Subject: Re: XP design for image support
From: Dom Lachowicz (cinamod@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu Apr 19 2001 - 22:06:23 CDT
Mike Pritchett writes:
>Dom -
>
>I know I have already thrown my nickle into the fray, but once again put me
>on the side of a single Raster and Vector format.
>
>My expectation as a user is that if I insert a picture in one OS, I expect
>to see that picture in AbiWord no matter what OS I am running. A complaint
>about the graphic is a wrong format so it will be skipped won't do.
Hi Mike,
This is the best argument that I've heard so far. It's still a little flawed
(or misstated at least), IMHO. If I was in your position, I'd be arguing for
each particular raster/vector format to be supported on each platform, and
not a single raster & vector format to be supported on all of them (though
this is one way to achive such said goal).
However, I remain unconvinced that embedding a JPEG as JPEG data into abi
*will* cause this effect, just that it potentially *might*. And to date, no
one has said "it *will* be difficult/impossible to do feature XXX on my
particular platform" but rather all I've heard is (abstractly) "it *might*
be difficult/impossible to do XXX one some (possibly unknown or future)
platform" which is not a good argument, IMHO. Give me facts and figures,
ideas and alternatives, not conjectures.
I've sent a mail to Paul off-list that I'm tempted to repost (at least parts
of) here.
Sorry for being irritated. It's not because of this. Lack of sleep + 2
papers to write in < 10 hrs is screwing with my head.
Dom
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