OK, I think I have solved it. I've been a victim of copy/paste. My OCR software creates a Word document if I want it to, and has no facility to create an OOo writer document. So I did a copy/paste from the recognized document window to a Writer blank file. No graphic.
I repeated the process with Word; copy/paste same way. It worked. Doing a little sluething I found the graphic sitting in one of the mso* temp files. Where I thought I was copying a simple jpeg and text, I was actually copying the text and not getting the somehow *linked* mso* image! That's because the OCR output was set to save a file to Word format, although what I actually did was a copy/paste operation. If I changed the output to create a WP file say, it created a WP image. So a copy/paste brought along the WP equivalent, whatever it was, and of course, failed miserably. I got here thanks to your inquiry, so, THANKS! It at least gave me a direction to consider. Guess the long & short is, either find better OCR app that'll handle Writer, or do the transfers via Word. Writer et al is just fine; it's the old GIGO at work again, along with a little cockpit ignorance. So I'm smarter, but dang it, all I'm smart about is another LOCK that MS has on me! Guess I'll go check out RTF and the other formats now; maybe there's something there that will work. BTW, using the clipboard for the transfer was no help either. THANKS! Twayne > Are the images embedded in the document, or are they links? One way to > check, apart from a macro, is to copy your document to a "zip" file > extension (copy hello.odt to hello.zip) and then unzip the document. > Look for the images in one of the directories. > > Twayne wrote: >> Hi guys n gals, >> >> Need some help: XP Pro SP3 OOo 3.0: >> Graphics will not display in Writer; only a URL to the graphic. >> >> I've gone into Tools; Options and made sure View; Display; Graphics >> and Objects is ticked, which is how I've done it for the last couple >> of revision levels of OOo. It was fine in 2.4.1 and a 3 BETA I >> tried. After a lot of looking through the various settings, ALL >> of them<g>, I don't see anything else that would keep images from >> being >> displayed. Am I missing something obvious? >> >> Funny thing is, they displayed OK on ONE of 3 documents I've tried it >> with so far; without my having changed anything. That was an article >> from ZDNet I copied/pasted from the 'net. There were no graphics at >> first, I closed the program, and when I reopened that file, it >> offered to Recover it (reason for recovery unknown, nothing >> crashed), and voila, the graphics were there! But no luck on the >> other two or anything else I've tested. >> >> Haven't looked for an MD5 to compare yet, don't even know if there is >> one, but I'll look. But thought I'd ask here in case it's just >> something dumb I'm missing. >> >> TIA, >> >> Twayne >> >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
