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 -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
