ODF 1.2 Word Clouds

Ive been playing around today with a preview build of ODFDOM 0.9.   One of the capabilities were adding is a simple text extraction API. The idea is to have a very simple API, a single function call in fact, that will allow you to extract the plain text from a document.  So strip all formatting, all [...]

29/07/2010, source: Rob Weir: An Antic Disposition

New: OOo-DEV 3.3.x Developer Snapshot (build OOO330m2) available

Developer Snapshot OOo-Dev OOO330m2 is available for download.

OOO330 is the development codeline for upcoming OOo 3.3.x releases.

If you find issues within this build please file them to OpenOffice.org's bug tracking system IssueTracker.

Download:
http://download.openoffice.org/next

Release Notes:
http://development.openoffice.org/releases/OOO330m2_snapshot.html

MD5 checksums:
http://download.openoffice.org/next/md5sums/OOO330m2_md5sums.txt

28/07/2010, source: GullFOSS

The value of restricting choice

The language game Microsofts talking points go something like this (summarized in my words): If you adopt ODF instead of OOXML then you restrict choice.  Why would you want to do that?  Youre in favor of openness and competition, right?  So naturally, you should favor choice. You can see a hundreds of variations on this theme, in Microsoft [...]

27/07/2010, source: Rob Weir: An Antic Disposition

Weekly Links #14

DataNucleus Access Platform ODF Documents DataNucleus supports persisting/retrieving objects to/from Open Document Format (ODF) documents (using the datanucleus-odf plugin). Such documents can then be used in applications like OpenOffice and KOffice. It makes use of the ODF Toolkit project. tags: ODF Producing ODF spreadsheets So, the remaining question is: How to produce the ODF XML? What I did was, [...]

25/07/2010, source: Rob Weir: An Antic Disposition

New: OOo-DEV 3.x Developer Snapshot (build DEV300m85) available

Developer Snapshot OOo-Dev DEV300m85 is available for download.

DEV300 is the development codeline for upcoming OOo 3.x releases.

If you find issues within this build please file them to OpenOffice.org's bug tracking system IssueTracker.

Download:
http://download.openoffice.org/next

Release Notes:
http://development.openoffice.org/releases/DEV300m85_snapshot.html

MD5 checksums:
http://download.openoffice.org/next/md5sums/DEV300m85_md5sums.txt

22/07/2010, source: GullFOSS

New: OOo-DEV 3.3.x Developer Snapshot (build OOO330m1) available

Developer Snapshot OOo-Dev OOO330m1 is available for download.

OOO330 is the development codeline for upcoming OOo 3.3.x releases.

If you find issues within this build please file them to OpenOffice.org's bug tracking system IssueTracker.

Download:
http://download.openoffice.org/next

Release Notes:
http://development.openoffice.org/releases/OOO330m1_snapshot.html

MD5 checksums:
http://download.openoffice.org/next/md5sums/OOO330m1_md5sums.txt

19/07/2010, source: GullFOSS

ODF 1.2 Begins Final 60-day Public Review

A major milestone was reached for the OASIS Open Document Format (ODF) TC last week.  The latest Committee Draft of ODF 1.2 (CD 05) was sent out for a 60-day public review. As you may recall, ODF 1.2 is a single standard in three parts: Part 1 specifies the core schema, and was send out for [...]

13/07/2010, source: Rob Weir: An Antic Disposition

Testing/Translation the Features and Enhancements

Last week Marcus Lange announced the branch of the new code-line OOO330 for the next release of OpenOffice.org. It is based on developer snapshot DEV300m84. For such milestone I finalized the list of features/enhancements. I announced this list some weeks ago on the relevant OOo-mailing lists for QA and L10N and since then only some more entries came in. This list isn't a 'what's new'-guide. It more technical orientated and is for L10N testing and for checking the new features by the QA and the L10N teams. If you are interested what is in the next release, please take a look.

Since last week the Pootle servers for translation are updated with this milestone and Joost Andrae created the last TCM-testcases for the new features to help the translators to find the new strings in the user interface. A showstopper Meta-issue for Beta and for Final are opened. So everything is prepared to get a Beta of OpenOffice.org 3.3 soon.

