On 06/12/2010 12:38 PM, openoffice.mbou...@spamgourmet.com wrote:
Tom Bell - cbel...@cfl.rr.com wrote:
On 06/12/2010 07:53 AM, openoffice.mbou...@spamgourmet.com wrote:
I don't see any technical reason that several ODF documents couldn't
be stored within a single file. It could perhaps be as simple as a new
document type which is a zip file (as other ODF files are) within
which is a directory for each document with the current structure of
that document type. Such a file type would presumably have to go
through the standardisation process.
If several .ODF documents are added to a single archive file (e.g.,
.ZIP) then the
unarchiver program can open the archive and display the contents.
You have only to click on the file you wish to open in OOo and
it opens without having to save to disk.
This is the case in both Windows and Linux today, so why
would it be included into another standard?
This is true regardless of document type.
Thank you!
Tom
For what it's worth, I agree, and made a similar suggestion yesterday in
a previous post to this thread. Personally I just put related files in
folders and don't even bother zipping them, unless sending them to
someone else or making them available for download.
This is the way I do things too.
However, the suggestion being discussed is to have OpenOffice (and
potentially other ODF software) treat the documents as a single file
when opening, saving etc. So all the related documents would be opened
together in a single OOo window, with a tab for each, and all would be
closed together. I don't see much practical use for that myself, but
others seem to be more convinced.
I don't see a practical use for it either.
I'd certainly draw the line at including any more than ODF documents in
such a file. Storing any arbitrary types of document within a single
file is most definitely what zip, tar, etc. are for, and OOo couldn't be
expected to do anything sensible with document types it doesn't support
(nor could any other software).
Mark.
I totally agree.
I think the suggestion would have limited support and usefulness, and
should not be part of the baseline OOo build.. If enough people really
need this feature, they should find a custom programmer to write an
extension.
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