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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Aug 7 10:28:04 -0700 2006 ------- There is a fundamental misunderstanding here on how this bug actually occurs. The original description is correct but may not be entirely clear, judging by later comments. The source of the bug is the actual copy/paste or drag-and-drop process, not necessarily any saved-to-disk format. On a Mac OS X uses built-in Quicktime libraries to handle image-based clipboard data. It is this processing by Quicktime that causes the issue. There is *never* a saved format involved in the process of creating these files and that in itself is what causes the issue. This issue does not occur when you use Insert->Image from a file on disk. Because of this it is difficult or impossible to actually attach an image with a similar problem. In fact it may be that no image has this problem, it is simply an issue of interpretation when a given image format is embedded in an Office format. The format of the image probably remains the same, it just gets marked as something proprietary to Quicktime and then OOo.org and Office don't know what format it is and do not attempt to read it. My guess is they both have the capability to read it, or if not then certainly libraries could be installed that would support reading it. I am told however that Quicktime on a Mac provides more image support than on a PC, so a Quicktime install on a PC may not in itself allow reading of this format. Still, there must be some solution. I think the important things to keep in mind about this bug are the following: 1: It occurs *only* with copy/paste or drag-and-drop, *not* with Image->Insert or with simple loading of an image from disk. No image on disk is ever involved, the image is taken directly from another application, and so the issue is tied to the transfer of the image through the clipboard. 2: It appears to be specific to documents originally created in MS Office, although I do not think the same functionality has been tested in OOo.org. In fact I'm not even sure such functionality (cut/paste image) would work in OOo. org for Mac, but it should be tested. 3: The attached documents here and at "duplicate" Issue 65981 are the best examples that exist of this problem and these should be used to diagnose and correct it. 4: No fix exists for this from Microsoft. MS's own Powerpoint and MS Word are also unable to deal with images formatted this way and this is the case with all PC versions of Office. This means there are a lot of unhappy Mac Office users trying to make presentations to view on PC's and there is a significant opportunity here for OOo.org to gain a notable advantage over even Office 2007. I suggest this bug be given a fairly high priority given the opportunity to develop a significant feature that MS Office does not yet have and the potential positive marketing that could bring. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
