Subject: Re: images import
From: Dom Lachowicz (dominicl@seas.upenn.edu)
Date: Sun Jul 29 2001 - 21:34:20 CDT
Quoting Jens Ansorg <liste@ja-web.de>:
> another question re. images in AbiWord:
>
> is it possible to save just the location (path) of an image and not the
> whole image binary data in an AbiWord document?
>
>
> The most important feature of AbiWord (for me at the moment) is it's
> ability to save it's documents as plain xml files.
> I'm thinking about using (misusing?) AbiWord as XML editor for web
> pages. Would be so easy: just edit the xml-file in AbiWord and then
> apply an appropriate XSL-Stylesheet and get nice HTML out of this.
>
> Everybody out there knows MS Word and therefore can use AbiWord too and
> edit content for the web page!!
>
> Only showstopper is the image handling. I'd need JPG support and an
> option to save only the image path but not the whole data.
>
>
> any ideas about this imae stuff?
Hey Jens,
Well, JPG support is fairly high on our TODO list. One guy has a patch to make
this work, but I don't want to apply it right now for various technical
reasons. However, this'll get done soon.
Saving image paths inside of abiword, however, won't make it into any official
release builds. The images are necessarily embedded content that need to be
associated with the document (and contained within the doucment streams). If
you want to make a patch for an unofficial Abi build to do this, that'd be ok
with me.
However, AbiWord 0.9.0 has great HTML support, complete with stylesheet and
your "image path" request of sorts - if you edit an ABW document and save as
XHTML, you get *really* pretty HTML which is about 99.9999% true to your
original formatting/layout onscreen. Also, any embedded images get saved to
disk and look like any other HTML image:
<img src="/path/to/foo.png" alt="Foo.png" />
Hope this helps some,
Dom
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