I run a mail print shop using Abiword files and mail merge fields as
templates. We put graphics in these files.
Since they are magazine prints, sometimes, they do in fact need to be in
ungodly resolutions. And weird color modes. And this is okay.
On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 00:48 +0100, Alan Horkan wrote:
>
> On Mon, 7 May 2007, Hubert Figuiere wrote:
>
> > > Would it make sense to be able to store jpgs as jpgs ? Sure, it would
> > > make lot of sense. Would I welcome this in AbiWord ? Yes, I certainly
> > > would. Is it a really serious problem not being able to do so ? I do not
> > > believe it is, as I think inserting hi-resolution photographs into a
> > > word-processing document is rarely necessary
> >
> > You haven't met users then. Your mom never sent you pictures of vacation
> > in a word document? [1] Believe me, this is a more common use case than
> > one might
>
> Or worse a word document containing nothing but three videos of
> chimpanzees. I'd blame corporate mail filtering rules for that one to be
> honest.
>
> > [1] the other case is in a PowerPoint file.
>
> Plent of powerpoint videos too.
>
> --
> Alan
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