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From: "Bjørn K Nilssen" <[email protected]>
To: "Brian Barker" <[email protected]>
Cc:
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] LO to .doc with background image?
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2012 21:28:00 +0100
On Wed, 07 Nov 2012 20:02:19 +0100, Brian Barker
<[email protected]> wrote:
At 16:00 07/11/2012 +0100, Bjørn K Nilssen wrote:
I made a 'template' in LO for an A3 leaflet with a background image
(page style) on the first page. No margins, but with boxes with text,
table and images on top of it. Everything works fine in LO, and also
if exported as PDF. But when saved as .doc the entire background image
is gone.
Any ideas about what happens? Can't you use background images in
Word? So far the client has to use the pdf ...
How have you determined that the background image has disappeared? Have
you (or has your client) opened the .doc file in genuine Microsoft Word
or in the freeware (Windows only) Word viewer? Or have you just
reopened the .doc file in LibreOffice and found the background absent
there? I think there may be circumstances where the .doc file does
retain the background but this is not converted correctly when reopened
in LibreOffice.
The background is gone both when I open the .doc file in LO and when he
opens it in Word.
Which may indicate that it is a problem with the export?
It is not a linked file.
And all the other images export/import just fine from the .doc file. It is
just the full-page-no-margins background image that disappears.
I'll probably be writing on a machine with genuine Word next week, and
then I could do some tests on a USB-stick to see if a background image
added inside Word will import into LO.
Note also that the Background tab of the Page Style dialogue (where you
selected the background graphic) has a "Link" box. If you tick this,
the graphic is linked and not embedded, and there may be problems when
you transfer the file to another file system - e.g. your client's -
where the original image file does not exist separately at the same
absolute file path. Try unticking that box. (But I'm not sure that
will make any difference.)
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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