Introduction

[Giuseppe Castagno <gi...@acca-esse.eu>]

Hi there,

a few words to introduce myself.

My name is Giuseppe Castagno, I live in very small town near Turin, Italy.
I'm 56 years old and I work as a free-lance programmer.

I participated in OpenOffice.org, there I was known as beppec56 (at 
openoffice.org).

Years back, in OpenOffice.org I implemented some stuff in the PDF
export area (https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=12626),
among them the PDF/A export 
(https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=59651),
on Writer I added a type of document index
(https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=53420).

I am looking forward to working with the Apache OpenOffice
community.

-- 
Kind Regards,
Giuseppe Castagno
Acca Esse http://www.acca-esse.eu
giuseppe.castagno at acca-esse.eu

Re: Introduction

[Raphael Bircher <r....@gmx.ch>]

Hi Giuseppe

Am 01.05.12 13:25, schrieb Giuseppe Castagno:
> Hi there,
>
> a few words to introduce myself.
>
> My name is Giuseppe Castagno, I live in very small town near Turin,
> Italy.
> I'm 56 years old and I work as a free-lance programmer.
>
> I participated in OpenOffice.org, there I was known as beppec56 (at
> openoffice.org).
>
> Years back, in OpenOffice.org I implemented some stuff in the PDF
> export area (https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=12626),
> among them the PDF/A export
> (https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=59651),
> on Writer I added a type of document index
> (https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=53420).
>
> I am looking forward to working with the Apache OpenOffice
> community.
Cool, then welcome back!
Well, I don't know you, i think you was active befor my time at OOo. But
the stuff you added looks realy good, Thanks for come back.

Greetings Raphael



-- 
My private Homepage: http://www.raphaelbircher.ch/

Re: Introduction

[Yue Helen <he...@gmail.com>]

Hi Giuseppe,

Welcome back!

Helen

2012/5/1 Giuseppe Castagno <gi...@acca-esse.eu>

> Hi there,
>
> a few words to introduce myself.
>
> My name is Giuseppe Castagno, I live in very small town near Turin, Italy.
> I'm 56 years old and I work as a free-lance programmer.
>
> I participated in OpenOffice.org, there I was known as beppec56 (at
> openoffice.org).
>
> Years back, in OpenOffice.org I implemented some stuff in the PDF
> export area (https://issues.apache.org/**ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=12626<https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=12626>
> ),
> among them the PDF/A export (https://issues.apache.org/**
> ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=59651<https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=59651>
> ),
> on Writer I added a type of document index
> (https://issues.apache.org/**ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=53420<https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=53420>
> ).
>
> I am looking forward to working with the Apache OpenOffice
> community.
>
> --
> Kind Regards,
> Giuseppe Castagno
> Acca Esse http://www.acca-esse.eu
> giuseppe.castagno at acca-esse.eu
>

Re: Introduction

[Oliver-Rainer Wittmann <or...@googlemail.com>]

Hi Giuseppe,

On 01.05.2012 13:25, Giuseppe Castagno wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> a few words to introduce myself.
>
> My name is Giuseppe Castagno, I live in very small town near Turin, Italy.
> I'm 56 years old and I work as a free-lance programmer.
>
> I participated in OpenOffice.org, there I was known as beppec56 (at
> openoffice.org).
>
> Years back, in OpenOffice.org I implemented some stuff in the PDF
> export area (https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=12626),
> among them the PDF/A export (https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=59651),
> on Writer I added a type of document index
> (https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=53420).
>
> I am looking forward to working with the Apache OpenOffice
> community.
>

great to have you on the project.

I am expecting that your future work will be as valuable as your former work.

Best regards, Oliver.

Re: Introduction

[Pedro Giffuni <pf...@apache.org>]

On 05/09/12 12:47, Giuseppe Castagno wrote:
> Ciao Pedro,
>
> sorry for the delay but I first had to build AOO, just to be 
> re-acquainted with it
>

No problem ... I've been rather busy on other stuff too :).

> On 05/01/2012 04:32 PM, Pedro Giffuni wrote:
>
> ...
>
>>
>>
>> I have a wishlist for that module:
>>
>> 1 - We need to update SampleICC: the original version is just too
>> old and is not available online anymore. Maybe the SampleICC
>> developers may be interested in having the ICC profile as a
>> contributed sample.
>
> I think this is the current:
>
> http://www.color.org/sampleicc.xalter
>
> It moved to 1.6.4, but I don't know if the color profile we need 
> changed, for this we need to have a look at the relevant PDF/A ISO 
> Norms (was ISO 19005-1:2005 plus ISO 19005-1:2005/Cor.1:2007(E)).
> A quick look at the ISO web tells me nothing changed wrt PDF/A-1[ab]
>
> That is: if the color profile didn't change I don't think there's a need
> to update it.
>

FreeBSD's LO port uses SampleICC 1.6.6. I think the library has had
some fixes but honestly I am not sure how relevant the changes are.
It's a matter of updating the tarball and re-adapting the patches
(easier said than done as I noticed in my attempt to update
apache-commons).

>>
>> 2- We don't really need to have the icc profile built every time and
>> we don't have the silly limitations imposed by the GPL so I
>> was thinking of moving the icc profile generation out of the build
>> (maybe to tools) and have the generated profile directly in vcl.
>
> I agree, though I'm not sure how to implement it ATM.
>

I think it's easy: we just go back to using the vcl header directly, like
you did originally (inc/vcl/sRGB-IEC61966-2.1.hxx), and we have the
external program overwrite the existing header .

This can wait though, I think step 3 is more interesting.

