On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Drew Jensen <drewjensen.in...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well, looks like it is not so easy to say that is wrong. > > Tried this again, except instead of using Linux, using AOO 3.5 on Windows > and IE for the browser. >
There is no AOO 3.5. What exactly are you running? It should be listed in the Help/About box. > With writer it just craps out and you get nothing usable. But with draw, > yes the image is linked not embedded and I am absolutely sure I did a copy > (image) not copy (address). > > //drew > > > On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Drew Jensen <drewjensen.in...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> 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 >>> >> >>
