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

Hi :)
+1
You do get a little more used to it but it's still a pita
Regards from
Tom :)  





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> From: Bjørn K Nilssen <bk@bknilssen.no>
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org 
> Sent: Wednesday, 7 November 2012, 20:39
> Subject: 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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