Hi! Am 23.01.2011 13:50, schrieb Tom Davies: > This is a problem when opening any ".doc" or ".docX" document in any other > office suite or even just on another machine sometimes. We have seen that MS > Office 2007 ".docX" opened in MS Office 2010 have similar problems especially > noticeable with pictures. Sometimes opening an ".odt" created in OpenOffice > or > LibreOffice also has problems in MS Office. > > For my company's website i tend to send a pdf/gif of the document along with > the > editable version so that people can see what i was aiming for. "Save As ..." > or > "Export to" pdf and then Gimp or other picture editing software to "Save As > .." > gif, gives me the lightest weight accurate picture of the document.
I agree, interchanging doc and docx, even between different versions of the same product, is likely to lead to different results. Producing PDFs along with the editable version seems like a good workaround. Since the users of MS Office versions before 2007 do not always PDF producing software, it could also be useful to have Microsoft Word Viewer available on Windows machines, if editing is not necessary. > Of course pdf is also proprietary and difficult for people to edit unless > they > spend more money buying special software which is why i send an ".odt" or > ".doc" > along with the gif. PDFs might be difficult to edit directly, but there are enough free PDF readers around with a commenting feature. > There was some discussion about all this a couple of months ago and people > said > that formatting the pictures "inline" minimised the problems. Right-click on > the image to auto-format text to flow around the object so that even if the > image does move the document still appears to look reasonably correct. I'm > not > entirely sure what is meant by "inline" in this context. "Inline" probably means that the image is placed left-bound within the text or a separate paragraph, set "In line with text" in Word. From what I understand, having text flow around the picture would mean the opposite, but might also work to keep everything readable. If documents are to be interchanged, using complex formatting (such as overlaying pictures and text) is generally not a good idea. If there are custom drawings on top of pictures, they should be grouped with the picture, or modified externally and then imported. > ________________________________ > From: marste <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Sun, 23 January, 2011 9:36:55 > Subject: [libreoffice-users] Docx with image > > I have a docx files made with Office 2007 that has pictures and text. Opening > with LibreOffice, the pictures were all over each other. > It seems there are problems with conversion of the file when there are images. > Kind regards, Matthias -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
