Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre Office saving spreadsheets as images when saving as Word docx!?

At 16:33 14/04/2017 -0500, Brian Noname wrote:
> I've just discovered that when I save a copy of 
> an invoice it's saving the spreadsheet part as 
> an image. This is not the behavior I expected. 
> [...] When I save a copy of this file as Word 
> 2007/2010/2013 (*.docx) if converts the 
> spreadsheets as an image! [...] The older Word 
> 97 format is not readable anymore by one of my 
> customers. If I save an 2003 .xml version 
> Libreoffice can't even open a readable document again!?

You are tying yourself in knots here - and quite unnecessarily.

o Don't believe what one customer tells you about 
what s/he can or cannot handle: they may just not 
be competent enough to understand. My bank 
provides documents in the format it chooses; it 
may respond to suggestions for changes from 
customers in general, but it certainly wouldn't 
believe me if I simply claimed I couldn't handle 
what it provided. Is your bank any different?

o You are confusing on the one hand the format in 
which you keep our own records and active 
documents and on the other hand what you send 
your customers. You may need part of a 
spreadsheet in a text document to be active but 
you should not want your customers to be able to 
modify your invoices easily. They may halve the price and pay you accordingly!

o Save and keep your own documents in 
LibreOffice's native Open Document Format 
formats, here .odt and .ods. Use a DDE link to an 
.ods spreadsheet document in your .odt text document if you wish.

o Send your customers a frozen document. You need 
a format that is suitable for final versions of 
documents and is robust to changes between 
systems - operating system, installed fonts, 
printers, printer drivers, and so on - and is 
also easily displayed by and printed from 
application software that is easily available for 
a wide range of platforms and conveniently free 
of charge for your customers. That is not *any* 
word processor document format; that's PDF. Oh 
look: LibreOffice will export your documents as PDF.

At 10:30 16/04/2017 -0500, Brian Noname wrote:
> I can't dictate to paying clients what software to use to open my invoices.

No, but you can dictate the format in which you 
choose to provide invoices - providing that is reasonable (as PDF is).

> I can't just send it in ODF. Unless MS Office 
> has suddenly decided to support reading ODF files.

Microsoft claims it has done this - though not 
"suddenly". (But you shouldn't want to use office formats anyway; see above.)

> I could send it in PDF, and will if I have no other choice.

It's the best choice: you need no "other choice".

> I use this system for my business. It has to 
> work, or I have to use something else.

As always, you are very welcome to use whatever 
software you wish. LibreOffice will work for you, but chacun à son goût.

At 14:14 16/04/2017 -0500, Brian Noname wrote:
> As long as I maintain the object in an ODF 
> format, as a document or a template, it works as it should.

Good. Using LibreOffice's native format for your 
own document files is what you should always do.

> It's only once LO saves it into an Office 2013 
> format, that it converts to an image.

So don't do that (for your own use). See above.

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker


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