[Libreoffice] Incompatible changes for B-spline smoothing in ODF1.2

Michael Meeks michael.meeks at novell.com
Fri May 6 04:29:56 PDT 2011


Hi Regina,

On Mon, 2011-04-25 at 18:30 +0200, Regina Henschel wrote:
> Currently smoothing with B-Splines uses the inner data points as control 
> points. Therefore the smoothed line does not go through the data points 
> and it is no interpolation.

	Right - shame.

> In ODF 1.2 the definition of smoothing with B-Splines does it in a way, 
> that you get a real interpolation, that means, the smoothed line goes 
> through all data points.

	Nicer of course.

> The current behavior is so inscrutable, that I endorse the definition in 
> ODF1.2.

	:-) So - lets drop the old version, and upgrade everyone to your nice
new code. Can we include your patch in:

	http://openoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=117986

	Into LibreOffice under the MPL/LGPLv3+ dual license ? [ and I assume
that Kohei / Bubli et. al. can cope with that ;-].

	Thanks,

		Michael.

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