andreasma_at_LibreOffice

Last Saturday and Sunday we, Jacqueline Rahemipour, Simon Wilper, Thomas Hackert and I, represented LibreOffice at the local Open Source "OpenRheinRuhr" in Oberhausen, Germany. We had to struggle with some difficulties. First there were some discussions about the process of the application of the booth for LibreOffice at this event. But we ignored this discussion.
But second there was a major difficulty to get to the OpenRheinRuhr on Saturday morning, because it was pouring. The streets and motorways were full of water. But all of us arrived in Oberhausen and had two days of interesting discussion with visitors and members of other Open Source projects. Many of them wanted to know more about our decision to create a foundation and the way of LibreOffice in the near future. We had a FAQ-Paper (thanks to Jacqueline) at our both, that we handed over to the visitors in addition to the face-to-face information. We get only positive feedback from our visitors (including members from other projects) about the founding of a foundation and the way of (to) LibreOffice. So it was very important for LibreOffice and the DocumentFoundation, that we have been at the OpenRheinRuhr. Especially because we could provide attendees, which visited the booth of OOo, with additional information.
The OpenRheinRuhr was a well organized event in a refurbished industrial building, the "Rheinische Industrie Museum". We are going to attend this local event next year again.

I had a little fight wit git push in the last days. Today i won this fight with the help of the LibreOffice Community and get my first commits pushed to the repository. There are some more easy tasks remaining for the next days.

I looked on the site of Plone.org and saw that the new Plone 4 is released. I'll try it out and check, if it works with the current content (database) of the OOoAuthors site. If every thing works as expected, I'll work on a customized design for OOoAuthors. Once the prototype is ready, I'll invite other members of OOoAuthors to try it out and give feedback. I hope to finish this first step at the end of September.

I looked on the site of Plone.org and saw that the new Plone 4 is released. I'll try it out and check, if it works with the current content (database) of the OOoAuthors site. If every thing works as expected, I'll work on a customized design for OOoAuthors. Once the prototype is ready, I'll invite other members of OOoAuthors to try it out and give feedback. I hope to finish this first step at the end of September.

I updated my notebook (core 2, 2 GHz) short time ago from openSuSE 11.1-x64 to 11.3-x64. In the past I used this machine once in a while to build OpenOffice.org vanilla. But my last try was some month ago, because I was busy with other tasks. When I installed the openSuSE 11.3 on my box, I get every service for my daily use running first. After my return from our holiday trip I started work on the missing features of my new Linux. I reconstructed the build environment for OpenOffice.org with the install of some more rpm. After this I was able to run ./configure --with-system-mozilla --disable-ldap --disable-binfilter without an error.

But after source LinuxX86-64Env.Set.sh and ./bootstrap the make command stoped in the directory cppunit with an error:
`/local/ooovanilla/ooodev_hg/newworkingDEV300/cppunit/unxlngx6.pro/misc/build/cppunit-1.12.1'
dmake: Error code 2, while making './unxlngx6.pro/misc/build/so_built_cppunit'

I can't find a solution for this issue but I get help from Thorsten Behrens in the go-oo channel. He pointed me to a patch in the go-oo repro: build-allow-system-cppunit-1.12.0.diff.
This patch changes the line in the configure.in from
PKG_CHECK_MODULES( CPPUNIT, cppunit >= 1.12.1 )
to
PKG_CHECK_MODULES( CPPUNIT, cppunit >= 1.12.0 )

I had to do a autoconf and to restart ./configure with the addition of the option --with-system-cppunit.
This solved the error inside the cppunit folder.

But I ran into an new error short afterwards. This error had to do with the new compiler gcc 4.5. The error message told me that this compiler is unsupported. I had to do another patch of the code. I get this patch also from the go-oo repro. It is written down in the file cppu-lbnames-enable-gcc-4.5.diff. I had to patch the file cppu/inc/uno/lbnames.h.
I changed two lines:
elif (__GNUC__ == 4 && __GNUC_MINOR__ <= 4)

to

#elif (__GNUC__ == 4 && __GNUC_MINOR__ <= 5)

and

#error "Supported gcc majors are 2 , 3 and 4 <= 4.4. Unsupported gcc major version."

to

#error "Supported gcc majors are 2 , 3 and 4 <= 4.5. Unsupported gcc major version."

Now every thing build fine and I get OpenOffice.org-3.3.0-9511-x64-rpm.

The upcomming release of OpenOffice.org, version 3.3 contains two new options for the PDF export. This options are: AllowDuplicateFieldNames and EmbedStandardFonts. They are both from type boolean. The second option embed the fonts into the PDF file. The other option allow duplicated field names in forms.
You can download this new version of OOoPDFConverter from the Sourceforge website: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ooopdfconverter/files/ or with this direct link. If you want to know something about the available options of OOoPDFConverter you can visit the website https://sourceforge.net/apps/phpwebsite/ooopdfconverter/webpage/id/7http://sourceforge.net/apps/phpwebsite/ooopdfconverter/webpage/id/7.
OOoPDFConverter works in a terminal on Windows, Solaris, Linux and MacOS (there with a special java option: see my blog post http://sourceforge.net/apps/phpwebsite/ooopdfconverter/blog/id/5.

You can post your experience and use cases of OOoPDFConverter into one of the forums on http://sourceforge.net/projects/ooopdfconverter/forums. You can also post and discuss ideas about new features there, which you want to see in OOoPDFConverter.