Re: [libreoffice-users] cropped images in docx file not formatted correctly

Hi :)
Standard tactics are 
*  Ask people to send you documents in the older format "because not everyone has the time and 
money to upgrade their MS Office every couple of years"
*  Give people the link to the download site for LibreOffice as part of your signature
*  Ask people to also send a Pdf because word-processing formats always look different on any other 
machine depending on random variable such as which printer-driver is the default on that machine 
and which OS it's running.  

Don't make apology for it.  Just tell them to do it.  You are not the only person that is likely to 
have trouble with their documents.  
Regards from
Tom :)  
  





> ________________________________
> From: John King <johnmking_uk@yahoo.co.uk>
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org 
> Sent: Tuesday, 27 November 2012, 17:17
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] cropped images in docx file not formatted correctly
>
> On 26/11/12 18:28, Dan Lewis wrote:
> > This is not necessarily a problem with .docx files. What John mentioned is how "cropped" images 
> > have been handled going back prior to when OOo was donated to Apache. Neither AOO nor LO truly 
> > crop images. They only limit what is seen to the "cropped" area.
> >       To crop a picture, I have to use another program, mostly gimp.
> >
> > --Dan
>
> I think it is a problem with docx files.  If the sample file I have put in the bug report is saved 
> in Word97-2003 .doc format, LO imports it correctly, with the same cropping as in the original 
> Word2007 document.
>
> It's only when LO tries to import the docx version that the 'squashed' image effect occurrs.
>
> John
>
>
> > On 11/26/2012 12:14 PM, Joel Madero wrote:
> > > I'd suggest looking at bugs.freedesktop.org and search for similar
> > > problems. I know that image placement has been reported before and .docx is
> > > a nightmare to work with (Microsoft isn't very open about sharing their
> > > standards.....if you didn't know that :) ).
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Joel
> > >
> > > P.S. If you don't see similar bug reports I suggest you report the bug and
> > > attach a test document so that we can look into it
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 9:11 AM, John King <johnmking_uk@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > >
> > > > LO 3.5.4 on opensuse 12.2
> > > > LO 3.6.3 on Windows XP
> > > >
> > > > Most of my colleagues are now using recent versions of Word, where docx is
> > > > the default format. Exchanging pure text documents is not a huge problem,
> > > > but I've run into difficulties with docx files containing cropped images,
> > > > of which there are many.
> > > >
> > > > When read into LO, the cropped images are not formatted correctly. Instead
> > > > of being cropped, the image is 'squashed' to the dimensions of the cropped
> > > > image, but no cropping has taken place.
> > > >
> > > > I've submitted a bug report as:
> > > >
> > > > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/**show_bug.cgi?id=57378<https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57378>
> > > >
> > > > with sample files illustrating the problem.
> > > >
> > > > I can't find any setting in the LO options to overcome this, but I may be
> > > > missing something as I couldn't find any previous bug reports of this
> > > > phenomenon, so perhaps other people are not experiencing it. Can anyone
> > > > else confirm it happening?
> > > >
> > > > John King
> > > >
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