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LibreOffice and VolunteerMatch: Welcoming new contributors

• chatmasta 8y ago
  Anyone working on porting libreoffice to wasm? Not the GUI, just the core conversion utils (like you get with ./soffice —headless). I saw some old experimental commits from 2015 in the core repo but looks like the effort was abandoned. All I want is to be able to convert docx to pdf in browser with wasm. I would be interested in working on it myself, actually, but my wasm experience is non-existent and my knowledge of libreoffice even moreso. I would be curious to hear how feasible the community thinks this is, and if it would be a relatively straightforward project or fraught with traps.
  • buovjaga 8y ago
    It did not target wasm yet back then: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Emscripten https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Emscripten Feel free to join #libreoffice-dev @ Freenode and chat with samuel_m about it, if you are willing to put in work.
    • chatmasta 8y ago
      Thanks! Yes, those are the commits/page I saw. I referred to "wasm" because Emscripten can target wasm now. But I guess back in 2015 it only targeted asm.js, is that right? I am definitely interested in exploring this. I'm going to do some preliminary research and then I'll hop onto IRC.
      • buovjaga 8y ago
        > I guess back in 2015 it only targeted asm.js, is that right? Yes, it looks like that to me.