Dave Barton wrote:
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From: TomW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed 05 Mar 2008 10:18:17 EST
| Dave Barton wrote:
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| From: Lisi Reisz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| Date: Wed 05 Mar 2008 04:34:52 EST
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| | On Tuesday 04 March 2008 07:22, Jennifer Rickards wrote:
| |> Pictures/images copied and pasted into documents should always be
| |> embedded. So I cannot explain why that did not work for you.
| |
| | When my grandaughter used Impress for a presentation for school, and
| | copied and pasted the pictures she wanted, about a third of them
| | ended up linked. Fortunately we discovered this before she sent it to
| | her teacher and we were able to remedy it.
| |
| | She has continued to use "copy and paste" rather than "insert" [she's
| | 13 :-( ], and has continued to need to check for linking/embedding
| | because around a third of pictures continue to be linked.
| |
| | Lisi
|
| If an image is copied to and pasted from the clipboard there is nothing
| to "link" with, because the clipboard image is temporary in computer
| memory. While you have not advised what method or source is being used
| to copy from, I suspect that it is the image location (link) that is
| somehow(?) being copied and pasted, not a copy if the image itself.
|
| Would you be kind enough to advise how you check images pasted into an
| Impress presentation for linking to an external file? I ask, because I
| am unable to locate this function.
|
| Dave
|
| Dave:
| Edit | Links. I copy/pasted some images into Impress and it shows
links
| in this dialog. You can edit the link here or break them.
| TomW
Thanks to Lisi and Tom for your answers.
OK, I understand how you check if an image is linked. However, my
original question remains: If a copy of an image (not a link to the
location of the image) is placed on the clipboard, how can a link to
that image exist when it is pasted into a slide?
Using the Windows Clipboard as an example. When a raster image ( eg.
jpeg, png, etc) is placed (copied to) on the clipboard, it exists there
only as a bitmap (regardless of the original image format.), which
includes no information about it's original location. When Impress calls
the Windows function to recover (paste) data from the clipboard, it
finds a bitmap, which contains no information about the location of the
original image. It is even possible to completely delete the original
image and continue to repeatedly paste the clipboard bitmap copy.
Going back to my original response to Lisi:
<Q>
While you have not advised what method or source is being used
to copy from, I suspect that it is the image location (link) that is
somehow(?) being copied and pasted, not a copy if the image itself.
</Q>
The "(somehow?)" being an issue with the source software that places the
data on the clipboard, or the copy method/option being used, not in the
way that OOo interprets the data it finds on the clipboard.
If I am in error about any of the above, I would welcome any corrections
or enlightenment.
Dave
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Dave:
I am getting two different behaviors with images, depending on which OO
module I am using. In Impress, when I go to a folder, select a image
file, right click and copy, then right click and paste this file in a
slide, I get a link. If I repeat the processes with Writer, I get an
embedded image, no link.
TomW
Using OOo2.4.0rc2 on WinXP Pro SP2
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