Re: Abiword and Images

Alan Horkan wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Sep 2006, Giancarlo wrote:
>
>
>> Ryan, Alan, Hubert,
>> thanks for your response.
>>
>> Thanks for the suggestions: this is what I undestood:
>> - abiword is not the program I need when I have to mix text and images
>> (500k image can't generate 5M document!)
>>
>
> I looked but strangely couldn't find a bug report about native JPEG
> support and I would have sworn there was an ancient bug report about the
> issue. (Does that mean it has been fixed or I just cannot find it?)
>
Just to add to that - I am not sure that OOo would be any better in this
regard. I'd recommend trying saving as .zabw (zipped) to reduce the
filesize (AbiWord does it transparently, just like it were any old file
format) before installing OOo on an old machine, to avoid frustration.

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