Re: Abiword and Images

On Sun, 17 Sep 2006, Ryan Pavlik wrote:

> Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 18:10:57 -0500
> From: Ryan Pavlik <abiryan@ryand.net>
> To: Alan Horkan <horkana@maths.tcd.ie>
> Cc: Giancarlo <gcmelzi@yahoo.it>,
> Abiword is Awesome <abiword-user@abisource.com>
> Subject: Re: Abiword and Images
>
>
> Alan Horkan wrote:
> > On Sun, 17 Sep 2006, Giancarlo wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Ryan, Alan, Hubert,
> >> thanks for your response.
> >>
> >> Thanks for the suggestions: this is what I undestood:
> >> - abiword is not the program I need when I have to mix text and images
> >> (500k image can't generate 5M document!)

> > I looked but strangely couldn't find a bug report about native JPEG
> > support and I would have sworn there was an ancient bug report about the
> > issue. (Does that mean it has been fixed or I just cannot find it?)

In this case being able to link to external images rather than embedding
them directly would also solve the users stated problems and it might be
easier to implement
http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1775

> Just to add to that - I am not sure that OOo would be any better in this
> regard.

I am sure OpenOffice.org would be better than Abiword in this specific
case. In OpenOffice the original JPEGS are stored within the JAR/ZIP in a
Pictures/ subdirectory (unzip an OpenOffice document and see for
yourself). Not only do they avoid the penalty of coverting from JPEG to
PNG they also aviod the small amount of extra bloat from converting binary
to base64 encoded text.

> I'd recommend trying saving as .zabw (zipped) to reduce the
> filesize (AbiWord does it transparently, just like it were any old file
> format) before installing OOo on an old machine, to avoid frustration.

Using ZABW is nonetheless a very good recommendation for anyone worried
about file size.

Sincerely

Alan Horkan

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Received on Mon Sep 18 01:55:12 2006