Hi, LT-P wrote: > Le lundi 19 novembre 2007 à 12:26 +0100, Rene Engelhard a écrit : > > > LT-P wrote: > > > It would be nice to have OOo being able to open a document contained > > > into a ZIP archive, like can do xpdf or less. > > > > And why is that needed? (Especially since OOos files are zip-files > > anyway)? > A lot of people send by email single Word document into a zip file, for
Then educate them? > sharing during redaction. The compression allows the size to stay > acceptable for the mail servers, but at the same time if add complexity > by forcing users to zip/unzip documents. If they use stuff like Word (and if you accept them) you have lost anyway. You just should tell them a) not to send word documents b) if they do, not zipped. Id b) is not possible because the files are too big they should use something sane which doesn't keep years of history in the file. > If OOo was able to open directly documents into a zip archive, it would > save time and lower the complexity for the end user (no more « how do > you open the document ? »). Again, this is a matter of education. People who see zips should know that they need to extract them. > This could be done by using already existing zip tools on the computer > (at least for UNIX-like systems) and by adding a filter. I don't believe that makes sense (and I do believe OOo upstream - which would need to implement this - believe the same. Grüße/Regards, René -- .''`. René Engelhard -- Debian GNU/Linux Developer : :' : http://www.debian.org | http://people.debian.org/~rene/ `. `' [EMAIL PROTECTED] | GnuPG-Key ID: 248AEB73 `- Fingerprint: 41FA F208 28D4 7CA5 19BB 7AD9 F859 90B0 248A EB73
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