https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124085
--- Comment #31 from John <[email protected]> --- Armin I apologise for my delay in responding. I confirm your observations that copying from an image editor like IrfanView does not pass information of the opened file's format; but Insert > Picture > from file does allow AOO to save the image in the file's format.I was trying to "make sense" of what I was seeing. I jumped to too many conclusions. I did a further test which adds weight to your observations being correct. I opened a JPG in IV and saved it as a PNG. I then opened the JPG in IV and copied it to clipboard; and opened the PNG in IV and copied it to the clipboard. In both cases the clipboard contents appeared to be identical in InsideClipboard. I then pasted the "copied JPG" and the "copied PNG" into Writer. The ODT contained only one file - a PNG - which strongly suggests that the clipboard content must have been identical in both cases. I reinstalled 3.4.1 and it behaves in the identical manner to (pre-release) 4.1.1, so my observation "it was OK in 3.4.1" is incorrect. It does seem as though the present way of AOO working is best, namely save in the highest quality; and if the user wants to keep his image formats, then he must use Insert rather than paste. ... but copy and paste is so much easier :-(. I shall have to rethink how I do my magazine. As an aside, I would expect users to notice that if they paste a photo from a typical camera the ODT will be much bigger than the original JPG image. I was doing some testing with many large images and soon had my ODT up to 200MB. Four images took it to 60MB. As a second completely off topic aside, it would be good if the industry came up with a "Universal image format" which was intelligent enough to scan the image pixels and save the "photo" component in JPG and the "graphic" component in PNG. We would then have minimum file size with maximum quality. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. You are watching all bug changes.
