From koffice-devel  Thu Jan 24 12:00:30 2002
From: Thomas Zander <zander () planescape ! com>
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 12:00:30 +0000
To: koffice-devel
Subject: Re: WMFs in KWord
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On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 10:25:33PM +1100, Clarence Dang wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 05:58, Thomas Zander wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 06:32:49PM +1100, Clarence Dang wrote:
> > > On Tue, 22 Jan 2002 00:00, David Faure wrote:
> > > > On Monday 21 January 2002 11:40, Clarence Dang wrote:
> > > > > I fail to see why the user should have to decide between "Choose
> > > > > Image" and "Choose Clipart"?  Is a piece of clipart, not an image=
? :)
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm asking this because I have to write extra code to deal with t=
his
> > > > > distinction between WMFs and BMPs and it looks ugly :(
> > > > > And because it's a bit of a UI issue too, IMHO.
> > > >
> > > > I have no problem with some merging in the UI, although internally =
we
> > > > still have to find out in which case we are. Patches welcome.
> > >
> > > Why do WMFs have to be separate internally?
> >
> > Clipart -> vector -> kontour object.
> > Photo -> bitman -> QImage (or possibly Krayon)
> >
> > But bottom line is; the are drawn in a different matter; so thats why.
>=20
> JPEGs are drawn differently to BMPs as well, yet they're grouped in the s=
ame category.

Thats not true, they are stored differently, but after reading them they bo=
th
produce the same data. They are consequently drawn alike.

> Isn't it possible to store the file type of the image and then choose the=
 rendering method when required?

Sure, please go ahead! As David said; "Patches welcome."   :)

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The only thing worse than failure is the fear of trying something new

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