Hi Regina, copying Armin, who did quite a bit of work in that area - Regina Henschel wrote:
you are the contact person for tender proposal https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Budget2022#Unify_Writer_and_Draw_Images The topic of this tender proposal is not very clear to me. Writer-images and Draw-images have many differences. I have collected them in the document https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:Comparison_WriterDraw_image.odt
Thanks, that's an excellent overview, and should IMO be a part of the requirements for a potential tender.
When working on 'Unify' it is necessary to know the final goal. It could be A) Elimination of Writer-images. Writer uses only Draw-images same as all other modules.
Yes, that's the intended final goal.
I understand it so, that the item 'extract Writer border rendering & frame special code' would be a step for goal A, whereas items in regard to 'rotated images support' would be a step for goal B.
Don't quite understand the second part - since obviously draw images can be easily rotated? But indeed there's slightly more work needed besides just the border support (e.g. contour polygons and other smallish bits and pieces from your comparison doc), to make Draw images powerful enough to support all Writer features. HTH, -- Thorsten
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