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(related patch https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/201925) When exporting a document to pdf, if the document has inserted images in a vector format (svg or pdf itself) the file was embedded in the exported pdf for maximum quality. Now with this changes we’ve reused the code that embeds inserted images to also work with...
Related issue: https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/issues/14257 In the browser we have limited control on how the rendering is scheduled. To be sure our code is not causing long hangs or jitter in the animation we should be smart about how we process incoming events and present them on the screen. In the past...
At some stage the possibility to export PDF documents from the new Collabora Office unintentionally went away. That was during the final frantic work before the initial release, when parts of the UI were radically improved, and thus it did not get fixed right away because things were a “moving...
Collabora Office isn’t new — it’s been powering productive work for years. But this week marks something different: the development infrastructure now lives under its own roof. A new Gerrit instance, a migrated CI, a fresh renamed main branch, and a new Technical Committee making decisions in the open. The...
Update: 2026-04-07 Update: 2026-04-11 Let’s kick the developers out! In the ongoing saga of The Document Foundation (TDF), their Membership Committee has decided to eject from membership all Collabora staff and partners. That includes over thirty people who have contributed faithfully to LibreOffice for many years. It is interesting to...
It is useful to check that basic functionality in CODA-W is not broken accidentally by commits to other parts of the code. We have lots of existing tests for COOL functionality in general that use Cypress. That technology is not usable for testing CODA, as its JavaScript part does not...
A “metric” spinbutton is a spinbutton that has an associated unit: cm/inch, points and percentage are common units used. The previous implementation used the standard...
One of the features of Collabora Online has been a way to ensure that log files (of reasonable verbosity) don’t include any personally identifying information....
Basics: Office documents like ODF (odt, …) and OOXML (docx, …) can have so called Fields embedded in the text. Fields can automatically update the...
Related commit: pptx: export overrideClrMapping in slide layouts In presentations saved as PPTX file format there is a possibility to map some theme colors differently...
A problem was reported about Writer, and we investigated. In a document with a lot of content, on certain editing operations, an entire table would...
I worked with Gokay on a new document compare view for COOL Writer. Part of that feature is to be able to highlight the matching...
These developments were made in February, 2026. Available in 26.04 only. Collabora Online can be built against musl libc musl libc is an alternative implementation...
Among a host of other accessibility enhancements, we have implemented the W3C Accordion Pattern for our expanders, as used in the sidebar and dialogs, where...
Mostly for historical reasons, LibreOffice has its own `SvMemoryStream` class (for, you guessed it, writing in-memory streams). For quite a while now, code in the...
Collabora Online puts a lot of effort into containing your changes inside a new file-system jail per document. We use chroot or unprivileged user namespaces...
