Re: [libreoffice-users] replacing only text portions

On 09/22/2013 12:21 PM, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote:
> Good evening
> I am writing a book with Writer (3.6.6.2 / Windows). In connection with
> this endeavor I already asked a few questions and there are more to come ...
>
> Well, the original is written in Japanese, about 200 pages A5 size with
> 60 something pictures.
> Of this I have a "normal" Writer file with the pictures in color (ca. 45
> MB).
> To make a "Kindle-friendly" version (following Amazon instructions), I
> made another file, in which I replace the color pictures by gray-scale
> pictures (ca. 14 MB).
>
>
> Now I have rewritten (not translated) the whole thing in German and are
> in the process of editing that material.
> To edit (apply corrections / changes) I use the Writer file with the
> gray-scale pictures.
> After I finish, I would like to COPY the entire text, including styles
> and formatting, and replace the text ONLY in the old Writer file with
> the Japanese text (all the formatting is kept) and the color pictures.
>
> I tried to "select all" and then copy, but that also replaces the color
> pictures with the gray-scale pictures. If I select the "text only"
> option, all formatting and the pictures are lost.
>
>
>
> Is there a trick to achieve this feat? Or do I have to copy 200 pages
> worth of text piece by piece? Or, alternatively, replace 60+ pictures
> one by one including all the settings that go with it?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Thomas
When you perform a text only paste, you say "paste only the text but
ignore any images that are in the clipboard". This does not mean "only
over-write the text and leave existing graphics"

I cannot think of a good / easy way to do this. If I had to solve this
problem, I would probably use a macro to copy the color images into the
document containing the gray-scale images. This assumes that there is
some "easy" way for a macro to understand how to associate a specific
color image to a specific gray-scale image so that it can be replaced.

I am sorry that it is not much of an answer, but the specifics to solve
the issue using a macro are highly dependent on how the match could be
made between documents.

-- 
Andrew Pitonyak
My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt
Info:  http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php


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