One thing I noticed about disappearing graphics was that some figure
graphics were attached "as characters"--a method that is used for
inserting "inline" graphics along with the text. IOW, on a line of text,
as a character. Figure graphics should be attached differently.
Whenever those figure graphics were "missing," they were still contained
within the ODT file; however, they were invisible. I would detect them
by hunting around with a cursor for their outlines--and then either
delete them or cut-and-paste them to reattach them where they should
have been--inside their figures. If I was unsure where the one I found
was supposed to be (which figure), I would simply paste them somewhere
at the end of the chapter file for storage, to be inserted afterward.
Gary
On 2/3/2014 1:33 PM, John Smith wrote:
Hi Gary
Happily for me, disappearing graphics have not been a problem for a
long time now.
With respect to the Writer guides, Milos has done some work and
'cleaned' them using some software routines. Unfortunately there
appears to be some random changes made to some of the custom styles we
use (not the coloured backgrounds to styles that are in the 'cleaned'
files, but others). I have adopted the routine for Writer of copying
and pasting content from the 'clean' files into a new v3_4 template in
order to reset all the styles that have the same names, to those in
the template.
I am going to keep multiple copies for the time being. My earlier
problem was with v4.2.0.3 and now we're into v4.2.0.4 I'm hoping it
will be trouble free. Time will tell.
Regards
JohnS
On 03/02/2014 04:09, Gary Schnabl wrote:
A recurring problem I occasionally encountered is having some (or
all) of the Figure graphics disappearing in some (corrupted?) Writer
chapter files for one reason or another--sometimes, even before any
editing/rewriting was done to them. So, I would make multiple files
in the process of editing docs in order to enable returning to an
intermediate edited copy with its graphics still intact--thus not
losing all that editing effort.
Gary
On 2/2/2014 2:03 PM, John Smith wrote:
Hi Gary
No, no idea why it crashed. I was just editing happily and it
disappeared off screen, with no announcement, on one of the
occasions, another occasion had the look of a 'standard' crash with
warnings and recovery options. It was from one of these, after it
took a good ten minutes to recover a document and something like
five to six minutes to delete a single character that I did a
copy/paste into a new clean template. I did this a couple of times
all told during the work on the chapter.
Copy/paste doesn't transfer over the edits, that is, the deleted or
changed text, with or without 'Record Changes- Show' being enabled
when copying is done. Hence the document not displaying changes made
before pasting.
Regards
JohnS
On 01/02/2014 22:52, Gary Schnabl wrote:
Do you have any idea why they crashed? Did you try a copy (Ctrl-A
and Ctrl-C)-and-paste of the entire chapter file unto a clean, new
ODT file from the most current template?
Gary
On 2/1/2014 5:33 PM, John Smith wrote:
Hi
The GS Guide Ch4 has been uploaded to here;
http://www.odfauthors.org/libreoffice/english/getting-started/draft-lo-4.2/chapter-4-getting-started-with-writer/view
Unfortunately, with this copy I had a lot of trouble with LO
crashing and file corruption. There are almost no recorded changes
prior to about page 21 and masses of deleted pages after the
document ends. The chapter is good to go in spite of this.
Regards
Johns
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