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COLLECTIVE ACTION – COME AND SEE HOW
LIBREOFFICE GOT IMPROVED WITH PUBLIC MONEY!
LIBREITALIA CONFERENCE 2019 - PALERMO, 11 MAY 2019
MARINA LATINI

TERMINOLOGY

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FREE SOFTWARE
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The term Free Software was created in 1986 by Richard M. Stallman.
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Free Software refers to freedom, not price.
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It guarantees its users the essential four freedoms.
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The absence of at least one of these freedoms means an application is
proprietary, so non free software

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THE FOUR FREEDOMS

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THE CAMPAIGN
https://publiccode.eu/

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LIBREOFFICE - DOUBLE MEANING
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LibreOffice is
1. the leading free office productivity suite
installed by millions of users worldwide
2. a wonderful worldwide community
with hundreds of friends, contributors and companies around the globe
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The Document Foundation (TDF) as legal entity is
– a nonprofit ”Stiftung” (foundation) based in Berlin
”The objective of the foundation is the promotion and development
of office software available for use by anyone free of charge”
– does not contain a product name on purpose

A LARGE NUMBER OF CONTRIBUTORS AND USERS...

...THAT ASK ALSO FOR PROFESSIONAL SUPPORT

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FRAMEBORDERS
313392119522C21A6ECD14403D6F92C948149DF7
LO5.2LO6.2

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FRAMEBORDERS
313392119522C21A6ECD14403D6F92C948149DF7
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Used widely in LO – Tables in all apps, Frames for Objects (OLE/Writer
frames, ...)
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Partially Broken due to non-optimal enhancements
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Non-trivial matching/geometric solution
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Solution needs to work in all visualizations/resolutions
(screen/PDF/print/...)

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FRAMEBORDERS
313392119522C21A6ECD14403D6F92C948149DF7
LO5.2 LO6.2

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REPLACE SVGFILTER USING SVGIO
3087011E2EB810866276E270A6FC61A7E0998FEC
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Replacement of LibreOffice SVG filter in favour of SVGIO
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Two different import Filters (historically grown)
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Difference between insert/open SVG
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Varying quality with no explanation → not acceptable
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More info available: Armin held a presentation at last
year‘s LibreOffice Conference in Tirana about that

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REPLACE SVGFILTER USING SVGIO
3087011E2EB810866276E270A6FC61A7E0998FEC
LO5.2 LO6.2

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ROTATEFLYFRAME(1|2|3)
FREELY ROTATABLE FLY FRAMES IN
LIBREOFFICE WRITER
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FlyFrames could only be rotated in 90-degree steps
(historical reasons, but workarounds)
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Question of functionality/comfort, but also compatibility
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Huge change/effort needed to isolate and securely manipulate old structures
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More info available: Armin held a presentation about that at FOSDEM‘18 in
Brussels

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ROTATEFLYFRAME(1|2|3)
FREELY ROTATABLE FLY FRAMES IN
LIBREOFFICE WRITER

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EDITVIEWOVERLAY: ALLOW EDITVIEW TO
RUN IN OVERLAY
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Performance problem with ‚expensive‘ MasterPage backgrounds
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Text input massively slow
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Solution: Move EditEngine visualization to Overlay during active TextEdit

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GETTING WRITER CHANGE-TRACKING
READY FOR THE ENTERPRISE
• Fix for the terrible “showing changes will avoid delays” problem
• Michael re-architected the way Writer tracks changes
• Thanks to City of Munich for funding the work!

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UPDATING THE LIBREOFFICE KDE
BACKEND
• Bubli implemented a native KF5/Plasma backend on top of Jan-Mareks Qt5
backend
• Thanks to City of Munich for funding the work!

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LIBREOFFICE: DIGITAL SIGNATURES & ENCRYPTION
WORKFLOWS

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CONTACTS AND INFO
> Marina Latini
> Senior migrations & deployments engineer at CIB
> The Document Foundation chairperson
> LibreItalia founder
> openSUSE advocate and board member
> Fedora enthusiast and previously Ambassador
@deneb_alpha - CIBsoftwareGmbH
marina.latini@cib.de

OUR PRODUCTS:
HTTP://LIBREOFFICE.CIB.DE/
WE CAN HELP:
HTTP://LIBREOFFICE.CIB.DE/SUPPORT
THANK YOU!
Credits:
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Some graphics and texts from the Public Money, Public Code campaign by FSFE
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Some graphics and texts from „Modernising Public Infrastructure with Free Software“ by FSFE
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Some slides from Armin Le Grand and Thorsten Behrens