Re: Openoffice & external links to graphics.
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 10:35:54AM +0000, James Cummings wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 23:05:51 +0000, Chris Halls <halls@debian.org> wrote:
> > On Monday 21 Feb 2005 14:45, Clive Menzies wrote:
> > > On (21/02/05 14:19), James Cummings wrote:
> > > > Openoffice saves it as Foo.rtf and Foo.png with a file:// link in it
> > > > that specifies my home directory, etc.
> > > >
> > > > Is there a way to make Openoffice embed the graphics in the file (i.e.
> > > > keep it as it *was*) rather than split them up into multiple files.
> > > >
> > > > This is *extremely* inconvenient since colleagues are all using Word
> > > > and whatnot.
> > >
> > > I share word docs with MS users without a problem but have set
> > > MSWord 97/2000/XP as default in Options> Load/Save/General. I suspect
> > > it is the use of rtf which is causing the problem (Rich Text Format -
> > > not graphics, /<he said in ignorance>).
> >
> > Yup, agreed. The OOo developers would tell you to use .doc format instead
> > of .rtf as you will get much better compatibility between OOo and Word for
> > two reasons. First, the .rtf spec isn't as open or well defined as rumour
> > has it, and second, because OOo has had much more development effort put
> > into .doc compatibility than the .rtf support.
>
> My problem was that the files were already in RTF format. So even
> when I loaded them up, then saved them as DOC, it would save the
> graphic externally.
Try this: (I'm guessing the menu items because I use the German version)
Edit -> Links...
opens a dialogue window with the names of the graphics files. Mark them and
click 'solve' (? - the button at the bottom right).
Then the graphics become part of the document and will be saved in it.
>
> My lamentable solution was to run MSWord in winxp inside VMWare
> temporarily, but that is something I'd prefer to avoid doing.
>
> You are right that it isn't something I've experienced with DOC files.
>
> It is also something I didn't experience with RTF files in 1.1.2, but
> now do in 1.1.3.
> The *worst* bit about it is the link to the file was saved as:
> file:///home/jamesc/mnt/remotemachine/sharedfilespace/blah/blort/foo.png
> So would work fine on my machine, but of course not for everyone else.
> The affect was that if I loaded an RTF file, the graphics disappeared
> for anyone else who loaded it after me.
> Ok, RTF might not be the best supported format, but that strikes me as
> a real problem.
>
> In any case, my problem is (for now) solved, ;-)
> -James
>
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