Rick Bilonick wrote:
On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 18:38 -0800, Tim Wescott wrote:
Rick Bilonick wrote:
I'm using OOo 2.1 on Fedora 6 (using the OOo site 2.1 not Fedora's
rpms). This is an ongoing saga working with a 350 page document. Just
when I think I understand how OOo works, it surprises (and disappoints)
me. I have a large number of pictures, most if not all inserted into
frames and I've captioned the frames. Every time I make major revisions,
I save to a new file for that version. I've had to pin down most of the
frames to keep them from stacking over each other (using the lock
position, size, and contents). I moved a number of frames to different
locations. Then did a page preview only to see that 4 frames with pics I
never moved (nearer the beginning of the document - the ones I moved
around were nearer the end) - the pictures disappeared. The captions
remained but the pics were gone. I had to copy the pics back in from an
earlier version.
Does anyone have an idea WHY this would happen? What could I have done
or OOo done to cause this?
I recall having that problem. I was able to work around that by saving
pictures as a link to a file that I kept with the document. This worked
well enough to let me publish a book
(http://www.wescottdesign.com/actfes/actfes.html), but it's not the best
answer to the problem.
This problem seemed to go away with OOo 2.0 -- you should file a bug if
it's still an issue.
Well it's definitely a problem with 2.1. It's happened at least 3 times
on different occasions. I did file a bug report.
You are saying that this does not happen with links. If that is the
case, maybe I should take the time to change all the pictures to links.
The problem is that there are over 90 pictures. I wish I knew this when
I started. I didn't use links because there were/are problems if you
should export to a .doc file. Fortunately, I'm not planning on doing
that.
Thanks for the input. Sometimes it seems I'm the only one that
experiences bizarre problems with OOo. (Maybe it's because I invariably
push software to the limit.)
I've experienced bizarre problems on nearly every editor I've ever used,
and _every_ word processor.
It comes from being picky about formats, and writing book-length works,
I think.
--
Tim Wescott
Wescott Design Services
www.wescottdesign.com
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