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25 Jul 2024

LibreOfficeKit for document conversion

In the previous blog post, I provided a brief introduction to LibreOfficeKit API which one can use for accessing LibreOffice

27 Jun 2024

LibreOfficeKit API in action

If you want to use LibreOffice functionality in your applications, LibreOfficeKit API is one of the good ways to do that.

30 May 2024

Porting Java tests to C++

In this blog post, I discuss porting Java tests from Java to C++. We have many Java tests, and porting

14 May 2024

Crash fixes, part 4: assertion failure

In the previous parts of the blog posts series on fixing software crashes, I have written about some crash

18 Apr 2024

Crash fixes part 3 – Testing crashes

I have previously discussed fixing crashes in 2 parts (segfaults, aborts). Here I discuss testing crashes

18 Mar 2024

Test improvement – More and better tests for LibreOffice

One of the areas that can help LibreOffice, but may not directly be visible to the

29 Feb 2024

Writer tables converted to plain text – difficultyInteresting EasyHack

If you copy contents from LibreOffice Writer to a plain text editor like gedit or Notepad,

22 Feb 2024

Make Impress master slides copyable – difficulty interesting EasyHack

When working with LibreOffice Impress, “Slide Master” is the place where you can change the templates

4 Feb 2024

gbuild for Java tests – LibreOffice build system part 3

In this blog post, I discuss gbuild for Java tests. The goal is to write

25 Jan 2024

gbuild tips and tricks – LibreOffice build system part 2

In the first blog post on LibreOffice build system, gbuild which uses GNU Make,