Hi Philip, Le 28/05/2021 à 16:53, Philip Jackson a écrit : > Hi Sophi, > > On 28/05/2021 11:09, sophi wrote: >> 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 > > I've done as you asked and included a demo file with 14 linked images of > which roughly half get broken when I try to break all the links.
Thanks a lot! That will help to solve the issue Cheers Sophie -- Sophie Gautier so...@libreoffice.org GSM: +33683901545 IRC: sophi Foundation coordinator The Document Foundation -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org 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
