Re: [users] Disappearing Pictures

2007-02-05 Thread Andis Lazdinsh
I agree that it's better to anchor as character and to use table parameters for right placement, and it's better to embed graphics. Than you will be able to move this file from one machine to another without loosing information. Linked graphics can be easily copied into file using Edit --

Re: [users] Disappearing Pictures

2007-02-05 Thread Hagar de l'Est
Andis Lazdinsh wrote: Linked graphics can be easily copied into file using Edit -- Links... -- Break links (or something like this). For 80 pictures it will take some time. Not at all. In this dialog, you can select all the links at once and break the links to embed the pics. Hagar.

Re: [users] Disappearing Pictures

2007-02-05 Thread Ron Ferguson
Why is it not a good idea? Ron Ferguson Andis Lazdinsh wrote: Hi! I don't know from where comes idea to insert pictures into frames, but I think it's definetly not good idea. I hope this will help! Andis - To

Re: [users] Disappearing Pictures

2007-02-05 Thread Hagar de l'Est
Ron Ferguson wrote: Why is it not a good idea? Ron Ferguson Andis Lazdinsh wrote: Hi! I don't know from where comes idea to insert pictures into frames, but I think it's definetly not good idea. I hope this will help! Perhaps because of this :

Re: [users] Disappearing Pictures

2007-02-05 Thread Ron Ferguson
Hagar de l'Est wrote: Ron Ferguson wrote: Why is it not a good idea? Ron Ferguson Andis Lazdinsh wrote: Hi! I don't know from where comes idea to insert pictures into frames, but I think it's definetly not good idea. I hope this will help! Perhaps because of this :

Re: [users] Disappearing Pictures

2007-02-05 Thread Andis Lazdinsh
Hi! First of all it's problem when you sometimes need to send your writer documents to ms word user with .doc exension. I think every user of openoffice.org writer sometimes should do it. Second, also related to other formats, is saving to html. Placement of pictures also will be changed in

Re: [users] Disappearing Pictures

2007-02-05 Thread Ron Ferguson
Andis Lazdinsh wrote: Hi! First of all it's problem when you sometimes need to send your writer documents to ms word user with .doc exension. I think every user of openoffice.org writer sometimes should do it. Second, also related to other formats, is saving to html. Placement of pictures also

Re: [users] Disappearing Pictures

2007-02-04 Thread Rick Bilonick
On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 08:48 +0100, Hagar de l'Est wrote: The pics have DISAPPEARED - nowhere to be found in the document. Upon further investigation if I click where the picture USED TO BE, an outline appears and I can bring up the picture panel. If I go to the picture panel it shows a

Re: [users] Disappearing Pictures

2007-02-04 Thread Hagar de l'Est
Thanks for the info. However, I'm not placing the pics in a frame and then in another frame. Each pic is inserted into one frame. Then I caption the frame. The pic is anchored to the frame. I do this manually. What do you mean exactly by 'manually' ? If you right click, then select Caption,

Re: [users] Disappearing Pictures

2007-02-04 Thread Rick Bilonick
On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 21:52 +0100, Hagar de l'Est wrote: Thanks for the info. However, I'm not placing the pics in a frame and then in another frame. Each pic is inserted into one frame. Then I caption the frame. The pic is anchored to the frame. I do this manually. What do you mean

Re: [users] Disappearing Pictures

2007-02-04 Thread Andis Lazdinsh
Hi! I remember that problem from first versions of writer as well as word up to version 2k, when I leave it. That problem was caused by large amount of graphics, small amount of computer memory and use of complicated graphics formatting and placement elements, like those you mentioned. I

Re: [users] Disappearing Pictures

2007-02-04 Thread Rick Bilonick
On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 07:58 +0200, Andis Lazdinsh wrote: Hi! I remember that problem from first versions of writer as well as word up to version 2k, when I leave it. That problem was caused by large amount of graphics, small amount of computer memory and use of complicated graphics

Re: [users] Disappearing Pictures

2007-02-04 Thread Hagar de l'Est
Rick Bilonick wrote: I'm not inserting pics into two frames - just one. I caption the frame. You're right, inserting a caption to a frame doesn't create an additional frame. Perhaps the problem come from the anchoring. I would trust 'As Character' the most because it's less volatile than

RE: [users] Disappearing Pictures

2007-02-03 Thread Rick Bilonick
On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 15:08 +0100, Joe Grech wrote: Rt click on the pict; from the dialogue box that appears choose: anchor: to page (or to paragraph if it is more appropriate). I'm not sure what problem this is repsonse is supposed to fix! If you read what I sent, doesn't seem to apply at

Re: [users] Disappearing Pictures

2007-02-03 Thread Hagar de l'Est
The pics have DISAPPEARED - nowhere to be found in the document. Upon further investigation if I click where the picture USED TO BE, an outline appears and I can bring up the picture panel. If I go to the picture panel it shows a thumbnail of the picture BUT THE PICTURE DOES NOT DISPLAY AT ALL

RE: [users] Disappearing Pictures

2007-02-02 Thread Joe Grech
Rt click on the pict; from the dialogue box that appears choose: anchor: to page (or to paragraph if it is more appropriate). From: Rick Bilonick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: users@openoffice.org To: OOo users@openoffice.org Subject: [users] Disappearing Pictures Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 00:48:17

[users] Disappearing Pictures

2007-01-31 Thread Rick Bilonick
I'm using OOo 2.1 on Fedora 6 (using the OOo site 2.1 not Fedora's rpms). This is an ongoing saga working with a 350 page document. Just when I think I understand how OOo works, it surprises (and disappoints) me. I have a large number of pictures, most if not all inserted into frames and I've