On 7/5/07, Jean Hollis Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Earlier, I wrote, > Unfortunately, although it displays the text portions of a test > ODT file (created by OOo 2.2.1) just fine, all of the graphics > enclosed in frames ... give an "Error! Reference source not > found" message. For comparison, I opened the same ODT file in OOo and saved it as a MSWord document, then opened the .doc file in Word 2000. Then I saw the problems described a few days ago by Andrew Pitonyak: the frames containing the graphics and their captions had jumped all over the page (despite being anchored in their own paragraphs). It's looking like there is some major problem with OOo, or at least with the way we have been inserting and anchoring graphics. :-( Has anyone searched IssueTracker at OOo for bug reports on this? Or seen any comments on the [users] or [discuss] lists, which I don't have time to read any more? --Jean
Hello Jean, I do not have the number, but I know that this is a well known problem. I have often had problems with images anchoring with documents written in MS Word and opened with OOo so I expect the problem to exist also in the opposite direction. My understanding is that the problem is with the way MS Word manages the anchoring of figures. For example, MS Word does not allow anchoring to or as character, so whenever this type of anchoring is defined in a OOo document, the converter has to take some kind of decision on how to "translate" this in a way MS word understands it. So I do not expect a resolution any time soon. On the other hand I wonder how common the scenario is. Besides the use case Andrew presented, I expect that the reader of the OOo user guide will have OOo installed and that OOo is used to view the document. If the anchoring does not work, then there is always the pdf version that, as far as I am aware does not suffer from this issue. In summary I do not think we should worry too much about this. Regards, Michele
