Michael Meeks wrote:
My -hope- is that this with minimal tweaking would allow me to have arbitrary python plugins rendering interesting document content -
Yep
and also serializing their rendered state as an OLE-style preview to the XML.
Maybe not that easily. And are you storing the original bits (that then get rendered into QR) somewhere already?
Of course - I'd love to have some feedback on my sanity - quite possibly this is utterly crazy; quite possibly there are 3x easier & better ways to achieve the same thing (?) =)
Yeah, why not sticking in a png or an svg directly into the document?
Known problems:
* for QR codes (but prolly not bar-codes) the idea of
representing a bitmap as a ton of polypolygons is prolly
not the greatest idea.
But also not prohibitively expensive - or how large are those QR codes getting these days? Your example seems 40x40 pixel.
* bar-code specifications:
+ some of the spec's are a bit strict: "no less
than 2mm between X and Y"
+ that gives some UI / rendering / unit constraints
+ currently not captured.
Lock resizing on the XShape?
Known bugs:
* ODF / back-compatibility - we re-export the original (in my
case smiley) custom-shape which shows up as an unhelpful
fallback for older LibreOffice'n.
That one is a bummer. You'd want to add a preview image into some wrapped draw frame then (like e.g. the svg import did it).
I'd love to have some clue on how best to fiddle with this / re-work it somewhere that it fits.
See above - I might miss the broader picture, but I think easiest would be direct embedding of the graphic. Would also solve your bitmap question. Cheers, -- Thorsten
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