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Supporting metafile formats: WMF/EMF/EMF+

26 April 202228 January 2023

LibreOffice supports many file formats, and among them are some raster and vector image formats from Microsoft. Metafile formats WMF, EMF and EMF+ are among the vector formats usable in Microsoft products, and also in LibreOffice. Here we discuss the implementation of the  support for these file formats in LibreOffice. (more…)

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Using cmake to build LibreOffice C++ SDK examples

19 April 202221 June 2023

These days, many C++ projects are built using build tools like cmake and meson in addition to GNU make (gmake). In this blog, I have already written on how to compile and run LibreOffice SDK examples using gmake. Now I want to discuss instructions for compiling and running C++ examples using cmake as the build tool. (more…)

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How to use Gerrit code review effectively

11 April 202212 September 2023

Any code submission to LibreOffice should pass Gerrit code review in order to get merged into the LibreOffice codebase. This is possible using the code review tool Gerrit. (more…)

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