If you want to help the QA team or the L10N teams, do not hesitate to download the current build (DEV300m84).

12/07/2010, source: GullFOSS

Public Review of OpenDocument v1.2

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11/07/2010, source: Open Document - Online Community for the OpenDocument OASIS Standard

New branch for OOo 3.3: OOO330

With entering the timeline for the new feature release OOo 3.3, a new master workspace (MWS) was created: OOO330. In HG (Mercurial) the OOO330 branch can be found here: hg.services.openoffice.org/hg/OOO330. It was branched off from DEV300 m84 and will help to stabilize the new milestones towards 3.3. The first milestone is scheduled soon.

The combined Feature and UI freeze on June 24th means that now only selected fixes will go into OOO330. This will be done on the releases@ooo mailing list or in the Release Status Meeting.

DEV300 can now be used for developing new things that could be seen in future versions.

Read more about details in the mailing list.

Explained in a picture:

05/07/2010, source: GullFOSS

Better multimedia support for OpenOffice.org on Unix systems

Playing back audio and video content on Unix system was and is still a matter of choices.

On the one hand, this is a good thing for the user. It offers a wide range of frameworks that best suit his/her needs. But on the other hand, this also brings a developer of a multi platform, general purpose Office productivity suite like OpenOffice.org (OOo) into the situation to make a choice. The choice needs to be made just to ensure that we don't have to provide a different backend for all multimedia frameworks that already exist. This just doesn't work for resource reasons. So, a framework needs to be chosen that meets the needs of a group of users as large as possible.

A few years ago, we created a flexible multimedia solution for OOo that offers the chance to extend the set of supported external frameworks in an easy way and with only little development effort.

Our first choice for a backend was the support for Sun's 'Java Media Framework' (JMF) at that time. A framework that is platform independent in general and that offers a good performance. Especially when using the - then platform dependent - performance extension, performance is on par with other frameworks.

Time has shown that JMF seems to be a bit outdated today and that support for appropriate decoders is still not as good as expected. Enabling the support for JMF within OOo was also a not so easy task for the user, since the appropriate jmf.jar archive had to be added by hand by the user to the OOo classpath.

So, we took a closer look at other frameworks and decided to create a completely new backend from scratch. This backend is based on the popular GStreamer framework. This is supported out of the box by many current Unix distributions, giving Ubuntu Linux and its derivatives as one of the most successful examples among available distributions.

With the release 0.10 of GStreamer, this framework reached a very mature state and offers a great and 'complete' set of supported codecs. If ⁞already installed on the system, no more user interaction is needed within OOo to enable the new OOo GStreamer backend. It should just work, supporting all GStreamer decoders that have been installed on the system!

From a technical point of view, the new GStreamer backend will be enabled by default on Unix systems, but can be disabled via configure with the --disable-gstreamer switch. In this case or in cases where no appropriate library can be found during runtime, a fallback to the old JMF implementation will happen.

In order to build the GStreamer backend with the default configure values, care needs to be taken to adjust the build baseline to at least gstreamer-0.10.17 or newer (tested, previous micro releases < 0.10.17 may also work), pkg-config requires the following build dependencies to gstreamer-0.10 and gstreamer-interfaces-0.10 resolved:

pkg-config --cflags --libs gstreamer-0.10 gstreamer-interfaces-0.10

-pthread -I/usr/include/gstreamer-0.10 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0
-I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/libxml2  -pthread
-lgstinterfaces-0.10 -lgstreamer-0.10 -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -lxml2
-lgthread-2.0 -lrt -lglib-2.0

If you are the maintainer of an OOo Tinderbox, please take care to update your Unix build machine to the new baseline.

By choosing GStreamer as our favorite framework for an up to date multimedia backend, we hope to serve as much Linux and Solaris OpenOffice.org customers as best as possible. Creating this backend is also our answer to a lot of feedback we received from SOHO as well as enterprise customers in the past. Please have fun using this new multimedia solution and don't hesitate to give us feedback.

01/07/2010, source: GullFOSS

New: OOo-DEV 3.x Developer Snapshot (build DEV300m84) available

Developer Snapshot OOo-Dev DEV300m84 is available for download.

