Re: [Libreoffice] An image editing extension for writer

Michael,

I agree with your comments, specialy to make this tool available to 
other than Writer.
But can you have a look at a important OO and LO 's weakness: there is 
no way to make some "Print Intentions" par Document. When placing a 
Graphic, we need to know what resolution is needed to reproduce a grahic 
on a certain device(screen laserprinting, offset tect...). Actual, OO 
and alsoo LO got this information from the GraphicFileHeader, what is  
wrong concept, the author of a graphic or picture do not know under what 
conditions his work will been shown or printed.
So we need to set par Document this Printer Intentions, and i do not 
know if this properties can been placed in the ODF format ?

Greetz

Fernand
> Hi Lakmal,
>
> On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 02:32 +0530, lakmal padmakumara wrote:
> > I'm engaging in developing an extension(OXT) for writer
> > which allows users to
>         Wow :-) there are some great features here - and lots of good work. I
> love the effort you've put in :-)
>
>         Personally - (as other people have mentioned) - I would love to have
> much of this functionality integrated into every LibreOffice copy we
> ship. We have a number of these features already present in the
> 'Picture' dialog in writer (crop, flip and so on) - but these are not
> present in calc and draw/impress (as far as I recall) which is sad.
>
> >      * Download images to the app directly from Flickr.com
>         This is sweet :-) there was a chunk of work done by a GSOC student,
> that needs completing around the gallery - to allow clipart images to be
> downloaded; and I suspect that this integration would build on top of
> that really nicely: are you interested in helping to complete and expand
> that work ?
>
> > You need Java Run Time (JRE) in order to use this product
>         And of course; we'd tend to prefer things written in C++, and
> integrated into the core (as has been discussed).
>
> > As this is my first step towards this wonderful and giant Open source
> > developing community ,I will be really glad if you can hit me back
> > with any feed backs .Please comment on the above pages mentioning any
> > drawbacks/bugs/improvements .
>         So - first - be encouraged :-) it looks like a fun extension to have
> written, and a testament to your progamming skill. Of course, from a
> user-experience perspective, I think we want to focus on improving the
> integrated feature set, rather than providing (better) duplicates
> outside - having two ways to do everything: one better, one worse in the
> product just confuses people :-)
>
>         Thanks !
>
>                 Michael.