Nicolas Mailhot wrote:

> Is there a way to take an OO.o doc, get all letters replaced with X or x,
> metadata stripped, embedded images replaced by blanks with the same sizes,
> and every other names (variables, bookmarks, fields, references,
> color/style names) anonymized?

Replacing the text should be easy, also stripping the metadata.
Replacing the images might be a bit harder, perhaps creating an empty
image or metafile of the same size and replacing the embedded one is
possible through direct file access. Another approach is replacing
embedded images by links (to anywhere). I assume that the document
should behave as before even with the broken links.

The problem is: what else needs to be exchanged, what is really
necessary and what's just paranoia?

So we need a complete list and we need to dicuss what needs to be on it.
As an example, why do you mean that color and style names need to be
replaced?

> As most bugs happen on complex documents, most complex documents are
> created in corp-space and corporations don't like disseminating internal
> info for debugging purposes I suppose I'm far from the only one with
> knowledge of bugs but no way to report them.

Yes, I totally agree. We could get much more (and better) bug documents
and of course that would be fine. I thought about such a macro by myself
some time ago but I just didn't have the time to write one. If we
assembled a list together perhaps someone familiar with macros could do
the job. It would be a very valuable contribution as it would help to
improve the quality of OOo.

Best regards,
Mathias


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