I don't know if this will help anyone or not, but I had some success in figuring out the how/why of OO.o 3.2.2 screwing up images in large documents when you open a Word document for conversion, vetting and eventual saving as a PDF. XP Pro, SP3, all updates, OO.o 3.2.2 opening a Word 2002 .doc. If the file is fairly large, apparently over around 0k, images tend to move, leave tables, overlap, extend beyond margins, and oitherwise get locationally screwed up. No problem with PDF generation; it generates exactly what is in the PDF. I'm doing a fair amount of vetting changes, so repairing the image problems is turning out to be rather easy now or I'd use something different to create the PDFs.
What happens is, table boundaries seem to be ignored, period. If an image ended up in a table it's because that's where it was moved to, not because it is in the proper cell. Tables have been relocated to be behind images but in front of text. Images have been sent to the background, behind text, which makes them seem unclickable and unmovable. You cannot select an image or get is handles to show. The "trick", here at least, even though you cannot select the image visibly, is to click at some point where there is no text and then right-click and choose Bring to Front. This allows the image to be highlighted and you have the handles showing now. However, you cannot move it, or if you do move it, it will go anywhere but where you're trying to put it. On, and it's almost always a left-right movement of the images. If you need to move them vertically you'll have to temporarily move text around to make room for the image. With the image highlighted now, it'll show its handles, and at the top of the page in the menu, you'll see the white location of its position. If the image won't drag, and most will not, then adjust the top horizontal position indicator to bring the left & right sides of the image where you want it to be. If you're trying toput it back into a table, put your cursor where you want the image to be vertically. Then drag the right-side ruler position to where you want the right side of the picture. Then drag the left-side ruler position to where you want the left side of the image to be. And you're done. Caveat: When you move the right/left postoins, there is no ratio control; the picture stretches and then looks right agan when you move the left one. If it was sized to fit the table, that aspect returns. But if not, then there is no guarantee the aspect ration is right; you have to eyeball it. This is a lot different than version 2.x was, and manageable to a degree, but it still smells to the high heavens as one of the things that have been ignored in OO.o since the days of version 1 when it was first reported. I have 30 chapters left to go, so if anyone knows a better way, I'd appreciate hearing about it. This book contains a lot of images, so it's quite an annoyance to keep cleaning them up when you started with perfect alignment. OO.o has gotten better, but no cigar; images still suck when you open a perfectly formatted .doc file. Not acceptable, IMO. Hope this helps someone; it's not bad if only a few mages move on you. In smaller documents there are no poblems. If you wish to create an issue for this on your own, feel free but I personally won't get involved in that tracking system ever again. And don't be surprised if it comes back as "fixed" or "duplcate". It's not but it's simlar to what the problem used to be so is likely to be tossed instead of replacing the older, more inaccurate descriptions. Of course, duplicate my claims on your own before entering a new issue too. HTH, Twayne` --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
