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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Oct 16 08:07:42 -0700 2006 ------- I am soorry to bother again, I had no knowledge of the document quoted, what I must say is that while the "save as image" command could be of some use, the "color depth" command is by no means replaced by it, since its main use was to quickly obtain much lighter Draw documents when the color depth of the images embedded was not critical and the docs were large. Alas, I am missing it EVERYDAY since I often use Draw documents as large container for a collection of related images whose first goal is to be printed at command: since in low-medium quality printing 256 color images are OK, before I could save the Draw docs at reasonable size without compromising image resolution (which is more important). Now I have to implement a complicated process of clipboard tranfer of each image to a specific bitmap application and back after color reduction..... 5 times more time wasted. By the way the command was not perfect since the actual color depth of the selected image was not greyed out in the "color depth" submenu, so it was impossibile to know if the image was ALREADY in 256 colors or not. With this addiction it would be just GREAT for me! I had a quick glance at the document quoted and noticed a specific comparison with MS office equivalent context menu, which is surely relevant, but the fact that MS office has no equivalent command should not, IMHO, motivate its deletion. To end with, (but this could be another issue really), the clipboard transfer from OO to "Xnview" (a notoriuos freeware bitmap app) does not work: the image pasted in XnView is both distorted and muc lower resolution if compared with the original copied from the OO document. This forced me even to change app to operate on the color depth (other apps do not have this problem when pasting images copied from OO). An acceptable alternative could be to put a context menu command that allows to open the embedded image with the associated external application in classical OLE fashion: now when you import an image in a Draw doc, if you double click on it you open the text editing on the image, and there is no command to edit the image externally and then go back to its OO placement. To end with it, of course it is not the placement in the context menu of the command in itself that is strictly necessary: the command could be placed in the "format menu" as well, or simply in the bitmap editing toolbar with an appropriate icon. I hope to have overwhelmed everybody, thanks for listening! --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