>>
>> 3- It would be great if people could download and use the
>> Adobe profile as an alternative (the stax module gives a similar
>> option).
>
> mm, this can be changed, putting the color profile in configuration 
> and giving the possibility to add a new one in some way (adding 
> through an extension mechanism may be?), or do you have something else 
> in mind?
>

I was thinking about something really primitive with manual intervention
in the lines of main/stax/download/README_stax-1.2.0.jar

that is:

if a file called main/icc/download/ sRGB_IEC61966-2-1.icc exists,
it is used to generate the header, otherwise the free icc profile
is generated and used for the header.

This basically means that your create_sRGB_profile.cpp is split in two:
one part calculates the profile if needed, another dumps the header.

>
>>
>> If you feel like working on any of that do let me know and I
>> will help review/commit it. Also, while not strictly mandatory,
>> you are welcome to submit an iCLA:
>>
>> http://www.apache.org/licenses/icla.pdf
>>
>> It's not as demanding as the previous SUN agreement but
>> it is important if you want to become a committer later on.
>
> submitted to the mail address show in the ICLA itself.
>

Thanks!

Pedro.

Re: Introduction

[Giuseppe Castagno <gi...@acca-esse.eu>]

Ciao Pedro,

sorry for the delay but I first had to build AOO, just to be 
re-acquainted with it

On 05/01/2012 04:32 PM, Pedro Giffuni wrote:
> Benvenuto Giuseppe!
>
> On 05/01/12 06:25, Giuseppe Castagno wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> a few words to introduce myself.
>>
>> My name is Giuseppe Castagno, I live in very small town near Turin,
>> Italy.

...

>
> Wow.. and I have to say that I was thinking just yesterday how
> good it would be to have *you* around ;).
>
> I am relatively new to the project but I started with some code
> you wrote. I did some small changes to the icc module, mostly to
> change the license to Apache License 2, since using copyleft for
> the icc profile is simply a bad idea.
>
> I have a wishlist for that module:
>
> 1 - We need to update SampleICC: the original version is just too
> old and is not available online anymore. Maybe the SampleICC
> developers may be interested in having the ICC profile as a
> contributed sample.

I think this is the current:

http://www.color.org/sampleicc.xalter

It moved to 1.6.4, but I don't know if the color profile we need 
changed, for this we need to have a look at the relevant PDF/A ISO Norms 
(was ISO 19005-1:2005 plus ISO 19005-1:2005/Cor.1:2007(E)).
A quick look at the ISO web tells me nothing changed wrt PDF/A-1[ab]

That is: if the color profile didn't change I don't think there's a need
to update it.

>
> 2- We don't really need to have the icc profile built every time and
> we don't have the silly limitations imposed by the GPL so I
> was thinking of moving the icc profile generation out of the build
> (maybe to tools) and have the generated profile directly in vcl.

I agree, though I'm not sure how to implement it ATM.

>
> 3- It would be great if people could download and use the
> Adobe profile as an alternative (the stax module gives a similar
> option).

mm, this can be changed, putting the color profile in configuration and 
giving the possibility to add a new one in some way (adding through an 
extension mechanism may be?), or do you have something else in mind?

Of course changes to vcl and/or standard configuration may be needed,
because currently the sRGB profile is hard-coded into vcl.

Just some free-running ideas, though.

>
> If you feel like working on any of that do let me know and I
> will help review/commit it. Also, while not strictly mandatory,
> you are welcome to submit an iCLA:
>
> http://www.apache.org/licenses/icla.pdf
>
> It's not as demanding as the previous SUN agreement but
> it is important if you want to become a committer later on.

submitted to the mail address show in the ICLA itself.

-- 
Kind Regards,
Giuseppe Castagno
Acca Esse http://www.acca-esse.eu
giuseppe.castagno at acca-esse.eu

Re: Introduction

[Pedro Giffuni <pf...@apache.org>]

Benvenuto Giuseppe!

On 05/01/12 06:25, Giuseppe Castagno wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> a few words to introduce myself.
>
> My name is Giuseppe Castagno, I live in very small town near Turin, 
> Italy.
> I'm 56 years old and I work as a free-lance programmer.
>
> I participated in OpenOffice.org, there I was known as beppec56 (at 
> openoffice.org).
>
> Years back, in OpenOffice.org I implemented some stuff in the PDF
> export area (https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=12626),
> among them the PDF/A export 
> (https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=59651),
> on Writer I added a type of document index
> (https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=53420).
>
> I am looking forward to working with the Apache OpenOffice
> community.
>

Wow.. and I have to say that I was thinking just yesterday how
good it would be to have *you* around ;).

I am relatively new to the project but I started with some code
you wrote. I did some small changes to the icc module, mostly to
change the license to Apache License 2, since using copyleft for
the icc profile is simply a bad idea.

I have a wishlist for that module:

1 - We need to update SampleICC: the original version is just too
old and is not available online anymore. Maybe the SampleICC
developers may be interested in having the ICC profile as a
contributed sample.

2- We don't really need to have the icc profile built every time and
we don't have the silly limitations imposed by the GPL so I
was thinking of moving the icc profile generation out of the build
(maybe to tools) and have the generated profile directly in vcl.

3- It would be great if people could download and use the
Adobe profile as an alternative (the stax module gives a similar
option).

If you feel like working on any of that do let me know and I
will help review/commit it. Also, while not strictly mandatory,
you are welcome to submit an iCLA:

http://www.apache.org/licenses/icla.pdf

It's not as demanding as the previous SUN agreement but
it is important if you want to become a committer later on.

Again, absolutely welcome!

Pedro.