CPHennessy wrote:
On Fri December 30 2005 13:42, 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.
Hi Dick,
if this is a file which opens correctly in MSWord then OOo should also open
it correctly. Can you please report this in issuezilla ?
( http://openoffice.org -> "My Pages" -> "Register", then when you receive a
confirmation email, "Login" and "File an issue" )
In this way the relevant developers will see your bug report and you will also
see the progress of this bug report if it is accepted.
If you can attach a minimum file which shows the problem that would also be a
very good idea.
Well, I gave it a good try, and I *think* it got submitted.
Your principle that Writer should correctly open any file that Word will
surprises me a little. I note that FireFox has taken a different view -
that it will conform to standards, even if IE will not (and thereby IE
works ok with pages that were written by MS software that creates the
non-standard pages). But of course I guess there isn't any standard for
Word files, is there? Unless one considers RTF, and even there I
understand that the specs are just vague enough that conformance is a
bit dicey.
BTW when I was earlier working on the problem I provided files to
Pitonyak but it turned out he couldn't recreate the problem because he
was using Linux and my system depends on windows directory structures.
He did provide a macro which could presumably run down the file and
correct the images while they were in Writer, but I really haven't the
expertise to properly apply it (although I have written Word and WP
macros in the past).
Regards, and thanks for taking an interest,
Dick
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