https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58424
Priority: medium
Bug ID: 58424
Assignee: [email protected]
Summary: : Management of vector images remains inconsistent in
LibO 4.0 beta 1
Severity: normal
Classification: Unclassified
OS: All
Reporter: [email protected]
Hardware: Other
Whiteboard: BSA
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Version: 4.0.0.0.beta1
Component: Libreoffice
Product: LibreOffice
This is more the expression of a wish than a real bug report. But sort of bug
report too, if poor usability is a bug.
LibO behaviour with respect to images in vector format remains is quite
inconsistent. I was hoping to see improvements in Libo4, but apparently the
inconsistencies remain.
In the past staroffice and openoffice could only open wmf, emf and their own
metafile format as vector image format. In write, such images would simply
display. In draw and impress, they could be made editable by right clicking
them and asking for the image to be split into its elements, as if it was a
group image. Making the image editable by dividing it in elements could at time
result in some minor artifact or image change. Printing the file (or exporting
to ps/pdf) the image used to remain vector type.
Would have been great if adding support for other image formats, this behaviour
had been retained. However, now LibO supports eps, pdf, svg and all of them are
handled differently:
1) eps: only a low quality image is display. Image cannot be edited in any way.
would be great if eps files could be inserted in writer/draw/impress, having
the software render a good bitmap version for the screen and presentations
(there are many libs for rasterizing ps, which alternatively can be easily
converted to pdf and be managed as such). Furthermore, would be great if eps
could be made editable, by converting them to the LibO object format by
'ungrouping' them.
2) pdf: writer cannot open the format. Similarly draw/impress cannot insert an
image of this type. However, draw can 'open' a pdf image and in this case an
automatic conversion of the pdf to the internal object format of LibO is
perfomed, with some loss of the original image formatting.
Would be great if pdf file could be inserted in writer/draw/impress, having the
software render a good bitmap version for the screen and presentations (there
are many libs for rasterizing pdf). Furthermore, would be great if eps could be
made editable, by converting them to the LibO object format by 'ungrouping'
them.
3) svg: writer, draw and impress can all insert images of this type.
Furthermore, by 'dividing' them, they become editable in draw/impress. Good.
However, their management is very slow in LibO 4. In LibO 3 on the other hand,
writer is uncapable of 'printing' them as vector images (a bitmap is sent to
the printer at a low res). In LibO3, svg.gz files cannot be inserted.
Furthermore if svg files are inserted, they get stored uncompressed in the
opendocument file, taking a lot of space. Being xml files, they should be
compressed.
Operating System: All
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