Status report: consultancy team, week 39, 2026

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Caolan

  • fair queue for CI: owner-fair-queue, a jenkins queue sorter where each person’s oldest push goes next, instead of the oldest push
  • impress autofit now shrinks line spacing before font size, like ppt, in review

Mike

  • tdf#163240

    • tdf#157028 FILESAVE PDF Tagged PDF export makes file size grow significantly
      • Also tdf#166233 FILESAVE: Tagged PDF export makes Calc size grow 15-30x
      • 3adab88af780, 7e52e9eabbda, 23e2e9c2136d
      • Finally ad4bb8ae080a and 591932953239 (encrypted case) to shrink the file size (e.g., 13.5 MB → 2.4 MB)
        • Encryption case required an audit of several hundreds of documents, to check if the work didn’t expose unencrypted data
        • 3d37f4de953e and 8171259354f2 as a follow-ups
    • tdf#163272 LibreOffice Writer → Export As → Export as PDF → Universal Accessibility (PDF/UA) Tagging issue
    • Analysis of PDF/UA compatibility with PDF 2.0
    • Ruby text-related issues - 65c62bc31aff, some more problems outstanding

  • tdf#171555 NON-BREAKING HYPHEN U+2011 fails to render after update from 25.8.4.2 (AARCH64) via LibreOffice_26.2.2_MacOS_aarch64.dmg

    • fixed in e9ce5e4424de

  • Some improvements for partial builds - afd248102673, 3ac8c7395599

Tomaz

Vector rendering for online:

  • Text layout prediction
    • Improve fidelity by tracking and buffering what keys were sent to the server
    • This makes it possible to properly merge the changes from the server and apply the keys that are still pending
    • Prepared as a branch
    • Now we need to merge that with other vector rendering changes.
  • Animations for slideshows
    • TODO
  • Adding support for missing primitives
    • Merged gradient, hatches, image fills for shapes
    • Available patterns
    • Next shadow, grow, soft edge
      • Of course modern “IE” browser engine a.k.a. Safari doesn’t support CanvasRenderingContext2D.filter
      • Need to do blurring with shadowBlur, but might be more limited
  • Merging the combined architecture patches
    • 17 down

Editeng hyperlinks as attributes (not fields)

  • Have a series of patches, need review and confirm it works as expected
  • Use the old algorithm when the legacy flag is set
    • if the settings aren’t available at all - use the new behavior
    • also limit the legacy flag for ODF 1.4 documents (1.3 is always legacy, 1.5 is always new)
    • this makes the legacy flag very limited in scope

Miklos

Worked on:

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Hi Quikee,

Editeng hyperlinks as attributes (not fields)

  • Have a series of patches, need review and confirm it works as expected
  • Use the old algorithm when the legacy flag is set
    o if the settings aren’t available at all - use the new behavior
    o also limit the legacy flag for ODF 1.4 documents (1.3 is always
    legacy, 1.5 is always new)
    o this makes the legacy flag very limited in scope

Lovely :slight_smile: Would be lovely to get that in! I wonder if there any auto-text-fitting horrors that go with URLs which Caolan might have an interest in polishing too.

Good stuff,

Michael.