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FOSDEM is a non-commercial, volunteer-organized European event centered on free and open-source software development – and one of the biggest such events of its kind. Normally it takes place in Brussels, but due to the pandemic, it’ll be online this year. And the LibreOffice community will be there! We’ll have 25 talks about the technology […]

Railroad diagram for the Firebird database you can see/get it here (following the instructions)https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/firebird/issues/6898

Railroad diagram for the Firebird database you can see/get it here (following the instructions)https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/firebird/issues/6898Zip file with self contained images is here (generated with the above instructions).

Happy new year, everyone! Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks of 2021 – click the links to learn more… We started December by announcing the LibreOffice Technology DevRoom Call for Papers for FOSDEM. This year, FOSDEM will take place online once again, and the […]

I wish everyone the best for 2022! Hoping a great year for LibreOffice, all the FOSS users and developers, and above that, everyone around the globe! Hoping to see: more and more contributors, many more nice features, lots of helpful bug fixes, and increased user satisfaction. See you in 2022! Read the rest

I wish everyone the best for 2022! Hoping a great year for LibreOffice, all the FOSS users and developers, and above that, everyone around the globe! Hoping to see: more and more contributors, many more nice features, lots of helpful bug fixes, and increased user satisfaction. See you in 2022!

What is basegfx? First, what is basegfx, how it is used for converting angle units, and why we should care? If you look at the list of LibreOffice modules in docs.libreoffice.org, you will see that basegfx is one of the LibreOffice modules. It ... [More] contains the “algorithms and data types for graphics“, and it provides useful functions for LibreOffice graphics code. We care because using these functions helps us write cleaner code using well tested methods. basegfx classes in LibreOffice API documentation In the LibreOffice code related to angles, there are many instances of angle unit conversion. For instance, conversion from radians (rad) to degrees (deg) or vice versa is common. However, currently some of these unit conversions directly divide or multiply the angle values by or in π/180. Alternatively, a better approach would be using basegfx fTools methods. If you look at include/basegfx/numeric/ftools.hxx in the LibreOffice source code, you will find these methods among others: rad2deg() and deg2rad(). The usage is obvious as the names imply: converting from radians (rad) to degrees (deg), and vice versa. Consider this expression that converts fAngle from degrees to radians: 3.14159265359/180.0*fAngle A more understandable form is: basegfx::deg2rad(fAngle) In addition, if you look closely to the function declaration, it is visible that you can pass a multiplier named DegMultiple: template [Less]

From all of us at Firebird Project, we'd like to wish you a safe and happy holiday season and a peaceful and prosperous new year! And here is a short overview of Firebird events in 2021.

The LibreOffice Quality Assurance ( QA ) Team is happy to announce LibreOffice 7.3 RC1 is available for testing! LibreOffice 7.3 will be released as final at the beginning of February, 2022 ( Check the Release Plan for more information ) being ... [More] LibreOffice 7.3 RC1 the third pre-release since the development of version 7.3 started in mid June, 2021. Since the previous release, LibreOffice 7.3 Beta1, 241 commits have been submitted to the code repository and 130 issues got fixed. Check the release notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice. LibreOffice 7.3 RC1 can be downloaded from here for Linux, macOS and Windows, and it will replace the standard version. In case you find any problem in this pre-release, please report it in Bugzilla ( You just need a legit email account in order to create a new account ). For help, you can contact the QA Team directly in the QA IRC channel or via Telegram. LibreOffice is a volunteer-driven community project and your help is much appreciated. Happy testing!! … [Less]