Re: OLPC and non-PNG image support

On Mon, 7 May 2007, Hubert Figuiere wrote:

> > Would it make sense to be able to store jpgs as jpgs ? Sure, it would
> > make lot of sense. Would I welcome this in AbiWord ? Yes, I certainly
> > would. Is it a really serious problem not being able to do so ? I do not
> > believe it is, as I think inserting hi-resolution photographs into a
> > word-processing document is rarely necessary
>
> You haven't met users then. Your mom never sent you pictures of vacation
> in a word document? [1] Believe me, this is a more common use case than
> one might

Or worse a word document containing nothing but three videos of
chimpanzees. I'd blame corporate mail filtering rules for that one to be
honest.

> [1] the other case is in a PowerPoint file.

Plent of powerpoint videos too.

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Alan