Subject: Re: XP design for image support
From: Sam TH (sam@uchicago.edu)
Date: Fri Apr 20 2001 - 12:56:37 CDT
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 10:42:18AM -0700, WJCarpenter wrote:
> sam> Wow, those are big space savings - but that's an image that
> sam> people aren't going to want to embed in AbiWord. It's just too
> sam> big. It won't fit nicely one paper, and it just won't look good
> sam> enough printed.
>
> Well, this is a false assumption in my experience. In business life,
> I've often received 2 MB MSWord documents that reduced to 20-30k once
> I deleted a thumbnail-sized graphic that had been shrunk from some
> high quality image somewhere. Just for example, look at the AT&T
> corporate logo. Pretty simple stuff, all one color, etc. One popular
> way to get that into documents was to use a high-quality EPS image
> (good enough to make a smooth image a full page size) and use MSWord's
> re-scaling stuff to shink it to a piece of the letterhead.
>
> Just yesterday, a business colleague sent me a 4 MB RTF file that
> contained only a screen shot of a dialog box. I guess they did it
> that way because that was the shape of nail their hammer fit.
>
> The moral is that users don't always do smart stuff. Anybody who
> communicates regularly with MSOffice users probably knows this in
> spades.
Ok, ok, I give. Users do really dumb stuff. We do need to worry
about that case. Is jpeg the best decision for that case?
Convince me.
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