Frick - daily builds and yes it says 3.5 and yes I know that is really going to release as 4.0.
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: > 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 > >>> > >> > >> >
