I'd suggest looking at bugs.freedesktop.org and search for similar problems. I know that image placement has been reported before and .docx is a nightmare to work with (Microsoft isn't very open about sharing their standards.....if you didn't know that :) ).
Regards, Joel P.S. If you don't see similar bug reports I suggest you report the bug and attach a test document so that we can look into it On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 9:11 AM, John King <johnmking...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > LO 3.5.4 on opensuse 12.2 > LO 3.6.3 on Windows XP > > Most of my colleagues are now using recent versions of Word, where docx is > the default format. Exchanging pure text documents is not a huge problem, > but I've run into difficulties with docx files containing cropped images, > of which there are many. > > When read into LO, the cropped images are not formatted correctly. Instead > of being cropped, the image is 'squashed' to the dimensions of the cropped > image, but no cropping has taken place. > > I've submitted a bug report as: > > > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/**show_bug.cgi?id=57378<https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57378> > > with sample files illustrating the problem. > > I can't find any setting in the LO options to overcome this, but I may be > missing something as I couldn't find any previous bug reports of this > phenomenon, so perhaps other people are not experiencing it. Can anyone > else confirm it happening? > > John King > > -- > For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+help@global.libreoffice.** > org <users%2bh...@global.libreoffice.org> > Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/**get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-** > unsubscribe/<http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/> > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.**documentfoundation.org/** > Netiquette <http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette> > List archive: > http://listarchives.**libreoffice.org/global/users/<http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/> > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > -- *Joel Madero* LibO QA Volunteer jmadero....@gmail.com -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted