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Renaming all README files for all top level modules to README.md, applying no content change at this stage to be able to track history of the files. These files should be edited to use correct Markdown syntax later. Change-Id: I542fa3f3d32072156f16eaad2211a397cc212665 Reviewed-on: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/112977 Tested-by: Jenkins Reviewed-by: Christian Lohmaier <lohmaier+LibreOffice@googlemail.com>
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Filter registration and some simple filters (also descriptions).
Desperate splitting of code into small shared libraries for historical reasons presumably (OS/2 and Windows 3.x). The libraries produced from the code in each subdirectory of filter/source/graphicfilter are graphic format import or export filters. But they don't have uniform API. Some have either a GraphicImport or GraphicExport entry point, and are loaded and used in a uniform fashion from code in svtools/source/filter/filter.cxx. Others have different API and are loaded from other places. For instance "icgm" has ImportCGM, and is loaded and used by sd/source/filter/cgm/sdcgmfilter.cxx (!). Svgreader is used for "File->Open" and then to choose the svg file. For "Insert->Picture->From File", see svgio/source/svgreader directory.
==================== filter configuration
The filter configuration consists of two parts, the type definition in filter/source/config/fragments/types/ and the actual filter definition in filter/source/config/fragments/filters/.
Each file type e.g. text file should be represented by exactly one type definition. This type can then be referenced by several different filters, e.g. calc text, writer text.