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: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 -- no debconf information
