On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Drew Jensen <drewjensen.in...@gmail.com> wrote: > Frick - daily builds and yes it says 3.5 and yes I know that is really > going to release as 4.0. >
OK. So generally speaking, when attempting to verify behavior that a user sees, I wouldn't say that the issue does not exist on the basis of testing done with unreleased code. Certainly Gary was using a released version of OpenOffice. It is possible that it worked one way in OOo 3.3.0 or AOO 3.4.x, and now works differently. -Rob > > 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 >> >>> >> >> >> >> >>
