> -----Original Message----- > From: Bruce Roorda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 17:39 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [users] export to Wort DOC format and images > > > > Zinger, Alexey (GE, Corporate, consultant) wrote: > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Bruce Roorda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 17:07 > >> To: [email protected] > >> Subject: Re: [users] export to Wort DOC format and images > >> > >> > >> > >> Zinger, Alexey (GE, Corporate, consultant) wrote: > >>>> -----Original Message----- > >>>> From: Zinger, Alexey (GE, Corporate, consultant) > >>>> Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 13:44 > >>>> To: [email protected] > >>>> Subject: [users] export to Wort DOC format and images > >>>> > >>>> There was a question posted a while back (in 2003!) on this list > >>>> about a problem with exporting from Writer to MS Word 97 > >> and up. The > >>>> person was running OO.o 1.0.1. I came across this because I'm > >>>> encountering the same issue on my end and we're nearing > >> 2008 and I'm > >>>> running OO.o 2.3. Is this an aberration or are we still > >> having this > >>>> problem? > >>> Just to clarify my own post, the issue is as follows. I'm > >> running OO.o 2.3 on Windows XP Professional. If I create a simple > >> document in Writer and add an image to it using Insert > >>> Picture > From File menu option, I get a resizable image in > >> the document. If I save the document to MS Word 97/2000/XP and > >> attempt to open it in MS Word, the image is either missing > or there > >> is a placeholder of correct size, but the actual picture > within that > >> placeholder is a small fraction of the space it's supposed to take > >> up. Clearly, there seems to be a problem and I'd think this is > >> something that others have encountered. > >> > >> You might try disabling hardware acceleration in the > display settings > >> on the computer with Word. > >> > >> Bruce Roorda > >> Possum Hill Farm > > > > Where can I find this option? I'd also like to add that if > I generate a document using MS Word 2000 with an image in it, > it renders correctly both in MS Word and Writer. > > Right click on a blank area of the screen, click "Properties" > on the context menu, go to the "Settings" tab of the next > dialog, click the "Advanced" button on that tab, go to the > "Troubleshoot" tab on the next dialog. There should be a > slider sort of control for hardware acceleration on the > "Troubleshoot" tab.
Thank you for the tip. No change, though. It seems there's a discrepancy between MS Word 2000 and whatever Word readers are being used by the developers and testers. I'm going to report this as a bug.
