Hi Philip, Le 26/05/2021 à 20:40, Philip Jackson a écrit : > I want to make a new version of a book I wrote in Writer around 2016. My > master document has 16 chapters with 68 images linked in (as distinct > from embedded). The odt file is 6.4 MB and the images total another 5.4 > MB, they are b&w line drawings in png format. > > My standard practice which I've carried out many times over the last few > years (but not in the past year) is to make a copy of the master odt > file and then to break the links in that copy so that the images are > embedded. Then I save the file and move the copy to a new directory and > prepare the new edition. > > This time, however, the link breaking doesn't work fully. To break the > links, I go Edit > 'Links to external files', highlight all the links > and click "Break link". Checking on Edit then shows 'Links to external > files' greyed out and right clicking on any image and checking the > properties doesn't show any path for the image. So all looks good and it > appears that the links have been broken and the images are now embedded. > > After moving to a new directory, the first 7 chapters were ok but the > remainder showed missing images. Moving the file back to its original > directory got all the missing images back again and Edit > 'Links to > external files' showed that half the images were, in fact, still linked. > > Various trials showed that breaking the links 1 or 2 at a time worked > (as did right-click on the image and then 'Replace'). Attempting to > break four or more links at a stroke appeared to work but saving, > closing and reopening the file (without even moving to a new directory) > show that the links are all still present. > > I have repeated these trials many times using both LO 6.4.7.2 on > UbuntuStudio 20.4.2 and also LO 7.1.2.2 on Windows10. The result is > always as I've described above. So I don't suspect a fault in my > installations but I do wonder if something has changed within Writer > since I made my original file in 2016 relative to the linking process? > > Has anyone else experienced problems in this area?
Could you report your experience on this issue and if possible provide a test sample ? https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=140829 Thanks in advance, Kind regards Sophie -- Sophie Gautier [email protected] GSM: +33683901545 IRC: sophi Foundation coordinator The Document Foundation -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