DEV300 is the development codeline for upcoming OOo 3.x releases.

If you find issues within this build please file them to OpenOffice.org's bug tracking system IssueTracker.

Download:
http://download.openoffice.org/next

Release Notes:
http://development.openoffice.org/releases/DEV300m84_snapshot.html

MD5 checksums:
http://download.openoffice.org/next/md5sums/DEV300m84_md5sums.txt

01/07/2010, source: GullFOSS

Weekly Links #12

TeX4ht: LaTeX and TeX for Hypertext Appears to offer TeX to ODF conversion support. Would be interesting to see how well this works. tags: ODF ODF visualization using WebKit kdedevelopers.org Today is day 1 of of the OdfKit Hack Week. We wrote a list of things we want to achieve this week. In order to avoid embarrassment, [...]

27/06/2010, source: Rob Weir: An Antic Disposition

Linux Tag in Berlin

I was in Berlin for the LinuxTag trade fair on Friday, June 11. It was a great day to be there because it was the day of the UX meetup and the OpenOffice.org booth party. The day began with the very lively and informative gathering of 9 people (plus one more who showed up after it was over but stayed on for the continued discussion in the hallway: see pics on wiki) for the UX workshop announced by Christoph Noack on Usability in FOSS. That was fantastic because there were people from several different types of companies, including Novell, pidoco and Apliki, as well as all sorts of backgrounds: ranging from psychologists and HMI experts to software developers and even a lawyer.

Then I proceeded to work at the OOo booth for the rest of the day, including handing out soft preztels at our very successful booth party. I didn't have to point out the beer: All those crates were hard to overlook! Thanks go out to Jacqueline and Thomas and Joerg and Co. who organized it all.

On the train on the way back to Hamburg I may have been able to motivate a few more people to download and try the OpenOffice.org office suite. I was still in my trade fair t-shirt, so I just kept talking! People who have met me will understand that this is unusual for me. ;-) ha ha! No matter where I go, I will always put in a good word for this wonderful software and open source community.

All the best,

Liz

20/06/2010, source: GullFOSS

New: OOo-DEV 3.x Developer Snapshot (build DEV300m83) available

Developer Snapshot OOo-Dev DEV300m83 is available for download.

DEV300 is the development codeline for upcoming OOo 3.x releases.

If you find issues within this build please file them to OpenOffice.org's bug tracking system IssueTracker.

Download:
http://download.openoffice.org/next

Release Notes:
http://development.openoffice.org/releases/DEV300m83_snapshot.html

MD5 checksums:
http://download.openoffice.org/next/md5sums/DEV300m83_md5sums.txt

18/06/2010, source: GullFOSS

New: OOo-DEV 3.x Developer Snapshot (build DEV300m82) available

Developer Snapshot OOo-Dev DEV300m82 is available for download.

DEV300 is the development codeline for upcoming OOo 3.x releases.

If you find issues within this build please file them to OpenOffice.org's bug tracking system IssueTracker.

Download:
http://download.openoffice.org/next

Release Notes:
http://development.openoffice.org/releases/DEV300m82_snapshot.html

MD5 checksums:
http://download.openoffice.org/next/md5sums/DEV300m82_md5sums.txt

14/06/2010, source: GullFOSS

Weekly Links #11

Jeff Duntemanns ContraPositive Diary EPub and Word Processors tags: EPub Eugenes Opinions: ODF Templates For OpenOffice.org [Lulu.com, Turabian, misc] tags: ODF EU Commissioner Warns IT Buyers Against Vendor Lock-in I think Sayer hints at the significance of the speech here. It is not merely a reiteration of the importance of open standards against vendor lock-in. We all [...]

13/06/2010, source: Rob Weir: An Antic Disposition

New: OOo-DEV 3.x Developer Snapshot (build DEV300m81) is available

Developer Snapshot OOo-Dev DEV300m81 is available for download.

DEV300 is the development codeline for upcoming OOo 3.x releases.

If you find issues within this build please file them to OpenOffice.org's bug tracking system IssueTracker.

Download:
http://download.openoffice.org/next

Release Notes:
http://development.openoffice.org/releases/DEV300m81_snapshot.html

MD5 checksums:
http://download.openoffice.org/next/md5sums/DEV300m81_md5sums.txt

09/06/2010, source: GullFOSS

What's Cooking in the Renaissance Kitchen?

