Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 66222
All embedded pictures lost when saving to .doc file
Last modified: 2006-06-08 10:00:40 UTC
I'm using OOo version 2.0.1.1 on Fedora Core 4 with all the latest patches. I create a document with pictures from files. The picture is an encapsulated postscript (.eps) file that I use OOo draw to convert to a .emf (enhanced metafile). I convert them because OOo has the nasty habit of not displaying eps files correctly (it screws up the size and makes them smaller with no way to correct them - it doesn't do this with emf's). I insert the emf (embedded not linked) and save as both a .odt and .doc. As long as the .doc file hasn't been closed, the emf picture appears and looks perfect. If I close the .doc and re-open - the picture is gone (this doesn't happen with the .odt version). This ALWAYS happens. If I take the .doc and .emf to windows, open in MS Word, and insert the .emf file in the .doc, the .emf displays perfectly. If I save the .doc from MS Windows, it opens perfectly in OOo and displays the .emf picture. Why can't I get OOo to store the .emf picutre in a .doc version file? How can OOo be used for compatibility with MS Word docs if it doesnt' save it's own pictures? Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong? I've checked options to see if something is set wrong but I don't see any applicable options to change. I know I'm embedding the pictures and not just linking them.
Please attach a document (native OO Writer .odt format) which contains some of the graphics to this issue, so that we can reproduce the problem here. Did you already try with newest downloadable OOo 2.0.3 release?
I was putting a file together (the original with the problem had proprietary info) and I believe I discovered what the problem was. In the original file, the picture was first inserted with the link box checked so that the picture was not embeded. Before trying to send the file via e-mail, I went to Edit | Links and broke the link (as described in the Help system to embed a previously linked picture). While this breaks the link, the picture does not seem to be retained when saved as a .doc. I created a new file and inserted the picture with the link box not checked. This embeded the picture from the beginning. Now when I save to .doc, the picture is retained.
Yes, the problem regarding linked images in Word export is knwon, see issue 29408. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 29408 ***
Closed.