Re: [libreoffice-users] Breaking of external links in Writer works poorly

Hi Sophi,

On 28/05/2021 11:09, sophi wrote:
> Hi Philip,
> Le 26/05/2021 à 20:40, Philip Jackson a écrit :
> > I want to make a new version of a book I wrote in Writer around 2016. My
> > master document has 16 chapters with 68 images linked in (as distinct
> > from embedded). The odt file is 6.4 MB and the images total another 5.4
> > MB, they are b&w line drawings in png format.
> >
> > My standard practice which I've carried out many times over the last few
> > years (but not in the past year) is to make a copy of the master odt
> > file and then to break the links in that copy so that the images are
> > embedded. Then I save the file and move the copy to a new directory and
> > prepare the new edition.
> >
> > This time, however, the link breaking doesn't work fully. To break the
> > links, I go Edit > 'Links to external files', highlight all the links
> > and click "Break link". Checking on Edit then shows 'Links to external
> > files' greyed out and right clicking on any image and checking the
> > properties doesn't show any path for the image. So all looks good and it
> > appears that the links have been broken and the images are now embedded.
> >
> > After moving to a new directory, the first 7 chapters were ok but the
> > remainder showed missing images. Moving the file back to its original
> > directory got all the missing images back again and Edit > 'Links to
> > external files' showed that half the images were, in fact,  still linked.
> >
> > Various trials showed that breaking the links 1 or 2 at a time worked
> > (as did right-click on the image and then 'Replace'). Attempting to
> > break four or more links at a stroke appeared to work but saving,
> > closing and reopening the file (without even moving to a new directory)
> > show that the links are all still present.
> >
> > I have repeated these trials many times using both LO 6.4.7.2 on
> > UbuntuStudio 20.4.2 and also LO 7.1.2.2 on Windows10. The result is
> > always as I've described above. So I don't suspect a fault in my
> > installations but I do wonder if something has changed within Writer
> > since I made my original file in 2016  relative to the linking process?
> >
> > Has anyone else experienced problems in this area?
> Could you report your experience on this issue and if possible provide a
> test sample ?
> https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=140829
> Thanks in advance,
> Kind regards
> Sophie

I've done as you asked and included a demo file with 14 linked images of which roughly half get 
broken when I try to break all the links.

Philip


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