https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=35835
orcmid <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #15 from orcmid <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Aivaras Stepukonis from comment #14) > In the age of digital media and the spreading practice of reading on screen, > pixel has become one of the primary units of measurement. Adding it to > Apache OpenOffice would be a great gift to the community of AOO users. In the ODF 1.2 specification, lengths in pixel units (px) are permitted and in some places required. So there is no impact on interoperability on input of documents that have such units. This is different than what the application provides in its user interface, however. There is an interoperability concern with this feature, concerning interchange at the ODF level with other applications. There is also a consideration with regard to exporting to non-ODF formats. At a high level, there seems to be benefit in providing this, although most graphics support is based on transforms. That is, drawings are in abstract dimensions and then projected onto renderings of particular sizes. This is generally done under the covers, but it is an important consideration that allows smooth appearance of graphics when rendered at different physical resolutions. This ability to scale with preserved fidelity needs to be reconciled with the use cases being discussed here. Working at the raw bitmap level is probably not the design point for OpenOffice. There are many free tools for doing that and inserting such rigid images into OpenOffice documents if that is what is wanted. These factors need to be considered when determining how to act on this extension request. Because we are talking about some pretty significant deeply-integrated code, I would not expect anything in the near future. A "How To" on how to deal with fixed rigid images might be helpful in the meantime. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the issue. You are the assignee for the issue.
