Hi Folks,
I am Ravi, a computer sc. student, playing with Ubuntu Edgy Linux.
I use OpenOffice primarily, in absence of any good alternative.
Here I want to draw your attention towards a very irritating feature in
OpenOffice. When i copy paste anything from a webpage, the images are
downloaded to OpenOffice sheet, and then displayed. Till then,
everything is hanged up.
And after some minutes, that images go off the buffer, so when scrolling
down to a page containing images, it again reloads the images form the
URL. This greatly effects the work flow. I spend most of the time just
looking at the pages and waiting them to complete refresh. It also
doesnt refresh all the images, but only those Images, which are in
current view portion in the page.
So, if i have to work on a large document, generally containing a lot
images besides text, i have to spend hours which would have been some
minutes work.
So, I think OOO.org is negatively effecting my work flow.
Solution:
I think a better solution would be to copy all those images in a temp
folder /tmp/somerandomNonUsedIDDirectory till the document is open, and
then when the user saves his document, it would place those pictures in
either compressed tar or uncompressed in folder in the current document
directory. Though it would be a quick solution, but there is something
much better, though i dont know it it can be practical.
Another solution is to put the binary data in ASCII format embedded in
the ODT XMLs of file, and from there, it can be fetched. So, this way,
if user transfers the document to somewhere else, he doesnt haev to
worry about the extra-object containing file (that from my previous
solution). So, everything will be integrated with some fast compression
and with their MIME data table, so to recognize what type of data is
that in ASCII data segement of the XML (ODT) file.
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I dont know if it is possible, (i am not XML guy), but i think it would
be lot better. If i get positive responses, then maybe, i will jump into
it for research n Development.
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Ravi
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