Re: Rotating images by 90,180 and 270 degrees.-

> > I do not plan on adding any UI to AbiWord proper to access this feature.
> > The UI would only be in OLPC Write.
>
> Hello Martin,
>
> My two cents on this.
>
> I believe that we should provide the same functionality in all platforms.
> Obviously OLPC is a very special platform.
>
> If we follow the approach described the result is that we will have Abiword
> documents with rotated images created in OLPC that cannot changed (there is no
> UI for the rotation property) in all the other platforms. Also, if the code
> for rotation is not implemented in the other platforms the image is going to
> be shown rotated.
>
> My suggestion is to add the rotation UI interface for all platforms and
> implement the rotation. I can do the Win32 (it has no native support) since I
> did implement rotations for libgdiplus library a few years back.

I don't see how Martin's proposal is anything else than what we always
do. Do you just don't like the property, and want to store the image
always rotated in the file (that would make more sense to me, as older
abi's would still be able to open them properly)?

Marc
Received on Sat Aug 18 14:36:15 2007