Here is my weekly update on what is hot in our development teams in calendar week (CW) 35.

IN FOCUS

PDF Import in OpenOffice.org
Motivation – Goal – Dashboard

“ PDF is a widely used format to exchange documents containing text and graphics between different applications and different platforms. OpenOffice.org is currently able to create such PDF documents via export filters that are already available within every major OpenOffice.org application. Unfortunately, OpenOffice.org is not able to import PDF documents back again, although this is one of the more often requested features.

The document created by importing a PDF file should resemble the original as close as possible; nevertheless PDF per se does not lend itself to that end easily: most PDF files contain no information about layout or document structure at all. Therefore a PDF file will never be able to be imported on a 1:1 basis. We have to define goals to define what level of similarity must be achieved on a basis of feasibility. “

Please find more at: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/PDF_Import

WEEKLY SCHEDULE

• CALC
  http://sc.openoffice.org/

  • Started:

    • Enhanced data input

    • DataPilot: Manual sorting

  • Ongoing:

    • OOXML import filter

    • ODF formula specification

    • ODF formula implementation

    • External references import

  • Finished:

    • Enhanced formula input

    • Enhanced data input

• CHART
  http://graphics.openoffice.org/chart/chart.html

  • Started:

    • -

  • Ongoing:

    • OOo 2.4 bugfixing

  • Finished:

    • -

• DATABASE
  http://dba.openoffice.org/

  • Started:

    • Resolve OOo 2.3 showstopper with the Report Builder extension

    • Re-factor Base's "Advanced Properties" user interface, for easier extensibility and the mid-term move to the configuration

  • Ongoing:

    • migrate the BasicIDE to XModels (needed for macros in database documents)

  • Finished:

    • analyze crash reports/stack described in issue crash in opening database, creating table

• IMPRESS, DRAW & GRAPHIC SYSTEM LAYER
  http://graphics.openoffice.org/
  http://gsl.openoffice.org/

  • Started:

    • -

  • Ongoing:

    • Professional Presenter Package => PresenterView implementation

    • Working on Aqua Port

    • OOXML import filter

    • OFT support for PDF

  • Finished:

    • -

• WRITER, MATH & FRAMEWORK
  http://sw.openoffice.org/
  http://framework.openoffice.org/

  • Started:

    • Writer: Preparation of Presentations for OOoCon 2007

  • Ongoing:

    • Framework: supporting CH2000 developers to integrate UOF-Filters

    • Framework: make font size toolbar controller sfx2 independent

    • Framework/Writer: Google Summer Of Code 2007: Language status bar control (EditEngine)

    • Writer: Make code warning free

    • Writer: OOXML Import: Tokenizing of shapes

    • Writer: OOXML Import: Mapping of table properties

    • Writer: Google Summer Of Code 2007: Defining requirements for an improved "notes" functionality

    • Writer: improved language selection; language selection by switching keyboard language (Windows only)

    • Writer: discussing ODF1.2 proposals

    • Writer: Rectangular selection mode

    • Writer: MediaWiki Extension

    • Linguistic: rework linguistic configuration to support multi-pathes and extensions for dictionaries

  • Finished:

    • -

• PROGRAMMABILITY
  http://api.openoffice.org/
  http://extensions.openoffice.org/
  http://installation.openoffice.org/
  http://ucb.openoffice.org/
  http://udk.openoffice.org/
  http://util.openoffice.org/

  • Started Tasks:

    • Extensions infrastructure: Online Update: Gather exact requirements for OO.o 2.4

  • Ongoing Tasks:

    • Extensions infrastructure: Extendable OO.o Help System: Concept

    • OO.o Online Update: Download & Install for non-windows platforms: Concept

    • UNO API Tests: Make tests usable for every developer: Step 1: Put all currently failing testcases in the exception list of the respective CVS module

    • NetBeans OOo API Plugin: feature implementation for version 1.1 ( details)

    • NetBeans OOo API Plugin: Unit tests, function test for NetBeans 6

    • UCB: HTTPS support: concept & evaluation

  • Finished:

    • -

• ODF / XML
  http://xml.openoffice.org/

  • Started:

    • -

  • Ongoing:

    • OASIS ODF 1.2 Specification Document

    • OASIS ODF Metadata Proposal

    • Metadata OOo Conf presentation (Research)

  • Finished:

    • OASIS ODF 1.2 Specification Document - Exchange RelaxNG XML by RelaxNG Compact

• ODF TOOLKIT
  http://odftoolkit.openoffice.org/

  • Started:

    • -

  • Ongoing:

    • Restructuring of OOo packages: Separation URE / Office (Windows / Mac OS)

    • UNO-API for ODF Toolkit: Study Use Cases

    • Unified Office Format (UOF) filter

    • ODF4J: ODF document model

    • AODL : Coordination of Chart implementation by CH2000 employees

  • Finished:

    • ODF4J: content generation/manipulation (prototype)

    • Restructuring of OOo packages: SCP changes: 1:1 mapping file:package

    • Restructuring of OOo packages: Use Delay-Loaded DLLs for Windows OOo DLLs

• VISUAL DESIGN
  http://ui.openoffice.org/VisualDesign/

  • Started:

    • -

  • Ongoing:

    • Icon redesign – Galaxy project

    • Design of OOo extensions website

  • Finished:

    • Proposals for new disabled icon design

• ALL TEAMS

  • Started:

    • -

  • Ongoing:

    • Fixing showstoppers for OOo 2.3

    • Bugfixing for OOo2.4

    • Patch evaluation and integration

    • Evaluation of requirements in Issuetracker

  • Finished:

    • -