Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 28046
Writer: Importing images
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:34:21 UTC
graphics from Draw in Writer: DDE/OLE copy or linking
I am also interested in this. I am going to try the "bug file" route to try to get the actual behavior simplified. If that succeeds, or if it does not succeed, I would be interested in working on this suggested doc. Lawrence
This same bug has been reported many times. 16156: Aug 2003, OO 1.1 20643: Oct 2003, OO 1.1 28046: Apr 2004 50398: Jun 2005, OO 2.0 beta 53266: Aug 2005, 680m122 72879: Dec 2006, OO 2.1 73343: Jan 2007, OO 2.1 81143: Aug 2007, OO 2.2.1 82873: Oct 2007, OO 2.3 93426: Sep 2008, OO 2.4.1 and OOO300m4 If the author of this Issue is still online, please consider the contents of 16156 and 93426. If the solution addresses your issue, please vote 2 for 16156.
This info is now on the wiki, here (for 2.4) http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOoAuthors_User_Manual/Getting_Started/Exporting_files and here (for 3.x) http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOo3_User_Guides/Getting_Started/Exporting_to_PDF
Ooops, wrong bug, please disregard the comment I just made.