Hi :) Yes, i think Fig1 etc is not much more descriptive. I'm guessing that Hazel really meant something more along the lines of "SaveAs-dialogue" or "ChartCreate1" or whatever Regards from Tom :)
--- On Fri, 23/12/11, Gary Schnabl <gschn...@swdetroit.com> wrote: From: Gary Schnabl <gschn...@swdetroit.com> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] A suggestion about graphics To: documentation@global.libreoffice.org Date: Friday, 23 December, 2011, 20:38 On 12/23/2011 12:47 PM, Hazel Russman 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. One obvious problem with naming graphics Figx is that an addition or deletion or rearrangement of them will alter the numbering somewhat. Gary -- Gary Schnabl Southwest Detroit, two miles NORTH! of Canada--Windsor, that is... Technical Editor forum <http://TechnicalEditor.LivernoisYard.com/phpBB3/> -- 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 -- 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
