Re: Inlined image format
Fisher Mark <uunet!tcemail!is3.indy.tce.com!FisherM@dxmint.cern.ch>
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Date: Wed, 26 Jan 94 12:33:00 PST
From: Fisher Mark <uunet!tcemail!is3.indy.tce.com!FisherM@dxmint.cern.ch>
Subject: Re: Inlined image format
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I hate to be MS Windows-centric (although OLE 2.0 is going to be on NT & the
Mac), but it looks to me like the OLE 2.0 inlined image capability would
certainly help with this. As far as I understand it (which may not be far
enough :( ), under OLE 2.0 a browser that did not know how to process an
image format could essentially "loan" a child window to an external viewer
for display of the image, thus producing what looks to the user like the
current inlined image display but is actually an image displayed by an
external viewer. Does anyone know if the OpenDoc specification allows for
this?
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