Hi :) Errr, i think i don't understand Git Hub. I thought it was only for writing code and although it made it easier to collaborate with other people it was 'just' about writing code. I didn't thing it was for releasing code to "the general public". Now i'm beginning to think that view might have been too limited and out-dated.
Is it easy to get some sort of equivalent to a YouTube "channel" to help to collect together tools (such as this one) that are relevant to LibreOffice? Maybe some sort of tags or labels so that channels for Caligra, Gnome Office and others can share tools without having to duplicate the tools? Also GitHub looks a lot more elegant and professional than i expected. I was expecting it to look bad but have tons of power "under the bonnet". Regards from Tom :) On 2 November 2014 22:18, Tom Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi :) > I know it was only an alpha-release but it fits the idea of "release early > and release often" rather than trying to produce something too perfect and > then finding that no-one uses it. > > If it's possible to get it onto the Extensions website > http://extensions.libreoffice.org/ > then maybe more people could attempt to use it and maybe post bug-reports, > and maybe even help develop it further (Gpl, LGpl. Mpl or whatever > copy-left license seems best (ideally same as other Extensions use)). > > > I guess i can imagine a few finesses that probably wouldn't even be useful > to most people. So, feedback and comments would become useful. The > Extensions website seems set-up to handle that sort of thing. > > > Errr, zipped images are often not hugely smaller than their original > size. The advantage is that the zip-file ends up being a container holding > all the different bits together. Scaling reduces image's byte-size far > more. > > Regards from > Tom :) > > > > On 2 November 2014 21:56, Cley Faye <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> > The odt file is a compressed zip archive. Compressing the contained >> > pictures would hardly reduce the file size. >> >> >> That's not true. The point was (if I remember this thread correctly) that >> when designing the document, you have high-definition pictures, say >> 1200dpi, and those takes a lot of space. Now, if you want to output this >> for a projector you'll only need pictures at 90dpi, or for printing with a >> medium quality you only need 150dpi, and doing a poster you'll need the >> whole 1200dpi. >> >> >> Sending the same file with the original 1200dpi pictures to everyone sure >> is a solution, but you'll see the waste of space. It doesn't have anything >> to do with odt file being compressed; there's juste *more* informations >> with bigger images. Other (impractical) solutions could be to maintain >> multiple version of the same file, or keep the images linked to multiple >> folder, and swap them outside of LibreOffice. Not good when you manipulate >> large documents. >> >> Now, what would be nice is a way to take an odt with such large pictures, >> and produce different versions suited for different needs. You keep the >> "original", and with the press of a button, produce a separate odt file >> where the pictures are scaled down appropriately (like the option in PDF >> export). From the discussion, it looks like MS Word have something like >> this, and while mimicking Word is not a necessity, I clearly see the need >> for such an option for LibreOffice power users. >> >> 2014-11-02 22:36 GMT+01:00 Tom Davies <[email protected]>: >> >> > Cley seems to have created something like an Extension or maybe >> > independent program to automatically re-scale the byte-size of all >> images >> > in a document and i'd forgotten all about it. >> >> >> It was (is? I probably left it online) a separate tool. You could feed it >> an ODT, and produce a (hopefully) smaller ODT where all pictures are >> scaled >> to a given dpi. >> It was only a proof of concept: I didn't read the whole ODT spec or >> something. It works by looking in the XML for pictures links, and retrieve >> their "printing" size (in centimeters). It then scale down all linked >> images in the ODT archive, so that their size in pixels exactly meet their >> printing size for the specified DPI. >> >> For example, if you have a document with a picture set to 10x10cm, and the >> picture source is 4700x4700 pixels, the image is roughly at 1200dpi. When >> modified for printing at 150dpi, the picture would be scaled back to >> 590x590 pixels, drastically reducing the file size while keeping the >> expected output quality. >> >> (this also depend on scaling methods and other things, but it was the >> general idea). >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] >> Problems? >> http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >> Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >> List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >> All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be >> deleted >> > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
