Just read the article. The article does not sound correct, if memory serves, checked using AOO 3.5.
Sure enough, copy an image from a web site and paste into a writer document, the document has an embedded image, as I thought. My guess is that the author did not copy the image, he copied the location - common mistake. As for AOO, hard to expect it not to do what the user told it to do. Finally, checking for external links - isn't there already an extension that does that, I know there was lots of talk about creating one ... didn't find it with a quick search however. Ciao, //drew On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 8:49 AM, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: > Have you seen this: > http://fileformats.wordpress.com/2012/12/30/openoffice/ ??? > > (I'm cc'ing the author of that blog post, Gary McGrath) > > This is from the perspective of a person interested in long-term > preservation/archiving of documents. > > This looks like a feature that is working "as designed", although it > does obscure the fact that the image is linked, not embedded in this > case. > > It might be worth having a web page, or a document, about best > practices for creating documents in OpenOffice that are free of such > external dependencies. Could probably also use the ODF Toolkit to > scan documents to identify such issues in a document. > > Regards, > > -Rob >
