Re: [libreoffice-users] Inserting a picture into a document

At 15:43 15/12/2014 +0000, John Scott wrote:
> Can you please help with inserting pictures into a Libre Office 
> writer document? I follow the procedure for image and can see the 
> picture in the frame when I click "Picture" or "Crop", but the 
> picture is not visible to send to anyone I am writing to when I add text.

When you insert an image into a text (Writer) document, there are two 
ways to do so: linking and embedding. You will see a Link tick box in 
the "Insert picture" dialogue to control this.

Linking merely inserts a link to the file containing the picture, and 
this is accessed each time you open the containing text file. This 
has the advantages that the text file is smaller than it would 
otherwise need to be and that the picture file can be independently 
updated with any changes being automatically carried into the text 
file. But the disadvantage is that the original picture file has to 
be available whenever the text file needs to be rendered - displayed 
or printed, that is. So not only you would need to send the picture 
file to your correspondent but it would need to end up in the same 
location relative to the text file on their system.

Embedding does what it says, so is easier and probably more suitable 
if you wish to distribute the final text document.

o To embed a new picture, ensure that Link is not ticked in the 
"Insert picture" dialogue.

o In an existing text file with linked pictures, you can embed the 
pictures very easily by going to Edit | Links... . Select each linked 
graphic and click Break Link to embed the graphic instead.

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker


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