I anchor all figure graphics "as character" in their own paragraph. If anyone does it differently in a user guide file, and I notice, I change it. This has worked more reliably for years in our docs than other methods. I don't have the time or energy to explain what the problems are when doing it differently.
--Jean On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 5:13 AM, Gary Schnabl <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >> >> > > > -- > To unsubscribe 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 > -- To unsubscribe 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
