Category: Tutorial

Various functionalities of the LibreOffice are available through its programming interface, the UNO API. Here I discuss how to extend it. (more…)

Here I discuss what fuzz testing is, and how LibreOffice developers use it incrementally to maintain LibreOffice code quality. (more…)

In the previous blog post, I provided a brief introduction to LibreOfficeKit API which one can use for accessing LibreOffice functionalities in an external application. Here I discuss in detail how to use LibreOfficeKit for converting an ODT to PDF, or from/to virtually any other format that LibreOffice supports. (more…)

If you want to use LibreOffice functionality in your applications, LibreOfficeKit API is one of the good ways to do that. Here I describe how, with some examples. If you want to add the capability of loading, displaying, editing, saving and/or converting LibreOffice/MS Office files to your application, you have come to a good place. (more…)

In this blog post, I discuss porting Java tests from Java to C++. We have many Java tests, and porting them to C++ is beneficial for LibreOffice. Here I discuss why, and how. (more…)

In the previous parts of the blog posts series on fixing software crashes, I have written about some crash fixes in LibreOffice around segfaults, aborts, and I discussed how test them. Here I write about fixing assertion failure. (more…)

I have previously discussed fixing crashes in 2 parts (segfaults, aborts). Here I discuss testing crashes to avoid creating re-creating regressions. (more…)

In this blog post, I discuss gbuild for Java tests. The goal is to write a Makefile to compile and run a JUnit test for LibreOffice. You can also refer to part 1 and part 2 for a brif overiew on gbuild, the LibreOffice build system. (more…)

In the first blog post on LibreOffice build system, gbuild which uses GNU Make, I discussed some of the features of it. Here I discuss more about some gbuild tips and tricks that you may need. (more…)