Linking to embedded images.

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#1

Hi.
I need to create a document with small images repeated hundreds of times. I would like to use the one image, inserted once and then linked to that same image so the document doesn't bloat excessively (the images need to be contained in the document as I email it and share it with others on OSX, Windows and Linux.).
Can I do this in Libre Office. Are images from the gallery treated differently, i.e. if I add my small images to the gallery.
Thanks, Steve

#2

Hi :slight_smile:
If you insert the image one time and then copy&paste from that inserted
image doesn't that make each copy just reference the 1st one rather than
create duplicates?

I am not sure what happens if documents are then viewed in programs other
than OpenOffice/LibreOffice.
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#3

Thanks Tom.
This LO is pretty smart, looking in the .odt file it must save images with a name that is generated from a fingerprint, like an MD5 sum.
If I insert an image into a new file, from the file system or the clip board (copy/paste from another application or document) the same image ends up with the same file name within LO.
Multiple instances of the image within the LO document don't drastically increase the file size (it does increase because thumbnails.png within increases but the original image is only stored once).
I am resetting a 142MB 148 page document that should be 1/20th that size with what I have found.
I just need to check AOO now to see if the documents are editable in either because I need to print from AOO due to a regression in LO.

Thanks again Tom for stirring the grey matter. Steve

#4

Hi :slight_smile:
Thanks :slight_smile: I have a feeling that if you save in non-ODF formats then the
file-size might increase dramatically as the images might become
duplicated. It is good to hear that ODF does behave itself wrt this :))
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile: