On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 12:40:25 -0500 "G. Roderick Singleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 11:08 -0500, DC Parris wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > I created a document using SUSE Linux 9.2's default OpenOffice.org > > installation. The doc contains screenshots in PNG format. I e-mailed > > the doc to myself @ work, where I use MS Office 2003 (not my choice to > > make). When I open the document, images are goofed up. I leave the > > images alone(revising only the text), e-mail the doc back to myself @ > > home, re-open it in OOo, and the images are fine. It's only in MS Office > > under WinXP Pro that they are messed up. > > > > I went through this the first time, but simply edited the images in MS > > Office, which caused me to have to re-edit them in OOo. I now just > > leave them alone. Any ideas how I can get clean pictures at both ends? > > If I were sending this to a co-worker running MSO/WinXP, it would be > > kind of frustrating. > > > > If there is a resource, just point me to it - my Googling effort just > > working. > > > > The problem is that MSO does not honor OOo anchors. I do not know why > but it is probably related to the fact that MSO file structure is a > trade secret of Micorsoft. I think we do a pretty good job of > interpreting MSO files but there is the warning that OOo is not 100% > compatible. Try various anchoring options in OOo to see which ones MSO > obeys. > -- > Documentation Co-Lead > PLEASE - keep list traffic on the list. Email sent directly to me may > be ignored utterly. > > "Dinna meddle wi' things ye ken nuthin' aboot!" > J.Herriot > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks. If I leave the images alone in MSO, I can re-open the doc in OOo and get a clean image. It's not that big a deal for my purposes, but if I were collaborating with others, it might be kind of rough, having to change the pics. I'll play around with the anchoring bit and see what happens. Thanks again for the tip. Don -- evangelinux GNU Evangelist http://matheteuo.org/ http://chaddb.sourceforge.net/ "Free software is like God's love - you can share it with anyone anytime anywhere." --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
