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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Problem with Kword inserting pictures
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date:       2000-06-27 20:17:38
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On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, David Faure wrote:
> KWord doesn't really touch the file, it only resizes the image if needed.
> AFAIK the image that is saved to the disk (into the tar file) is exactly
> the initial one.

Is it? It should, think of JPEG images which have quality loss each time they 
are re-encoded, but I stronly doubt that it currently is the case.

>  But images and cliparts are not embedded
> documents, they are currently handled by the app itself. An image
> collection class in kofficeui is still missing, in koffice. We've been
> talking about it for quite some time now :-)
> This class could take care of this issue of finding external pictures
> (and asking the user what to do if the picture is missing, for instance).
> No, I did not just volunteer. konqueror keeps me busy for 175% of my time
> already :-)

/me hides away.

Cheers,
Waldo
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