Re: [libreoffice-users] Linking to embedded images.

Hi :)
Thanks :)  I have a feeling that if you save in non-ODF formats then the
file-size might increase dramatically as the images might become
duplicated.  It is good to hear that ODF does behave itself wrt this :))
Regards from
Tom :)



On 1 June 2015 at 21:10, Steve Edmonds <steve.edmonds@ptglobal.com> wrote:

>  Thanks Tom.
> This LO is pretty smart, looking in the .odt file it must save images with
> a name that is generated from a fingerprint, like an MD5 sum.
> If I insert an image into a new file, from the file system or the clip
> board (copy/paste from another application or document) the same image ends
> up with the same file name within LO.
> Multiple instances of the image within the LO document don't drastically
> increase the file size (it does increase because thumbnails.png within
> increases but the original image is only stored once).
> I am resetting a 142MB 148 page document that should be 1/20th that size
> with what I have found.
> I just need to check AOO now to see if the documents are editable in
> either because I need to print from AOO due to a regression in LO.
>
> Thanks again Tom for stirring the grey matter. Steve
>
>
>
> On 2015-06-01 10:28, Tom Davies wrote:
>
>   Hi :)
>  If you insert the image one time and then copy&paste from that inserted
> image doesn't that make each copy just reference the 1st one rather than
> create duplicates?
>
>  I am not sure what happens if documents are then viewed in programs
> other than OpenOffice/LibreOffice.
>  Regards from
>  Tom :)
>
>
>
>
>
> On 31 May 2015 at 23:20, Steve Edmonds <steve.edmonds@ptglobal.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi.
> > I need to create a document with small images repeated hundreds of times.
> > I would like to use the one image, inserted once and then linked to that
> > same image so the document doesn't bloat excessively (the images need to be
> > contained in the document as I email it and share it with others on OSX,
> > Windows and Linux.).
> > Can I do this in Libre Office. Are images from the gallery treated
> > differently, i.e. if I add my small images to the gallery.
> > Thanks, Steve
> >
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