From using various word processors over the last 20+ years I have found
that all of them this problem at times. Some of the most likely images
to disappear from them have been ones that the images have been zipped
and then unzipped are more likely to do it when the file is exchanged on
a network.
I agree with Jean that linking would spell trouble here.
Ian
On 22/12/11 9:20 AM, Jean Weber wrote:
Two MB (the largest of our chapter files) is not a large file. The
compiled books are, of course, a bit larger (up to 10-12MB, as I
recall) but that is still not particularly large. The number of
illustrations is often large enough to cause display problem, but I
don't think that would be any different if the images were linked
instead of embedded: they still use memory when displayed on screen.
Linking has some advantages but it also offers lots of opportunities
for people (especially inexperienced volunteers, but even old-timers
like me) to muck up the files. I don't have the ambition to list all
the ways, but one is for people to fail to collect the latest set of
images when editing a chapter.
In a one-person shop, or in a well-supervised and well-trained team,
linking can be a good way to do things. For us, I think it's just
asking for trouble.
--Jean
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 22:09, Tom Davies<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi :)
I'm beginning to think that linking might be a better option for my newsletter
at work too. One of the major problems with Word was that the file got so
large it would crash the older machines.
--- On Wed, 21/12/11, Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejer<[email protected]>
wrote:
From: Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejer<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Graphics vanishing
To: [email protected]
Date: Wednesday, 21 December, 2011, 4:49
On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 09:07:04 +1000
Jean Weber<[email protected]> wrote:
Yes. If you were to unzip the ODT file, you would find the pictures in
the Picture folder. (Linked pictures are not in the Picture folder.)
--Jean
... which makes me think that linking instead of embedding might make
version updates easier?
Yours,
M
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Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejer
http://syntaktisk.dk * [email protected]
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