Hi all,

using drawings into BB odc text documents is still a problem.

Of course there are a lot of ways to do that:

The 1st method is to insert graphic from another windows application

        e.g. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, …

The 2nd method is to insert graphic from another BB subsystem

        e.g. Alacarte, Basic, Escher, Free, Kurzweil, Lib, Mk, Ogl, Plot, Shapes, Water, Xy, …

The 3rd method is to insert line drawing elements from another BB subsystem

        e.g. Ctls, Html, …

What is the problem with the 1st method?

Text inside odc document stored very efficient compared to Word, but not drawings.

                                needs in    

      Storage of             BB odc   Word doc

      3 pages text            14 kB      18 kB

      1 drawing              424 kB      28 kB

An odc document with 34 drawings needs 7.7 MB. The same document in Word about 0.5 MByte 

What is the problem with the 2nd method?

You create a nice odc document with drawings and send via e-mail to a friend. 

But she/he see an alien view instead of the picture, 

because she/he has not installed the subsystem which you used to produced the picture.

What is the problem with the 3rd method?

Ctls and Html have the same line drawing element. The Ctls one is better than the Html one.

There is no way to find an html drawing and replace it with the Ctls drawing or vice versa. 

I’m still searching for an efficient way to insert drawings into BB documents.

Have you a solution?

Thanks to everybody who replied.

- Helmut Zinn

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