On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 03:47, Hazel Russman <hazeldeb...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> In several user guides, we advise users to give their graphics useful names 
> rather than sticking with the default Graphic1, etc. Yet we don't follow this 
> advice ourselves!
>
> If graphics were given easily recognisable names (for example numbered 
> graphics being called Fig1, Fig2, etc., and inline graphics things like 
> FooIcon), then it would be much easier to handle the "disappearing graphics" 
> problem. The initial .odt file could be copied and unzipped, and if any 
> graphics were not shown in Writer, they could be retrieved from the graphics 
> subdirectory and displayed alongside with a simple display program like xv, 
> feh or eog. This would make editing/proofing much easier.
>
> Even if the file was actually stripped of graphics on saving (as shown by a 
> drastic reduction in its size), the graphics themselves would be safe and 
> could be zipped and uploaded along with the text file.
> --
> Hazel Russman <hazeldeb...@googlemail.com>


A very good suggestion. I would suggest more descriptive names than
Fig1, Fig2, etc. because the sequence of topics in a chapter often
changes.

--Jean

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