Re: [office-comment] embedding images in ODF

[Ming Fei Jia <jiamingf@cn.ibm.com>]

Wouter,

Seems the question you asked are implementation specific. For Symphony, you had better raise you issue in Symphony support forum. For OpenOffice, you had better raise you issue in OpenOffice issuezilla.

I tried for both Symphony 1.3 and OpenOffice3.1. They have the same result like you said for the 2 items. So these depend on OpenOffice code base implementation. For the first, the file name is GUID like structure, that may be a problem for someone, but may be not a problem for someone else. Also, ODF spec does not define how the picture file name should be like. For the second, does not specify the media type for wmf file, this also an implementation specific issue. In the wikimedia(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_media_type), does not list wmf as common media type. If we think wmf is a common use media type, that needs implementation improvement, not the standard issue. Anyway, thanks report the issues.

"Wouter van Vugt" <wouter@code-counsel.net> wrote on 06/19/2009 02:52:53 PM:
> 06/19/2009 02:53 PM
>
> Subject:
>
> [office-comment] embedding images in ODF
>
> When adding an image into an ODF document using Lotus Symphony I
> noticed that the manifest contains the following information:
>  
> <manifest:file-entry manifest:media-type="" manifest:full-
> path="Pictures/2000006A00000E3F0000107325797BF2.wmf"/>
>  <manifest:file-entry manifest:media-type="" manifest:full-
> path="Pictures/2000067F0000136800001363D5B042F0.wmf"/>
>  
> Two things can be noticed here. First the file name was mangled into
> a GUID like structure, while that is technically unnecessary. Next,
> and even more amazing, is that the media-type is left unspecified.
> The only way I can now recognize this image as a WMF, is to use the
> file extension. This poses unnecessary difficulties for processing
> applications. Given my guess that Symphony generates conformant ODF,
> the spec should be adapter to require the media-type attribute when
> a decent value can be chosen.
>  
> Proposed changes:
> -          Demand that file names are not mangled when embedding
> into a package.
> -          Demand that media-types be specified whenever possible
> (WMF is surely possible)