Hi Jay,

Will download Visio today and (try to) create test files :). I do not think 
that he wants to find the documents online.... Thanks for your work :)

Liebe Grüße, / Yours,
Florian Reisinger

> Am 25.04.2014 um 00:39 schrieb Jay Philips <[email protected]>:
> 
> Hi D,
> 
> Well i was able to convince my friend's engineer father to supply two of his 
> visio files for sampling. I viewed both of them at my friend's place and both 
> opened correctly except for a slight issue with images. There were two issues 
> with images, 1) a blue outline was placed around them and 2) they were 
> transparent pngs and the transparency wasnt preserved. I hope to be able to 
> send you them tomorrow.
> 
> Jay Philips
> 
>> On 04/23/2014 04:53 PM, David Tardon wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>>> On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 02:15:56PM -0700, Robinson Tryon wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 2:26 AM, David Tardon <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/DLP/Libraries . We need files for
>>>> regression tests...isolated feature[s]...major
>>>> features...[and new formats we don't yet support].
>>>> As these would be published in a regression test repository,
>>>> we need an acknowledgement that they are available under CC-BY-SA
>>>> (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) license.
>>> CC-BY-SA 4.0 is out now:
>>> https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
>> All right. It would be probably better to use the newest version.
>> 
>>>> Concretely, we need files for [..a bunch of formats...]
>>>> 
>>> So what's our suggested workflow here?
>>> 
>>> For the acknowledgement, I think that we should have a page
>>> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/DLP/Contributors
>>> along the lines of
>>> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Developers
>>> and ask everyone to email the discuss@ list an appropriately-worded 
>>> statement.
>> Good idea.
>> 
>>> Donated files could go to
>>> - A new list/alias document-donations@
>> An e-mail address like that could be used for getting documents from
>> contributors. It would be a very poor way to make them available to
>> developers. The problem is that TDF infra does not allow attachments for
>> mailing lists.
>> 
>>> - ownCloud
>>> - An ftp server
>>> - Or??
>> - git repo, possibly using git-annex
>>   + of course that does not solve the problem how to get the files from
>>     contributors.
>> 
>>> Alongside any donated files, I'd suggest that we ask people to include
>>> the following:
>>> - The file format(s) used
>>> - The authoring programs (w/version # and OS, please)
>>> - A rough overview of the contents (e.g. "My 5th grade papers", "test
>>> documents with tables")
>>> - Licensing information (another check on licensing, plus lets us know
>>> if they are more permissive than CC-BY-SA, e.g. public domain)
>>> - The name of the original author/source
>>> - Source URL, if applicable
>> If that kind of metadata should be of any use, we would need to keep
>> the association between the metadata and the files. I suppose keeping
>> each contribution in a separate directory would work for some time, but
>> it does not scale.
>> 
>> I would also add:
>> - a PDF export or a screenshot (if possible)
>> 
>> D.
>> 
> 
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