Hi :) +1 You do get a little more used to it but it's still a pita Regards from Tom :)
>________________________________ > From: Bjørn K Nilssen <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Wednesday, 7 November 2012, 20:39 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] LO to .doc with background image? > >I'm not at all a fan of this lists unusual Reply-To usage :( > >------- Forwarded message ------- >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 >> >> > > >--Sendt med Operas revolusjonerende e-postprogram: http://www.opera.com/mail/ > >--For unsubscribe instructions 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/users/ >All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > > > > -- For unsubscribe instructions 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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
