Re: OLPC and non-PNG image support

On Sun, 6 May 2007, J.M. Maurer wrote:

> Date: Sun, 06 May 2007 23:06:04 +0200
> From: J.M. Maurer <uwog@uwog.net>
> To: Jeff <web.kiddo@free.fr>
> Cc: AbiWord Developer Mailing List <abiword-dev@abisource.com>
> Subject: Re: OLPC and non-PNG image support
>
>
> > "yeah, but there is this huge bug that Abiword does not really support
> > jpg, so you're actually seeing a jpg converted to png, and you will end
> > up with a document weighting 100MB"*
>
> Seriously, this is not a bug but a design decision.

More of a design trade-off than a decision per se.

I never had any impression other than that it was intended to be fixed
"later"

> > This _needs_ to be fixed.
>
> I agree.

In the shorter term couldn't/wouldn't GDK Pixbuf be used to provide a not
particularly cross toolkit solution for OLPC (further to the not
particularly cross toolkit image rotation feature Martin added for OLPC)?

OLPC and jpeg support and ensuing back compatibility issues might be good
cause and opportunity to bump the file format version number.

-- 
Alan