Re: feature/barcode feedback sought ...

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On 26/01/15 21:31, Michael Meeks wrote:

>     <draw:custom-shape draw:style-name="gr1" draw:text-style-name="P1"
> draw:layer="layout" svg:width="8.128cm" svg:height="6.35cm"
> svg:x="5.445cm" svg:y="5.064cm"
>
>    draw:engine="org.libreoffice.draw.barcode" draw:data="LibreOffice
> prototype, native QR code rendering, thanks to Collabora">
> ...
>     </draw:custom-shape>
>
>       It -looks- like this code was intended to add a rather sexy extension
> point for custom shapes via the drawing::XCustomShapeEngine IDL file.
> Usually I love to hate UNO - but in this case it looks like what could
> be possible there is rather sexy.
>
>       My -hope- is that this with minimal tweaking would allow me to have
> arbitrary python plugins rendering interesting document content - and
> also serializing their rendered state as an OLE-style preview to the
> XML.

It seems to me that you are saying that with the appropriate tweaking,
this can be used to generate other, non-barcode images.
A heraldic construction kit, for example. ^1


Am I reading too much into what you wrote?



^1: This is only an example. I fully sympathize with those individuals
and groups that are horrified by the thought of Joe Sixpack creating
their own crest, without any idea of what they are doing, much less why
they are doing so.

jonathon
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