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as in ODT implementation of Google Docs, and as in DOCX supporting basic requirements of creating digital and professional print media. This patch fixes DOCX import (tdf#121668) and it gives the required PDF export, too. In the case of solid color, color gradient, hatching, pattern and tiled bitmap (except stretched bitmap), this patch removes the obsolete white border around the text area, if the user modifies the page background. Note: likely the white border was good for home printing in former times, but now it forms only a serious barrier for most users to create de facto design standard whole page background formatting instead of its unacceptable poor man's version. Note 2: the OpenDocument standard refers XSL/CSS here, and browsers adapt background settings to the body margin area the same way, as Google Docs and fixed LibreOffice do. More information: tdf#112195 "(Whole-Page-Filling) - Allow page background to cover the whole page (reloaded)" tdf#33041 "Allow page background to cover the whole page, not only within page borders/margins" tdf#121668 "FILEOPEN DOCX Page Color created with Word disappears on the margins" ooo#9370 "Off-margin page background" (https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=9370) Change-Id: I7c6c96ceaf7102b38e3e5c1ed767db0ee63520ab Reviewed-on: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/63914 Reviewed-by: László Németh <nemeth@numbertext.org> Tested-by: László Németh <nemeth@numbertext.org> |
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TEMPLATE.SOURCECODE.HEADER |
LibreOffice
LibreOffice is an integrated office suite based on copyleft licenses and compatible with most document formats and standards. Libreoffice is backed by The Document Foundation, which represents a large independent community of enterprises, developers and other volunteers moved by the common goal of bringing to the market the best software for personal productivity. LibreOffice is open source, and free to download, use and distribute.
A quick overview of the LibreOffice code structure.
Overview
You can develop for LibreOffice in one of two ways, one recommended and one much less so. First the somewhat less recommended way: it is possible to use the SDK to develop an extension, for which you can read the API docs here and here. This re-uses the (extremely generic) UNO APIs that are also used by macro scripting in StarBasic.
The best way to add a generally useful feature to LibreOffice is to work on the code base however. Overall this way makes it easier to compile and build your code, it avoids any arbitrary limitations of our scripting APIs, and in general is far more simple and intuitive - if you are a reasonably able C++ programmer.
The build chain and runtime baselines
These are the current minimal operating system and compiler versions to run and compile LibreOffice, also used by the TDF builds:
- Windows:
- Runtime: Windows 7
- Build: Cygwin + Visual Studio 2017
- macOS:
- Runtime: 10.10
- Build: 10.12 + Xcode 9.3
- Linux:
- Runtime: RHEL 6 or CentOS 6
- Build: GCC 4.8.1 or Clang
- iOS (only for LibreOfficeKit):
- Runtime: 11.4 (only support for newer i devices == 64 bit)
- Build: Xcode 9.3 and iPhone SDK 11.4
At least Clang 3.4.2 is known to be too old to pass the configure.ac check "whether $CXX supports C++17, C++14, or C++11" in its current form (due to the #pragma GCC diagnostic ignored "-Wpragmas" that it does not understand).
If you want to use Clang with the LibreOffice compiler plugins, the minimal version of Clang is 5.0.2. Since Xcode doesn't provide the compiler plugin headers, you have to compile your own Clang to use them on macOS.
You can find the TDF configure switches in the distro-configs/ directory.
To setup your initial build environment on Windows and macOS, we provide the LibreOffice Development Environment (LODE) scripts.
For more information see the build instructions for your platform in the TDF wiki.
The important bits of code
Each module should have a README
file inside it which has some
degree of documentation for that module; patches are most welcome to
improve those. We have those turned into a web page here:
However, there are two hundred modules, many of them of only peripheral interest for a specialist audience. So - where is the good stuff, the code that is most useful. Here is a quick overview of the most important ones:
Module | Description |
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sal/ | this provides a simple System Abstraction Layer |
tools/ | this provides basic internal types: 'Rectangle', 'Color' etc. |
vcl/ | this is the widget toolkit library and one rendering abstraction |
framework | UNO framework, responsible for building toolbars, menus, status bars, and the chrome around the document using widgets from VCL, and XML descriptions from /uiconfig/ files |
sfx2/ | legacy core framework used by Writer/Calc/Draw: document model / load/save / signals for actions etc. |
svx/ | drawing model related helper code, including much of Draw/Impress |
Then applications
Module | Description |
---|---|
desktop/ | this is where the 'main' for the application lives, init / bootstrap. the name dates back to an ancient StarOffice that also drew a desktop |
sw/ | Writer |
sc/ | Calc |
sd/ | Draw / Impress |
There are several other libraries that are helpful from a graphical perspective:
Module | Description |
---|---|
basegfx/ | algorithms and data-types for graphics as used in the canvas |
canvas/ | new (UNO) canvas rendering model with various backends |
cppcanvas/ | C++ helper classes for using the UNO canvas |
drawinglayer/ | View code to render drawable objects and break them down into primitives we can render more easily. |
Rules for #include directives (C/C++)
Use the "..."
form if and only if the included file is found next to the
including file. Otherwise, use the <...>
form. (For further details, see the
mail Re: C[++]: Normalizing include syntax ("" vs
<>).)
The UNO API include files should consistently use double quotes, for the benefit of external users of this API.
loplugin:includeform (compilerplugins/clang/includeform.cxx) enforces these rules.
Finding out more
Beyond this, you can read the README
files, send us patches, ask
on the mailing list libreoffice@lists.freedesktop.org (no subscription
required) or poke people on IRC #libreoffice-dev
on irc.freenode.net -
we're a friendly and generally helpful mob. We know the code can be
hard to get into at first, and so there are no silly questions.