Re: [libreoffice-users] LO to .doc with background image?

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From: "Bjørn K Nilssen" <bk@bknilssen.no>
To: "Brian Barker" <b.m.barker@btinternet.com>
Cc:
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] LO to .doc with background image?
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2012 21:28:00 +0100

On Wed, 07 Nov 2012 20:02:19 +0100, Brian Barker
<b.m.barker@btinternet.com> wrote:

> At 16:00 07/11/2012 +0100, Bjørn K Nilssen wrote:
> > I made a 'template' in LO for an A3 leaflet with a background image  
> > (page style) on the first page. No margins, but with boxes with text,  
> > table and images on top of it.  Everything works fine in LO, and also  
> > if exported as PDF.  But when saved as .doc the entire background image  
> > is gone.
> >
> > Any ideas about what happens?  Can't you use background images in  
> > Word?  So far the client has to use the pdf ...
>
> How have you determined that the background image has disappeared?  Have  
> you (or has your client) opened the .doc file in genuine Microsoft Word  
> or in the freeware (Windows only) Word viewer?  Or have you just  
> reopened the .doc file in LibreOffice and found the background absent  
> there?  I think there may be circumstances where the .doc file does  
> retain the background but this is not converted correctly when reopened  
> in LibreOffice.

The background is gone both when I open the .doc file in LO and when he
opens it in Word.
Which may indicate that it is a problem with the export?
It is not a linked file.
And all the other images export/import just fine from the .doc file. It is
just the full-page-no-margins background image that disappears.
I'll probably be writing on a machine with genuine Word next week, and
then I could do some tests on a USB-stick to see if a background image
added inside Word will import into LO.

> Note also that the Background tab of the Page Style dialogue (where you  
> selected the background graphic) has a "Link" box.  If you tick this,  
> the graphic is linked and not embedded, and there may be problems when  
> you transfer the file to another file system - e.g. your client's -  
> where the original image file does not exist separately at the same  
> absolute file path.  Try unticking that box.  (But I'm not sure that  
> will make any difference.)
>
> I trust this helps.
>
> Brian Barker


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