Yum, yum. Are we talking about better recipes?

OK, the title of this blog was a bit misleading. We are actually talking about Better Defaults, which are the focus of the most recent Renaissance status presentation, which you can munch on if you find time for a light snack.

The focus is still "Thinning Out Impress" so we are getting OpenOffice.org Impress fit by focusing on healthy changes in the Impress default settings diet. ;-) Thanks again to everyone who added dietary advice.

Have a look at the presentation before you go on your daily jog. Or just eat a celery stick while you watch the videos: I heard that you burn more calories chewing celery sticks than your body intakes from the celery. I hope it is true, because I'm not much of a jogger, but I love celery. :-)

Best wishes to everyone for a healthy life!

Liz

07/06/2010, source: GullFOSS

Weekly Links #10

xkcd: Infrastructures tags: ODF ODFDOM 0.8.5 The new Release of the OpenDocument Java Library tags: ODF The Art of Standards Wars [PDF] tags: standards EmacsWiki: Open Document View and edit OpenDocument files inside Emacs tags: ODF ODT interoperability, jerez and tapas at the ODF Plugfest in Granada, Spain We’ve went through testing scenarios from all previous workshops as well as from the current one [...]

06/06/2010, source: Rob Weir: An Antic Disposition

154 million and counting...

04/06/2010, source: GullFOSS

OpenOffice.org 3.2.1 was released today

OpenOffice.org 3.2.1 (build OOO320m18) was released today.

This is a bugfix release, so no new features implemented and the Feature Documentation from 3.2.0  is still valid. As this is the first release from OpenOffice.org's new sponsor Oracle, we have included a refreshed brand as it was necessary due to the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle in Januar 2010. Among this there are a few other things implemented. Read all about this on Brand Refresh.

Much more details about this version can be found in the technical Release Notes. Of course there is also an Announcement.

04/06/2010, source: GullFOSS

OpenOffice.org Conference 2010 - Call for Papers till June 16

This is not only the annual OpenOffice.org world conference, but also the 10th anniversary of the community and open source product. From August 31st - September 3rd, 2010, Budapest is the place to be if you are interested or involved in OOo.

The call for papers is still going on, so if you haven't done so already, get your proposal for a workshop or presentation in by June 16. (Please note the conference language is English.)

Submit your paper at http://www.ooocon.org

Budapest: The OpenOffice.org community's choice for 2010!

For information on how to register for the conference, see the website.

04/06/2010, source: GullFOSS

ODFDOM 0.8.5 - The new Release of the OpenDocument Java Library

The new version of ODFDOM - our Apache 2 licensed ODF library in Java has been released!

1. The support of all ODF templates. Nearly all document types of ODF 1.2 are now supported.
   Only the support for Formula (MathML) and Database front end documents will follow later.
2. The new high level Presentation API for slide handling. An API supporting exchange of slides, copy and much more.
   

Still this release was not a feature release, but focused on performance improvements and bug fixes, like the support of none ODF XML within documents.
The next version will focus on refactoring. For instance  the adaption of features from the first hour of ODFDM (e.g. style handling) to our latest design rules, separating XML details from the high level convenient Document API.

Another goal is a diplomatic one. The exchange of ideas with other ODF library implementors. Maybe we can agree on a common ODF Package and DOM API, which are the base APIs of the layered architecture:

The ODF Package Layer:

• Provides access to all resources stored within the ODF package, such as XML streams, images or embedded objects. This layer covers all features from the third part of the ODF 1.2 specification defining the ODF Package features. The ODF 1.2 package features are build on top technologies as ZIP package handling, W3C encryption, W3C signature and W3C metadata.

• Provides all the features of an office format, such as tables, images, numbering etc. All features are defined in the first part of the ODF 1.2 specification describing the ODF XML schema. This layer consists of two APIs representing two different views on the features:
  • The DOM API:
    Gives access to the XML, the elemental parts of the ODF schema features. With this API it is easy to manipulate all specified XML nodes extending the platform and language independent DOM API DOM API standardized by the W3C - best-known by its implementation through the browsers. It extends the DOM API using a typed DOM. For every ODF XML element and ODF XML attribute defined by the ODF grammar (the RelaxNG schema) a unique class exists, providing methods for their allowed children. The purpose is to provide the user a corset to easily write valid ODF without consulting the spec constantly. This API is very consistent as instead of laboriously writing all these classes, the sources were generated directly from the ODF schema. This generation guarantees complete coverage of the ODF specification on one side and an easy and accurate upgrade to future ODF specifications on the other.
  • The Document API:
    Provides a different much more high level view on the ODF features. This API is concerned about usability, hiding all ODF XML implementation details from the user, covering frequent user scenarios. For example, changing the content of a certain spreadsheet cell (e.g. Add 'Hello World' to a spreadsheet cell positioned at 'B2'). While in the ODF DOM API in general each class represents an ODF XML node, here a class covers multiple underlying ODF XML elements (& their attributes). Think of puzzle piece consisting of multiple smaller pieces. Therefore the typed DOM tree is being mapped to Document feature tree.

If there are any further question on ODFDOM, we would be happy to answer them on one of our ODFDOM mailing lists. 
Participation of any kind: review, discussion, coding or documentation is more than welcome! 

See you there! 
Svante

04/06/2010, source: GullFOSS

New: OOo-DEV 3.x Developer Snapshot (build DEV300m80) available

Developer Snapshot OOo-Dev DEV300m80 is available for download.

DEV300 is the development codeline for upcoming OOo 3.x releases.

If you find issues within this build please file them to OpenOffice.org's bug tracking system IssueTracker.

Download:
http://download.openoffice.org/next

Release Notes:
http://development.openoffice.org/releases/DEV300m80_snapshot.html

MD5 checksums:
http://download.openoffice.org/next/md5sums/DEV300m80_md5sums.txt

01/06/2010, source: GullFOSS

New: OOo-DEV 3.x Developer Snapshot (build DEV300m79) available

Developer Snapshot OOo-Dev DEV300m79 is available for download.

DEV300 is the development codeline for upcoming OOo 3.x releases.

If you find issues within this build please file them to OpenOffice.org's bug tracking system IssueTracker.

Download:
http://download.openoffice.org/next

Release Notes:
http://development.openoffice.org/releases/DEV300m79_snapshot.html

MD5 checksums:
http://download.openoffice.org/next/md5sums/DEV300m79_md5sums.txt

31/05/2010, source: GullFOSS

New: OpenOffice.org 3.2.1 Release Candidate 2 (build OOO320m18) available

OpenOffice.org 3.2.1 Release Candidate 2 is now available on the download website. Please note that currently a few Windows builds are not yet ready, these files need a bit more time to be available.

If you find severe issues within this build please file them to OpenOffice.org's bug tracking system IssueTracker:

Download website:
http://download.openoffice.org/all_rc.html

Release notes:
http://development.openoffice.org/releases/3.2.1rc2.html

MD5 checksums:
http://download.openoffice.org/next/md5sums/3.2.1rc2_md5sums.txt

EDIT:
The usual website for downloading RCs is now available. Therefore I've updated this post with the link.

28/05/2010, source: GullFOSS

Renaissance Video on YouTube

For those of you who haven't seen it yet, the most recent status presentation is online here.

The very brief slide show includes a link to the really juicy stuff: The latest Renaissance Impress video on YouTube. In the video, you will get a sneak-peek of the improved slide handling and slide layouts as well as how quickly you can now insert tables, charts, images, and video.

If you want to skip the presentation and just go to the video, then feel free to do so. Either way, comments and  feedback are welcome.

The next Renaissance status update will be out by mid-June, so even if the weather doesn't get much better, you still have something to look forward to!

:-)

Best regards,

Liz

25/05/2010, source: GullFOSS

New: OOo-DEV 3.x Developer Snapshot (build DEV300m78) available

Developer Snapshot OOo-Dev DEV300m78 is available for download.

DEV300 is the development codeline for upcoming OOo 3.x releases.

If you find issues within this build please file them to OpenOffice.org's bug tracking system IssueTracker.

Download:
http://download.openoffice.org/next

Release Notes:
http://development.openoffice.org/releases/DEV300m78_snapshot.html

MD5 checksums:
http://download.openoffice.org/next/md5sums/DEV300m78_md5sums.txt

21/05/2010, source: GullFOSS

Weekly Links #9

The ODF Podcast 001: Svante Schubert on ODF, RDF and ODFDOM Open Document Last month OASIS ODF Adoption TC member Rob Weir sat down with Svante Schubert at the Plugfest in Granada to discuss a range of topics, including ODF 1.2s RDF-based metadata and Svantes work on ODFDOM. You can listen to this interview [...]

16/05/2010, source: Rob Weir: An Antic Disposition

The ODF Podcast 001: Svante Schubert on ODF, RDF and ODFDOM

read more

12/05/2010, source: Open Document - Online Community for the OpenDocument OASIS Standard

New: OpenOffice.org 3.2.1 Release Candidate 1 (build OOO320m17) available

OpenOffice.org 3.2.1 Release Candidate 1 is now available on the download website.

If you find severe issues within this build please file them to OpenOffice.org's bug tracking system IssueTracker:

Download website:
http://download.openoffice.org/all_rc.html

Release notes:
http://development.openoffice.org/releases/3.2.1rc1.html

MD5 checksums:
http://download.openoffice.org/next/md5sums/3.2.1rc1_md5sums.txt

10/05/2010, source: GullFOSS

Weekly Links #8

How To Read Open Document Format ODF documents on Symbian I learned about a quite decent Symbian reader for ODF files, called Office Reader. I tested it using Funambol email push and sync client on my Nokia E71 and the results are quite good. You can see from the screenshots below (taken from a pretty complex [...]

09/05/2010, source: Rob Weir: An Antic Disposition

ODF Turns Five

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05/05/2010, source: Open Document - Online Community for the OpenDocument OASIS Standard

Thanks for Suggesting Better Default Settings

Many thanks go out to everyone who added one of the 90+ suggestions for the Better Defaults collection. Impress is currently in focus for Project Renaissance, so any suggestions relevant to Impress (presentation application) have now been taken to be evaluated by the iTeam. Those entries are therefore now in italics.

If you have default settings that you wish were standard, then you can still add them to the list on the wiki page. Even if your suggestion conflicts with a suggestion made by somebody else, add it to the list. That is important for the iTeam to know.

The mission of Project Renaissance is...

“Create a User Interface so that OpenOffice.org becomes the users' choice not only out of need, but also out of desire”

...so, the UX community wants to know your desires, in this case, for default settings in the various OOo applications.

I'm looking forward to seeing even more action in the Renaissance subproject "Better Defaults". For example, Chris has been fleshing out his Grid Handling wiki page and would welcome any comments and feedback on the ideas there. As the iTeam looks at each suggestion, many wiki pages may arise to get into the nitty gritty details. So be on the look out for more calls to action.

Thanks again to those of you who have shared your thoughts so far. 

Liz

03/05/2010, source: GullFOSS

QA weekend 2010 in Essen, Germany

I'm back from this year's QA weekend in Essen, Germany.  There were several discussions about various QA related topics and deep discussions related to the QA team of the German native language community. All in all we had a lot of fun and were productive. Some information about the planning details of this event can be found here (in German only...sorry)

03/05/2010, source: GullFOSS

ODF at 5 Years

Five years ago today, on May 1st, 2005 OASIS approved Open Document Format 1.0 as an OASIS Standard.  Id like to take a few brief minutes to reflect on this milestone, but only a few.  Were busy at work in OASIS making final edits to ODF 1.2.  Were in our final weeks of that revision [...]

01/05/2010, source: Rob Weir: An Antic Disposition

The Naming of Standards

I am occasionally asked, what is the correct name of the ODF standard?  Is it OpenDocument Format?  Or is it Open Document Format, with a space between Open and Document? Id like (hopefully) to clear this up. The naming decision happened back in 2004.  At that point Sun had contributed their specification for the OpenOffice XML format [...]

