Issue 106167 - shouldn't use bmp bitmap files
Summary: shouldn't use bmp bitmap files
Status: CONFIRMED
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Product: Installation
Classification: Application
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: OOO310m19
Hardware: All All
: P3 Trivial with 1 vote (vote)
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Reported: 2009-10-22 02:37 UTC by sophia
Modified: 2017-05-20 11:33 UTC (History)
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Description sophia 2009-10-22 02:37:49 UTC 
I saw that the below directories have bitmap files in bmp format.
/usr/lib/openoffice/basis3.1/share/template/fr/wizard/bitmap
/usr/lib/openoffice/basis3.1/share/template/en-US/wizard/bitmap

I noticed that there are also gif files in the same directories.

The gif file provides a better compression ratio.

I think that converting bmp files in gif will save space.
Comment 1 sophia 2009-10-22 02:40:12 UTC 
This bug is tracked in the Ubuntu distribution:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/456434
Comment 2 eric.bachard 2009-10-22 06:46:08 UTC 
@sophia

What is the exact request ? stop using .bmp in the whole Office, or just in a part, here the Wizards ?

Bitmap is heavily used in OpenOffice.org, because the engine is old and never rewritten. But I 
completely agree with you :)

Another file format who could be used (and already implemented in OOo) is .png.

Off topic:  if you are interested, I wrote a png loader for OOo4Kids splashscreen (see 
http://wiki.ooo4Kids.org ).
Comment 3 sophia 2009-10-22 13:33:47 UTC 
The below directories could use a more efficient format than bmp.

For the openoffice.org-common Debian package:
/usr/lib/openoffice/basis3.1/share/template/en-US/wizard/bitmap/

For all the openoffice.org-l10n-[LOCALIZATION] Debian packages:
/usr/lib/openoffice/basis3.1/share/template/[LOCALIZATION]/wizard/bitmap/
Comment 4 sophia 2009-10-22 13:43:05 UTC 
I assume the bmp files of the /usr/lib/openoffice/basis3.1/share/template/
directory can be converted without changing the code.
Comment 5 ooo 2009-10-22 14:09:00 UTC 
Not a locale data issue.
@ka: please take over / reassign.
Comment 6 ooo 2009-10-22 14:09:36 UTC 
@ka: please take over / reassign.
Comment 7 ooo 2009-10-23 13:08:48 UTC 
started
Comment 8 ooo 2010-01-21 10:50:59 UTC 
ka=>ih,va: could you take a look at this issue, please, and consider to use at
least PNG or JPG instead of BMP files, where appropriate?
Comment 9 sophia 2010-01-21 11:04:04 UTC 
Maybe PNG is more open than JPEG.
Comment 10 ace_dent 2010-02-26 11:15:58 UTC 
I'm happy to provide optimized PNG files as I have done elsewhere.

Regards
Andrew
Comment 11 nospam 2010-02-26 11:20:45 UTC 
@ace_dent: that's nice, thank you

but we also need to find someone who is able to change the according java code in the wizards to accept 
the .png files

@sba, bc: do you know who is responsible for java wizards now?
Comment 12 sophia 2010-05-16 13:25:20 UTC 
Still occurs with 3.2 version.
Comment 13 nospam 2010-05-17 15:29:05 UTC 
@sophia: We need to find someone who rewrites the wizard code - otherwise it won't work (see my other 
comment)
Comment 14 Marcus 2017-05-20 11:33:39 UTC 
Reset assigne to the default "issues@openoffice.apache.org".