Michele Zarri wrote:
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.
Very sad... It might be that OOo format can represent and do things that
Word can NOT reproduce. I believe that it might go the other way as well.
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.
The problem is that I work in a mixed environment and the final goes to
Word. I always create my figures anchored as a character on a paragraph
by itself. I have the caption below it in a paragraph by itself. As
such, I NEVER have a problem exporting to Word format. On the other
hand, after we go to a certain stage, I NEVER bring it back into OOo
because some of those issues will arise, especially if someone inserts a
graphics in one of those formats.
In summary I do not think we should worry too much about this.
I think that we should file an issue if it has not already been done.
Personally, I have a strong dislike for our format because there is a
bug in OOo that fails on our format some times (and it requires removal
from inside the XML in a text editor to repair) and we can not export to
certain other formats because of it. If you stay in ODT or PDF format,
you are mostly safe with occasional data lose (I have not checked to see
if the bug has been fixed; the cause has been identified, however). OK,
I just checked. The cause was identified December 13 2006 and it is not
yet fixed.
http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=72077
Regards,
Michele
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