Re: My final post

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> On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Hubert Figuiere wrote:
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>> Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 01:36:07 -0500
>> From: Hubert Figuiere <hfiguiere@teaser.fr>
>> To: Alan Horkan <horkana@maths.tcd.ie>
>> Cc: Abiword is Awesome <abiword-user@abisource.com>
>> Subject: Re: My final post
>>
>> Alan Horkan wrote:
>>
>> >>Features I'm really looking forward to is OpenDocument import and the
>> >>ability to run Quicktime panels in my document (like animated GIFs).
>> >
>> >
>> > I dont believe anyone has mentioned animation or video support and it
>> > seems like an unlikely feature to be implemented.
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>> This is a really old feature on MacOS, as when QuickTime was release,
>> Apple patched the PICT support to allow doing it in any application.
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> Do you think a similar technique could be applied to gdkpixbuf?
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> For most users I expect it would be enough to be able to embed a static
> preview (of the first non black frame) and provide some way to open an
> external video player. Presumably the plugin would vaguely resemble what
> AbiPaint does.
>
>> But I don't think it will happen anytime soon:
>
> Sure, nothing happens if a developer is not interested in doing it and I'm
> not convinced many people badly need to be able to embed video in Abiword
> ('cept maybe those of us (ab)using abiword instead of Powerpoint). I'd
> also hate to see what would happen if you mime encoded a video file into
> a .abw document.
>

Actually, this is not totally out of the question, at least for the Linux
version. Jean Brefort is making good progress at implementing a generic
mozilla-plugin for AbiWord, so that AbiWord can embed all the mozilla
(netscape) plugins. So embedded animated flash and other video stuff may
come to the Linux version of AbiWord. Not that I can see much use for this
in a word processor.

Cheers

Martin

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Received on Tue Nov 8 16:45:57 2005