Re: [libreoffice-users] Docx with image

Hi!

Am 23.01.2011 13:50, schrieb Tom Davies:
> This is a problem when opening any ".doc" or ".docX" document in any other 
> office suite or even just on another machine sometimes.  We have seen that MS 
> Office 2007 ".docX" opened in MS Office 2010 have similar problems especially 
> noticeable with pictures.  Sometimes opening an ".odt" created in OpenOffice or 
> LibreOffice also has problems in MS Office.
>
> For my company's website i tend to send a pdf/gif of the document along with the 
> editable version so that people can see what i was aiming for.  "Save As ..." or 
> "Export to" pdf and then Gimp or other picture editing software to "Save As .." 
> gif, gives me the lightest weight accurate picture of the document.

I agree, interchanging doc and docx, even between different versions of
the same product, is likely to lead to different results. Producing PDFs
along with the editable version seems like a good workaround. Since the
users of MS Office versions before 2007 do not always PDF producing
software, it could also be useful to have Microsoft Word Viewer
available on Windows machines, if editing is not necessary.

> Of course pdf is also proprietary and difficult for people to edit unless they 
> spend more money buying special software which is why i send an ".odt" or ".doc" 
> along with the gif.

PDFs might be difficult to edit directly, but there are enough free PDF
readers around with a commenting feature.

> There was some discussion about all this a couple of months ago and people said 
> that formatting the pictures "inline" minimised the problems.  Right-click on 
> the image to auto-format text to flow around the object so that even if the 
> image does move the document still appears to look reasonably correct.  I'm not 
> entirely sure what is meant by "inline" in this context.

"Inline" probably means that the image is placed left-bound within the
text or a separate paragraph, set "In line with text" in Word. From what
I understand, having text flow around the picture would mean the
opposite, but might also work to keep everything readable.
If documents are to be interchanged, using complex formatting (such as
overlaying pictures and text) is generally not a good idea. If there are
custom drawings on top of pictures, they should be grouped with the
picture, or modified externally and then imported.

> ________________________________
> From: marste <stefano.marzorati@gmail.com>
> To: users@libreoffice.org
> Sent: Sun, 23 January, 2011 9:36:55
> Subject: [libreoffice-users] Docx with image
>
> I have a docx files made with Office 2007 that has pictures and text. Opening
> with LibreOffice, the pictures were all over each other.
> It seems there are problems with conversion of the file when there are images.

Kind regards,
Matthias


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