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
>> 
>> 

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