Hi Adam, On Sun, Sep 01, 2013 at 05:35:12PM +0300, Adam Fyne <adam.f...@cloudon.com> wrote: > We are doing some work on implementing 'Smart-Art *Preservation*' in Writer. > > Meaning – if the user does WordèLOèWord round-trip we plan that they > won't lose their Smart-Art object. > > Currently Smart-Art is being imported into *simple shapes* in Writer (which > don't exactly look the same), and most of the actual data and binding > between shapes is lost (not to mention it doesn't look the same). > > In order to preserve the original Smart-Art object – we would plan on > loading the entire XML nodes and attributes of Smart-Art to property maps > (e.g. Miklos's great 'InteropGrabBag').
This makes sense, yes. > In addition, instead of showing to the user simple shapes (that he can > currently edit and move around) – > > we would like to change this and show the user a *locked* bitmap of the > smart-art, that the user cannot manipulate (so that he can at least > preserve the original Smart-Art). What is the benefit of this, from a user's point of view? > Should we take a different approach that maybe pops a message when loading > a DOCX with Smart-Art asking the user: > > *"We noticed you are importing a DOCX with Smart-Art. Would you like to > preserve it and keep it un-editable or convert it to simple shapes ?"* > > And then act according to the user's choice? (choosing simple shapes will > lose the 'Smart-Art' functionality, while choosing 'preserve' will not let > the user edit the smart-art, only see it). This is certainly possible, e.g. the ASCII filter asks for encoding IIRC, the CSV import filter is also interactive, but one popup for every smartart is probably a bit too much, imagine a presentation containing 100 smartart shapes. :) Miklos
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