Bruce Martin wrote:
Hi Robin:
The other day I saw an add-on that does some of this in Oo, however this has
inherent limitations.
If you deal with images this way the images, as a whole will be displayed as
vectorially controlled. This means that the whole image will be loaded with
your Oo file, which can make very big and potentially unwieldy files.
Also there are commonly many other issues with photos etc. that need to be
addressed in a true image manipulation manner.
For this reason I suggest you take the time and patience with your work
needed to preformat the pictured in something more appropriate, such as Gimp
(open source, often comes with Linux but Windows versions available) before
bringing them into Oo.
Tedious if there are many pictures to process. A lot depends on how much
programming effort the OP is prepared to put in. If he knows (or has a
friend who knows) perl or python, say, it'd not be too hard to knock
something up that resized the images and generated the required OOo
input file, fully automatically from an image list. Either perl or
python has ready access to the ImageMagick libraries (simple resizing is
a doddle), and a bit of reverse engineering on an example OOo file in
the format he needs would show the xml required, and xml is easy enough
to spew out naively from any program.
The need expressed for file selection (context menu) would be the
hardest, and possibly most irrelevant to this list, part. Also highly
OS-dependent. I'd have thought drag-and-drop would be easier on the
user, but again, non-trivial to program and again OS-dependent.
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Mike Scott mike <at> <removeme>.scottsonline.org.uk
Harlow Essex England
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