Alright Rob. back to the issue - it appears to be platform specific.
Checking again, w/ AOO (daily), under windows and using Chrome there is one difference. Copy/Paste to a writer document works - and it is linked, unless you select copy special and then select bitmap. Otherwise - I'll check the issue tracker about the win/ie/writer problem I ran into and if it is not noted yet ad a issue. Best wishes, //drew On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 10:25 AM, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: > 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 > >> >>> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >
