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Hi Hub,
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
This was exactly my point -- you clearly feel strongly that it should be
fixed, then just go and fix it.
>> (BTW, normal embedded systems use a compressed file system on the flash,
>> so there is no advantage of insisting on using gzipped file format; to
>> the contrary, you end up doing a nearly useless round of
>> compression-decompression).
>
> Information theory 101.
>
> For information
>
> The PNG
> -rw-r--r-- 1 hub hub 251473 2005-08-29 18:02 troll.png
> -rw-r--r-- 1 hub hub 251495 2007-05-07 19:22 troll.png.gz
^^^^^^
My point precisely. On a jffs file system this would pretty much be true
of the whole document.
> Shall I say more about compressing PNG or JPEG ?
Nobody disputes the size difference, just nobody (including yourself)
has yet felt strongly enough about that to do something about it.
Tomas
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