Richard Cleaveland wrote:
Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
Richard Cleaveland wrote:
When a WORD document is opened in OOo writer the images appear
square and of uniform size. To get them to be properly sized it's
necessary to, one by one, do a four-click procedure to achieve
"original size."
First , why is this - perhaps there's something I'm missing.
Hmmm... must have something to do with the Word doc itself (or the
way the images are inserted or anchored within it), because that
doesn't happen when I open Word docs in OOo Writer. What version of
Word were these docs created in, or does it happen with docs from any
version of Word?
The Word file is created by third-party software (The master
Genealogist, top-of-the-line genealogy program); it opens fine in Word
itself *unless* there are too many footnotes/endnotes in which case
Word fails anyway. The fact that Writer does NOT fail under these
circumstances encourages me to use it, but the need to fix the images
discourages me.
I shall bring this to the attention of the third-party developer and
see what happens.
FWIW here is the request I have sent to the developer of TMG:
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There have been several postings on the forum which have made reference
to the fact that word files (*.doc) created by TMG, while opening ok in
MSWord, when opened in Open Office Writer show images compressed to
squares, sacrificing both aspect ratio and size. While it is possible to
correct this in Open Office Writer with a few clicks per image, when
there are many images this becomes quite burdensome.
I have made some tests that show that it is a characteristic of TMG's
output that triggers this problem. A file including images developed in
Word (or converted through Word) opens correctly in Open Office Writer.
As a user I would like to encourage the transition to Open Office for
two reasons. While cost of the word processing program is not much of a
factor for me, it certainly is for some others - Open Office is free.
But the primary reason is that Word fails (aborts) if there are too many
footnotes/endnotes in the TMG-created report. This acts in opposition to
a genealogist's objective to clearly document the sources of information.
In conversation with Bob Velke [TMG developer] a short time ago he
indicated that this has been a Word problem for considerable time, and
that Microsoft was notified of it several Word versions ago and has
failed to fix it. This suggests that MS doesn't consider it much of a
problem and we can't look forward to a fix very soon, if ever. There is
some question of the number of footnotes generated which cause Word to
fail; I know that it fails with 4208.
As a consequence of these factors, I'd like to encourage Wholly Genes to
look into the problem to determine the cause of the incompatibility with
Open Office Writer and either develop some kind of accommodation in
TMG's output or work with the Open Office people to resolve the issue in
Writer.
I should point out that the use of the unique footnote feature in TMG
ameliorates the problem, at least in my case. It reduces the count of
endnotes to 1189, which Word can handle. However my database is modest
in size to many others I've seen noted here and on the TMG list.
Dick
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