28/04/2010, source: Rob Weir: An Antic Disposition

Why some compilers suck more than others

scdetect.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol 
(?queryInterface@?$WeakImplHelper1@VXInteractionRequest@task@star@sun@com@@@cppu@@UAA?AVAny@uno@star@sun@com@@ABVType@4567@@Z)
scdetect.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol 
(?acquire@?$WeakImplHelper1@VXInteractionRequest@task@star@sun@com@@@cppu@@UAAXXZ)
scdetect.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol 
(?release@?$WeakImplHelper1@VXInteractionRequest@task@star@sun@com@@@cppu@@UAAXXZ)
../wntmsci12.pro/bin/scdmi.dll : fatal error
LNK1120: 3 unresolved externals 
dmake:  Error code 2, while making '../wntmsci12.pro/bin/scdmi.dll'

class FWE_DLLPUBLIC RequestFilterSelect : public ::cppu::WeakImplHelper1< ::com::sun::star::task::XInteractionRequest > 
{ 
public: 
    RequestFilterSelect( const ::rtl::OUString& sURL ); 
    sal_Bool isAbort() const; 
    ::rtl::OUString getFilter() const; 

public: 
 
    virtual ::com::sun::star::uno::Any SAL_CALLgetRequest() throw( ::com::sun::star::uno::RuntimeException ); 

    virtual ::com::sun::star::uno::Sequence< ::com::sun::star::uno::Reference< 
        ::com::sun::star::task::XInteractionContinuation > >
        SAL_CALL getContinuations() throw( ::com::sun::star::uno::RuntimeException ); 
 
private: 
    ::com::sun::star::uno::Any m_aRequest;
    ::com::sun::star::uno::Sequence< ::com::sun::star::uno::Reference< 
        ::com::sun::star::task::XInteractionContinuation > > m_lContinuations; 

    ContinuationAbort* m_pAbort; 
    ContinuationFilterSelect* m_pFilter; 
};

class RequestFilterSelect_Impl; 
class FWE_DLLPUBLIC RequestFilterSelect 
{ 
    RequestFilterSelect_Impl* pImp; 

public: 
    RequestFilterSelect( const ::rtl::OUString& sURL ); 
    ~RequestFilterSelect(); 
 
    sal_Bool isAbort() const; 
    ::rtl::OUString getFilter() const; 
 
    com::sun::star::uno::Reference < ::com::sun::star::task::XInteractionRequest > GetRequest(); 
};

27/04/2010, source: GullFOSS

New: OOo-DEV 3.2.1 Developer Snapshot (build OOO320m16) available

Developer Snapshot OOo-Dev OOO320m16 is available for download.

OOO320 is the development codeline for upcoming OOo 3.2.x releases.

If you find issues within this build please file them to OpenOffice.org's bug tracking system IssueTracker.

Download:
http://download.openoffice.org/next

Release Notes:
http://development.openoffice.org/releases/OOO320m16_snapshot.html

MD5 checksums:
http://download.openoffice.org/next/md5sums/OOO320m16_md5sums.txt

27/04/2010, source: GullFOSS

New: OOo-DEV 3.x Developer Snapshot (build DEV300m77) available

Developer Snapshot OOo-Dev DEV300m77 is available for download.

DEV300 is the development codeline for upcoming OOo 3.x releases.

If you find issues within this build please file them to OpenOffice.org's bug tracking system IssueTracker.

Download:
http://download.openoffice.org/next

Release Notes:
http://development.openoffice.org/releases/DEV300_m77_snapshot.html

MD5 checksums:
http://download.openoffice.org/next/md5sums/DEV300m77_md5sums.txt

26/04/2010, source: GullFOSS

Weekly Links #7

lpOD languages platforms OpenDocument lpOD 0.9.1 Granada is released View lpOD 0.9.1 Granada is released lpOD 0.9.1 has just been released, together with its documentation. You can download lpOD 0.9.1 here. tags: ODF Workshop on Document Freedom Presentations Open Technologies Resource Center OTRC organized one day workshop regarding Free Document Formats on Document Freedom [...]

25/04/2010, source: Rob Weir: An Antic Disposition

Why I like Oracle’s $90 ODF Plugin

There has been a flurry of news articles about Oracles price change on their (formerly Suns) ODF Plugin for MS Office.  What was previously free (as in beer), at least for individual use, is now sold for $90 and with a minimum quantity of 100.  The broad coverage (ZDNet, BusinessWeek, CNET,  NBC, IDG, etc.)  of [...]

