https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163197
Bug ID: 163197
Summary: WRITER -- Insert Image -- the filename of the inserted
image should be remembered for ever
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 24.2.6.2 release
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Created attachment 196774
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ILLUSTRATION: the iMAGE window with the "options tab" on top
hi,
If you insert an image in a document, Libreoffice "imports it", which means,
it makes its own copy of the original image.
There's no link to the original file.
AND it is good like this.
BUT...
It is a bad thing that you're NOT able to trace back which image it was that
you once inserted in your document.
Imagine a scenario:
Your book is on the way to the print house, but your publisher tells you to
change an image on page 72 because there is some artifact along the frame and
it looks bad... as if it had a black border.
You say: sure, and you start to open your old files.
You find the folder with images of that chapter.
But there are about 10 versions of each picture.
Like, "more green", "cropped", "contrast", and many more.
How can you tell which of these image variations is in the book?
Only by looking.
You look at the picture in the book, and the ones in your picture folder for
that chapter.
You look at them and try to figure which one. The differences are very subtle.
Wouldn't it be great if the name of the original file was accessible in
Libreoffice Writer when you click on the image in the document to see its
properties?
I say, It would be SUPER GREAT!
It only requires that when the image is being imported, its filename is also
saved.
If it is saved then it takes only one extra row in the "Options" tab of the
"IMAGE" window (when you click on the image inserted in the document).
Under "name" there could be an other row:
"original filename"
(the path isn't interesting, users use cloud and access documents on various
machines)
If you can read the filename of the imported file, you can say you're lucky.
Cause it is easy to find the original image if you have its name.
It takes 1 sec. PLus you can take it for granted (be sure) that it is exactly
that.
That's why it'd be so great o have this info saved with our document...
the original filenames of the inserted images.
- - - thank you for developing Libreoffice AND WRITER :) - - -
I'm doing it already.
But then you open the document and there's no way to tell which image was
inserted there.
If you're lucky, you'll quickly find it, cause you see what that picture it is.
BUT imagine that you had created about 6 versions of it.
that is, there are 6 pictures of which you have to pick the one in the
document.
So, chances are that you pick a wrong one, modify it, and insert in the book.
It will be published, and you'll realize that the colors are ugly, and you
remember that there was a bad version with bad color - and you have it in the
book now.
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