On May 8, 2012, at 4:12 AM, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote: > Hi, > > On 07.05.2012 18:20, eric b wrote: >> >> Le 7 mai 12 à 18:01, Regina Henschel a écrit : >> >>> Hi all, >>> >> >> Hi Regina, >> >> >>> user often ask why they cannot rotate pictures in Writer, e.g issue 3545. >>> There exists a tip to copy a picture from Draw to Writer, then it can be >>> rotated. But that Draw-picture is different from a Writer- picture. >>> >>> I have made a table to collect the differences between Writer-pictures and >>> Draw-pictures. >> >> >> Thanks a lot ! >> >> FYI, there was a little mismatch with the issue number, and I fixed it on >> the wiki >> >> >>> It is currently in my personal area on the Media-wiki. If you find it useful >>> and you know a suitable place, please tell me where to put it. >> >> >> I think it it the right location. Let's wait for other opinions though ... >> >> >>> >>> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/User:Regina/ComparisonWriterDrawPicture >> >> >> >> That's a very good idea. As you probably read in the issue, I took over the >> task, and I'll use this wiki page to report any progress and step done. >> >> The idea is, as discussed with Oliver and Armin, to reuse some Draw features >> in >> Writer, like (image rotation). There is a lot to do and any help is welcome. >> > > Armin's and my idea is mainly removing the Writer implementation for > images/pictures, introduce all its features missing in the Drawing Layer > implementation for images/pictures and use the Drawing Layer implementation > for images/pictures in Writer. > Our idea is quite old, but we never got the resources to work on it. > Unfortunately, all the work we had done in preparation is lost. This lost > work mainly covers something like you Regina had done. It summarized all the > features of the Writer implementation which are currently not available in > the Drawing Layer implementation. It also contained some planning of the > corresponding implementation. But, it is lost and needs to be done again.
Is it a CWS? If so, it might not really be lost. You will have to ask about the specific CWS, you may be surprised. Regards, Dave > > Best regards, Oliver. > >> >> Current work in progress : >> >> - I expermiented some hack (adding image Rotation), but something is missing >> >> - reading most of the Draw code. >> - comparing Writer and Draw shells. >> >> Long term plan : >> Make it work. >> >> Are you interested to share / contribute to the task with me ? >> >> >> Regards, >> Erid >> >>
