Bug#181764: openoffice.org: Not a wishlist bug, and wontfix shows ignorance.
Package: openoffice.org
Version: 1.0.3-2
Followup-For: Bug #181764
I'm sorry if I sounded rude, but I want to start a discussion about this.
GIF export is a very important feature, as long as OOO can only export HTML
with GIF graphics. For example, it is impossible with the Debian version
to export Impress presentations as HTML, which is a quite commonly used feature.
Moreover, technically inexperienced people don't know
that this is specifically a Debian problem, because the exporting works with
other OpenOffice.org versions.
It would be interesting how the other distributions handle this problem.
Also, if the LZW functionality is centrally provided in some library,
maybe it would be possible to also ship a non-free version with a LZW
compression enabled, as is done with e.g. the GIMP. Also, if Debian
developers choose to dig into the code and remove the GIF support,
they could also dig only a bit further and change it around to exporting PNGs.
I don't think that it's an option to wait until the LZW patent has
expired somewhen. People need solutions right now, and I, for example,
won't use the Debian packages until this is fixed. It's also not an option
in my opinion to let the users compile their own packages; this would mean
downloading the huge source code of the package, and mastering the
compile process.
thanks & greetings August Mayer
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux fooker 2.4.20-p4 #2 Wed May 14 15:44:05 CEST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=de_AT@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_AT@euro
Versions of packages openoffice.org depends on:
ii openoffice.org-bin 1.0.3-2 OpenOffice.org office suite binary
ii openoffice.org-debian-files 1.0.3-2+1 Debian specific parts of OpenOffic
ii openoffice.org-l10n-de 1.0.3-2 German language package for openof
ii openoffice.org-l10n-en 1.0.3-2 English (US) language package for
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