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On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 01:59:14AM +0300, Andres Gomez <agomez@igalia.com> wrote:
Actually, I've been reading in LibO's Help which is the purpose of the
options under "Options -> Load/Save -> MS Office" and they seem to be
really attached to OLE importing/exporting.

Seeing that SmartArt also has this "native data" and "replacement
graphics" parts, that sounds like an XML-based OLE thing to me.

The best and most obvious option seems to be "Options -> [Text Document|
Spreadsheet|Presentation] Options -> Compatibility". However, proper UI
with check boxes seems to be only "Text Document". "Spreadsheet"
"Compatibility" subcategory is quite different and it doesn't really
seem to face the task of selecting compatibility options among document
formats. "Presentation" doesn't even have a "Compatibility" subcategory.

At least for Writer, the Compatibility options tweak the layout, not the
import/export filters.

In any case, my best guess is that we should go with these
subcategories. As we are facing now just Writer I suppose we can just
add another checkable option and, once we start implement similar
compatibility for "Calc" and "Impress" we can also add the needed items
and subcategories.

What do you think?

I would go with a "SmartArt to LibreOffice Draw or reverse" option, next
to the other Microsoft Office options (if we already have such a
category, and SmartArt is totally MS-specific, it makes sense to me to
have it there). By default, I would keep the current behavior (SmartArt
loaded as a group shape + attached metadata to survive roundtrip), and
the disabling the load could trigger converting to metafile, disabling
save could trigger dropping the metadata and do a pure groupshape
export.

Of course, this is just a suggestion, other approaches may be equally OK
as well.

Miklos

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