Hi :) Ahah, that is interesting. I haven't tried zipping documents or pictures. My guess now is that there are a few very specific sets of circumstances that all end with the same result. Disentangling one specific set of circumstances would be a nightmare.
Btw many thanks to Jean (and Ian) for helping me avoid another dead-end again. I might try linking to pictures in the newsletter here but if i run into a wall i wont work to hard or worry to much about it. Thanks and regards from Tom :) --- On Thu, 22/12/11, Ian Leyton <[email protected]> wrote: From: Ian Leyton <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Graphics vanishing To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, 22 December, 2011, 4:58 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 >> __ >> Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejer >> http://syntaktisk.dk * [email protected] >> >> -- >> Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] >> Problems? >> http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >> Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >> List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ >> All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be >> deleted >> >> -- >> Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] >> Problems? >> http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >> Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >> List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ >> All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be >> deleted >> -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
