Contributing to OpenOffice.org – English

This is a brief description of the code contributed to OpenOffice.org by Giuseppe Castagno.

Being implemented now:

A digital signature OpenOffice.org extension, for XAdES signatures, a project not part of the vanilla OpenOffice.org distribution.
Development platforms used: GNU/Linux™. Verified in Windows™ as well.
Further information can be found on the project site: OOoXAdESSigIT.

Future contribution (still thinking about them, though):

None at this time.

Contributed:

Issue and : new index generation features for Writer; available in OpenOffice.org version 3.0.
Issue : PDF/A-1, the PDF/A-1a version (ISO 19005-1:2005).
Issue : exporting PDF with relative hyperlinks; (and a few related proposal).
Issue : implementation of standard security protection for PDF files.
Issue : new features added to the PDF export filter, was very helpful to become confident with OpenOffice.org C++ source code.

Some proposed patches: , ...

This is the list of contributed code, comments, patches.

A special crafted developer version of OpenOffice.org is available here.

The former OOPDFBuilder Java application page (no longer maintained) is still available here.