Zak. On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 03:43 +0200, Zak McKracken wrote:
> > > > http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/91/Arrows_bend.svg > > > > So if I understand you correctly, the blurred shadow is correctly > > imported in OOo. > > > > And here, > > > > LibreOffice 3.3.2 > > OOO330m19 (Build:202) > > tag libreoffice-3.3.2.2 > > > > I get an unblurred arrow as the shadow. > > Yes, that's it. I tested it under Windows XP, and it worked just fine. > > So it sounds like a good improvement, I wonder if it will be used in > > LibO. (It should be [legally] possible, unless they've already changed > > their license, right?) > > According to the comments in the OOo Issue tracker it wasn't even very > hard to do, although I cannot be the judge of that. But I guess there must > be some GPL libraries out there that will do most of the work. > > >> I think there's a general problem with office software and vector > >> graphics (not just in Open/LibreOffice), and the only package that > >> gets it completely right to my knowledge is LaTeX, even though that > >> works only for EPS. > > > > It is. Other examples: IIRC, MS Word (dunno about SVG support, but I > > doubt it has any), apart from the Windows and Enhanced MetaFile formats, > > only supports enhanced postscript, in the same way OOo and LibO do > > (actual rendering is relayed to printing). > > > > Someone trying to embed an EPS into MS Word: > > http://help.lockergnome.com/office/Importing-eps-files-Word--ftopict699269.html > > > A list of supported formats and their limitations (in MS Word): > > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290362/en-us > > Oh, that's just great! The Microsoft website detects that I am running > Linux and kindly disables the complete article, because it is not relevant > for me. Way to go, guys! Good that my browser can just mask itself :) I was able to both pages without any problems using Linux and Opera. I have not had major problems with microsoft.com in Linux when I had to visit it > Interesting to see that MS Word has the same problem with EPS as OOo. Only > prints right on PS printers, otherwise only a preview image. I wonder if > this is a principal problem with EPS, or whether OOo more or less copied > the behaviour from word simply because it's easier to implement. I > circumvent the Problem by printing to file, then using ps2pdf and then > printing the PDF file wherever I want, but the downside is that ps2pdf > automatically turns raster graphics into JPGs and reduces the resolution, > so while keeping my EPS graphics alive it will reduce the printing quality > of non-vector graphics, and this when the whole point was to get a good > printing quality! > (Does anyone know a way to keep that from happening? the OO-internal pdf > converter is even worse on embedded eps, but can preserve the raster > images) > > Zak > > -- Jay Lozier [email protected] -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] In case of problems unsubscribing, write to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
