> "yeah, but there is this huge bug that Abiword does not really support
> jpg, so you're actually seeing a jpg converted to png, and you will end
> up with a document weighting 100MB"*
Seriously, this is not a bug but a design decision.
> This _needs_ to be fixed.
I agree.
Marc
> I am dead serious. What will happen when you
> have kids with laptops that completely die down when trying to open a
> document they made because it now weights several dozens megabytes and
> they are not even aware of it? The 100$ laptop will never have the horse
> power to correct this problem*, and transferring it "outside" the laptop
> with WiFi might be cumbersome and downright impossible with
> non-broadband connections.
>
> Won't somebody please think of the children? ;-)
> Nekohayo
>
> =-=-=-=-=-=-
> *: now is my past experience. I got a call from my aunt a few months
> ago, she was panicked and had "completely killed the computer". I
> arrived and found abiword frozen to death. This was on a 2 gHz machine
> with 256 Mib of RAM. I killed abiword and tried opening the document, no
> joy. Then I looked at the file properties and it weighted about 110 MiB.
>
> Only OpenOffice was able to open that file (it took a very long time).
> Then I realized that all the pictures that were originally JPEGs had
> been converted to full resolution PNGs. Because of that, I had to make
> her use Writer instead until this bug can be dealt with.
>
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