LibreOffice 7.5.6 and LibreOffice 7.5.7 were announced on September 14 and September 26 respectively LibreOffice 7.6.1 and LibreOffice 7.6.2 were announced on September 7 and September 26 respectively Olivier Hallot (TDF) continued adding Tabbed UI examples into help instructions, added a help page for editing styles, improved the help page for accessibility checker, added or updated help for commands found in Writer’s Table, Styles and Form menu as well as Tools menu for all applications Stéphane Guillou (TDF) added help for Impress’s Use Background fill and made some help cleanups Rafael Lima added search functionality to the Calc Functions sidebar Bogdan Buzea improved help for vertical positioning Seth Chaiklin changed some UI strings to be more clear and updated help pages accordingly Bartosz Kosiorek added Poisson distribution to help on Calc’s Random Number Generator Gábor Kelemen (allotropia) dropped HTML Export wizard help pages, improved the layout of Area dialog and did code cleanups in the area of includes Laurent Balland improved the Impress template Growing Liberty Miklós Vajna (Collabora) worked on multi-page floating tables in Writer Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library Szymon Kłos (Collabora) worked on LOKit and jsdialog used by Collabora Online. He also optimised