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[Dave Warnock <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just wanted to add my support to what Jonathon suggests.

On 22 July 2013 10:18, Jonathan Corwin <j@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> (Note comment only, I've not looked at the code)
>
> I too think it is nice to keep it in the Presentation plugin. The user is
> dealing with a PDF file as far as they are concerned and transporting the
> PDF in the service file rather than lots of images is in my view the
> correct way of doing this. Importing a PDF in Presentations and having to
> look for it in the image plugin would confuse many. Also by moving the PDF
> around it protects us from adding it on one computer with a 640x480
> resolution moving to a 1900x1080 system and ending up having to deal with
> images in an resolution that don't scale nicely.
>
> In the future some other app (e.g. Impress) might support the opening of
> PDF files and in this case the user would then be able to choose between
> mupdf or something else. If we're only storing the images then that
> wouldn't be so easy.
>
> Yes it would be nice if we could just hook into the already existing image
> handling functionality of OpenLP for the display, but I wouldn't want us to
> tear the code base to pieces to get this to work. (I don't know the
> difficulties of this). I don't see any harm in making it a two phase task
> anyway and to do this later if we find a nice way to do it.
>
> Finally an idea has just come to mind that in the future we could also
> support an "Export to Images" function on the presentation whereby we could
> copy the thumbnail images (created at output resolution) to the an Image
> Plugin group, to at least cater for those situations where the user knows
> the presentation application isn't installed at the destination system.
> However this would be outside the scope of this particular branch and would
> be a whole new feature.
> --
> https://code.launchpad.net/~tomasgroth/openlp/mupdf/+merge/174849
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