Writer images disappeared!

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#1

Hi everyone,

I have a Writer question. I am using 3.4.1 on Vista, and I successfully opened a docx file containing text and photos. I did some minor text editing, then saved the document with a new filename but still as a docx. When I opened that file, the images had disappeared!

Any ideas? It's not a disaster as I still have the original document, but I would like to be able to save images with docx!

Thanks,

Tony Royston.

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#2

Hi :slight_smile:
Can you try saving as Doc instead of DocX? The older format often produces much
better results.

Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#3

Hi again :slight_smile:
The 3.4.1 is development branch for early adopters it might be worth installing
the stable 3.3.3 alongside but it's not easy. This guide might help
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel

It might be a good idea to post a bug-report about it but there are probably
already quite a few. This guide might help
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport

If you right-click on one of the pictures you can change it's "anchor point" to
about 6 different types, such as "as character" or "to page". MS Office doesn't
have all those options. With some of the options you get a lot of flexibility
on placing the picture. More flexibility than you can get with Word. Also the
wrapping options seem to behave slightly differently. With DocX i've found the
pictures often get thrown off to one side and piled on top of each other so that
the ones underneath are not obvious. It's usually fine if there are only 1 or 2
pictures on a page but around 6 images seems to get troublesome. There doesn't
seem to be any trouble if i stick with Odt and not much problem with Doc either
but i am thinking about switching to using Draw rather than Word or Writer when
i need a lot of images on a single page again.

If you want other people to see the page exactly the way you want it to look
then it's best to export to Pdf but it's not much good if you want them to be
able to edit it. Often a good answer is to send a pdf version and an editable
format alongside so that people can see what you were aiming for. It might be
good to give them a link to download and install LibreOffice as people often do
with Adobe Acrobat when sharing Pdfs.

Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#4

Hi

  I suggest you to do this:

1) Save the original document (.docx) as .odt
2) Look if .odt document is correct
3) If it is correct save .odt document as .docx
4) Look if it is correct.

Regards,

Jorge Rodríguez

#5

Thank you Jorge, I will try that and report back my findings.

Tony.

#6

Tony

Just downloaded 3.4.2 from Filehippo, tested and at this moment cannot find any bug fixes from 3.4.1.

However, the disappearing pics still happens in this version for saving in .docx format

Now, I know some people are not keen on this work around, but if you paste your picture into a text box (Insert>frame), it works. You have to remove the box borders so that the text box does not show *and* they will stop the pictures moving around.

regards

John
XP sp3
LO 3.4.2 - OOO340m1 (Build:201)

#7

Interesting. Historically, I had to remove pictures from text frames before they would export (so I stopped placing images in text boxes if I had to later convert to an MSO file format).

John, I take your comment to say that this should work (image in a frame) if the text frame is not visible.

Tony,

are your images embedded in the document, or are they inserted as links?

How are the images anchored? I always anchor AS CHARACTER when I want to export to an MSO format

Are the images in a text frame? If yes, what happens if you have an image that is NOT in a text frame?

#8

Andrew

/#//John, I take your comment to say that this should work (image in a frame) if the text frame is not visible. //#/

It works either way, with or without borders, I mentioned having to remove boarders because they come as a default with the frame (annoying) - I would get rid of them!.

I use text boxes all the time.

regards

John B

#9

Hi :slight_smile:
I think the DocX format throws images around to some very strange places and
often stacked on top of each nearly off the page. I think the text frame blocks
them from moving far and could be left visible to provide a nice frame.

Personally i think sticking to Odt or Doc or even Pdf formats would be easier.
Pdf can't be edited by many people but does have the advantage of looking
exactly the same on every machine.

I think the problem is not so severe when there are only 1 or 2 pictures in the
entire document which suggests that using Draw might be better as it a much
larger number of embedded images more easily, but of course that might mean
using an Open Document Format or a picture format or Pdf rather than DocX.

Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#10

Andrew,

Thanks for your reply. The images are embedded and not in a frame. The anchoring used is whatever is default, I didn't select anything specific.

I shall try altering the anchoring, and using a frame, and see what happens.

Regards,

Tony.

#11

Thanks John, I will try that.

So, no real difference from 3.4.1 to 3.4.2 then? OK, so I wouldn't expect too many changes, but the odd bug fix would be nice!!

Tony.

#12

Tony

Some in-bedded pictures are more in-bedded than others, when this happens I blow the picture up as big as I can, then use "screen print", paste into my Picture editor (Paint Shop Pro), crop my desktop to just the picture and save as a .jpg or just copy & paste into the word text box - simples.

It may seem complex, but its very quick and of course it does help if you have 2 monitors.

regards

John

#13

Hey!

So the images disappeared from Writer.... So the Sound Files disappear from Impress..

Whats new? This is Lib-O.

Be nice if someone got to grips with these basics....

Regards

Un-Impressed

#14

Partially disappearing pics happens with the current version on OpenSuSE
11.4 saving in ODT. No docx or doc needed.

#15

Hi :slight_smile:
The 3.4.1 is development branch for 'early adopters' and has some advanced
features but also has oddities and maybe even regressions. It's a bit like
seeing a play or a movie on the opening night or in the first week. I suspect
that the 3.4.2 will be much the same. The 3.3.3 is the latest release of the
stable branch and supported for a year apparently although it's not clear
exactly what that means. A bit like watching a football match after everyone
has told you all about the highlights and who won. It lacks some of the newer
features but it's less quirky, less surprises. Anyone with the 3.4.1 is
probably well advised to install the 3.3.3 alongside for when they need
reliability but it's not easy so this guide should help with that.

http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile: