Re: [libreoffice-users] Finding hidden Draw objects

Try this:

* Open Navigator (F5)
* This should show the Navigator, with a list of slides, but no objects
  in the slides (or at least, only named objects).
* Click on the far right tool button (with "Show Shapes" as the tooltip)
* This should open a drop down menu with the options "Named shapes" and
  "All shapes"
* Select "All shapes"
* Now the list of slides should have small plus signs next to them, and
  expanding them should show all drawing objects in the slide.
* I'll note that neither right-clicking nor double-clicking them
  actually does anything, but at least you can see that they are there.

This seems far easier, and is, I think, what you want to know. Although
if it doesn't show everything, Tom's way will be more complete.

If you find things you aren't sure about, you may have to make a copy
of the file, and go through the copy, deleting or naming everything,
until you find the offending item or items, but if you're first going
to all that trouble, Navigator isn't really necessary in the first
place, so I guess a feature request should be filed to give a
right-click menu to Navigator allowing at the very least a "bring to
front" option.


Paul




On Tue, 9 Sep 2014 19:56:14 +0100
Tom Davies <tomcecf@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi :)
> Perhaps;
> 1.  create a copy of the file
> 2.  rename the file-ending from .ods to .zip
> 3.  open with an archive-manager (on Gnu&Linux you might be able to
> skip step 2 but if not then just double-clicking on the .zip should
> open it) 4.  inside the zipfile is a folder called something like
> "images". 5.  open each image in turn until you find the bad ones and
> delete them 6.  rename the file-ending from .zip to .ods
> 7.  does the file still open or does it crash or not open at all?
>
> Sorry this answer is a bit of a painful route and totally inelegant!
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
>
>
> On 9 September 2014 14:58, dave boland <dboland9@fastmail.fm> wrote:
>
> > All,
> >
> > I did a drawing using Draw, then exported to PDF.  The PDF had some
> > extraneous objects in it, so I was trying to figure out where they
> > came from.  The first step is to see if there are any objects that
> > are hidden (behind something else, or a color the same as the
> > background, etc.) in the source drawing.  How do I do that?  Select
> > All doesn't seem to help.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Dave
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