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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: How to import embedded clipart (wmf/emf) in KWord
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2001-09-13 7:37:57
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On Mercredi 12 Septembre 2001 23:33, thierry lorthiois wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 September 2001 10:58, David Faure wrote:
> >
> > I am perfectly convinced that we want to keep a vector format,
> > and we _do_. 
> 
> Hi david,
> 
> I don't understand why you want to convert in an internal format ?
s/you want to convert/KOffice currently converts/
I didn't write this, it's from Reggie's initial implementation.

> Why not keeping the original format of data (emf, wmf, wordart,...)
> inside kword and a specialised painter for each format.
> advantages:
> -you don't introduce corruption with the conversion
> -you don't have to deal with design incompatilities between format
> -the import/export filters can keep intact unknown objects
> -cool evolution: if a wordart editor is created, or the painter 
>   is improved in the next release, users can see the change
>   on old kword files
> -and easier to implement
Hmm, compared to something that's already implemented,
the last argument doesn't hold :)

> objections: 
> ???
- need to keep both the QPicture and the original data, in the KoClipart object
(as I already said).
Sounds like the only way to go, though.

Note that with QPixmap we don't have to do that (we simply save it
back in the original format we had), and by symmetry, that's why
it was done the same way for cliparts.

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