21/04/2010, source: Rob Weir: An Antic Disposition

Just 10 More Days

There are just ten more days till the end of April, so you know what that means...it is almost May.

:-)

No, seriously, you have ten more days to make suggestions to improve default settings in Impress as part of the Renaissance subproject "Better Defaults".

The wiki page has been visited 1414 times as of this moment, so if you haven't seen the growing list there yet, get a move on and possibly even add your own favorite default setting improvement.

If, however, default settings are not on your personal list of "oh yeah, gotta change that!" stuff, but you still want to help, then here is the opportunity you've been waiting for: A nice little list (OK...not really, but the huge one I had before this worked like a stun-gun so this is like a squirt gun) of Issues that might fit the criteria for better defaults. When you find one that you think sounds good, add that issue (especially the number) to the wiki page.

Thank you everybody who has already "been there and done that".

Liz

20/04/2010, source: GullFOSS

What's the Status of Project Renaissance?

Doing laps in the pool and jogging through the park have done wonders for thinning out the presentation application. Is it getting more sexy as a result? We think so. ;-) Have a look at the most recent monthly status update presentation to see for yourself how Impress is shaping up.

Discussion is taking place on the ux-discuss mailing list, so if you are curious or have some points to add, head on over there and jump right in. 

:-) Liz

19/04/2010, source: GullFOSS

Weekly Links #6

Group:OpenDocument/Reject LibrePlanet Can you please resend your attachment in OpenDocument format? I refuse to accept Microsoft Word documents or Microsoft Excel documents, because using proprietary formats is bad for freedom and bad for the web. Please visit http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/opendocument to get started with OpenDocument today tags: ODF And the Winners are… The Nokia Guide You guys are fantastic, [...]

11/04/2010, source: Rob Weir: An Antic Disposition

ODF Performance Tip #1: Don’t re-compress images

ODFDOM is an open source (Apache 2.0) Java library for reading, writing and modifying ODF documents.  It runs standalone, not requiring OpenOffice.org or any other editor to be installed.  It operates directly on the ODF document itself. One of the things were focusing on in the next release of (the 0.9 release) is optimizing the performance, [...]

07/04/2010, source: Rob Weir: An Antic Disposition

Weekly Links #5

Making the Grade With the Open Document Format HOSEF conducts a monthly ‘Open Source Pizza’ so that people can learn more about what is happening with Free and Open Source Software. Thіѕ presentation is about the adoption of the Open Document Format by the University of Hawaii’s College of Education. tags: ODF ODFDOM for Java: Simplifying programmatic control [...]

04/04/2010, source: Rob Weir: An Antic Disposition

ODF Plugfest

02/03/2010, source: Open Document - Online Community for the OpenDocument OASIS Standard

Open document formats in the public sector

05/01/2010, source: Open Document - Online Community for the OpenDocument OASIS Standard

OfficeReader

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26/12/2009, source: Open Document - Online Community for the OpenDocument OASIS Standard

ezComponents Document

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26/12/2009, source: Open Document - Online Community for the OpenDocument OASIS Standard

Drupal ODF Import

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25/12/2009, source: Open Document - Online Community for the OpenDocument OASIS Standard

YaBS

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28/11/2009, source: Open Document - Online Community for the OpenDocument OASIS Standard

OASIS Announces Public Review of OpenDocument Format for Office Applications Version 1.2

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16/11/2009, source: Open Document - Online Community for the OpenDocument OASIS Standard

ODFDOM - the new opensourced multi-tiered API for the ISO OpenDocument Format

ODFDOM is the name of the upcoming free OpenDocument framework sponsored by Sun Microsystems Inc.

It will be the next evolutionary step after AODL and Odf4j. Designed together with their architects with the intent to provide an easy lightwork programming API for the ODF developer community. ODFDOM is meant to be portable to any object-oriented language.

The first pre-version of the Java 5 reference implementation of ODFDOM is planned to become available under LGPL3 in May 2008.

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25/04/2008, source: Svante Schubert's blog