I am converting a load of documents to MS Word, ODF and PDF formats. I emailed this list some time back since some Word 97 files that I thought should work in LibreOffice wouldn't open. I submitted a bug for this which has now been fixed.
I decided to convert all this batch of old Word documents to Word 2002 (Word XP) format. This was successful. It seems sensible to do this. I started to convert these documents to PDF format. I noticed that one file had an audio comment in Word, that wasn't converted to ODF or made available in LibreOffice when opening the Word file. I extracted the WAV file and subsequently added it to the ODF version of the file, after deleting the useless Word comment. First problem is that the "Insert Movie and Sound..." option doesn't save Text Wrap properties for the graphic icon that is inserted into the document. I wanted a "Wrap Through" option to be selected by right clicking the icon and using the Wrap menu option. This was selected. On opening the file again it had "Page Wrap" selected not the "Through Wrap" I had saved! Note that graphics wrapping (inserting pictures) works properly and saves the correct wrap option e.g. "Though Wrap" is saved correctly for pictures, it just doesn't work for sound or video icons! SO WRAP OPTIONS ON INSERTED SOUND ICONS DON'T GET SAVED. I think this is a bug - can someone confirm? Second problem is dreadful for this feature (that I normally don't use). I am unable to insert ANY video into an ODF document. AVI videos that should work get inserted, but display a very big picture with a question mark. When played on the media player in LibreOffice I get audio but no video. This is like my main PC before I had to install the AVI codecs on it. AVI files Play OK on QuickTime. m4v videos also display the question mark and have audio playback. I am using MAC OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard. I have a 2009 21.5" iMac with 4Gb RAM and 1TB hard dirk drive. I have tried in LibreOffice 3.6.5 and 4.0.0.2 pre-release version with the same results - no video playback just audio. I have now tried LibreOffice 3.3.2 and the AVI file plays successfully there! It stops working in LibreOffice 3.4.2. The "Not saving the Wrap settings" problem is still there in LibO 3.3.2 and appears to never have worked. SO NO VIDEO PLAYBACK FOR .AVI AND .MOV FILES IN LibriOffice 3.4.2 ONWARDS. Thank you very much again for fixing the first bug (not opening all Word 97 files). I look forward to your attention. Declan Moriarty -- 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
