Re: [libreoffice-users] Weird situation with LO Writer

Coincidentally, I was looking for something else at the weekend, and 
came across some notes from about 5 years ago when I got a 30MB 
presentation down to 6MB by doing that. Had completely forgotten about 
it. That was with quite an old version of OpenOffice, and I may not have 
inserted the files properly in the first place (not sure if I was aware 
of the difference between copy/pasting and insert from file myself back 
then!) Was going to suggest it as a workaround in case it was worth the 
effort to you, but looks like you've already found the same trick ;o)

It would be interesting to know what triggers the different behaviour. 
That some are kept as JPEG while others are converted to PNG is even 
more strange than if they were all converted to PNG when set as a 
frame's background...


Ra wrote:
> Hello,
>
> True, I don't insert the images as pictures like you would expect, but I
> didn't think that would make a difference since all the images are still
> coming from a local disk, so therefore LO knows the format very well and
> should be able to preserve it.
>
> Why am I using frames with images as backgrounds instead of pictures? I
> don't know really. I needed an image to accompany a chunk of text, this
> seemed like a good idea at the time. It's kinda too late to change it now,
> there are already over a hundred such frames... I might try to change it at
> some later point but for now I'd like to stick with what I have.
>
> I did not try inserting images any other way so I don't know how it would
> behave. (I also don't understand what do you mean by "extending the
> palette".) I did however do a little experiment. Since ODTs are just ZIP
> archives, I opened my document with an archiver tool and extracted the
> contents to a temporary directory. Then I converted all the PNGs to JPGs
> with the same name, updated the relevant index files accordingly
> (content.xml, META-INF/manifest.xml), and archived it back as ZIP. Then I
> renamed the ZIP to ODT and tried opening it in Writer, and voila, it
> worked! All the images are still there and visible, I didn't see any
> problems. I then saved it under a different name and checked the resulting
> ODT, all the stored images were still in JPEG format. So I guess this kinda
> solves my problem for now, although I would still like to know how and why
> it happened to begin with. I need to do more editing on the document which
> means a lot more saving, so I'll keep an eye on what LO does with these
> JPEGs in the future.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 10:55 PM, Regina Henschel <rb.henschel@t-online.de>wrote:
>
> > Hi Ra,
> >
> > Ra schrieb:
> >
> >   I never insert images as pictures. The JPEG images are only ever used as
> > > backgrounds for frames. I also never open the JPEGs in any picture editing
> > > application and copypaste from there, the images are only ever used as
> > > files from disk.
> > >
> > > What I'm doing is precisely this:
> > >
> > > File > Insert > Frame... > OK
> > >
> > >
> > > Then
> > >
> > > [right click on the frame created] > Frame... > Background > As: Graphic >
> > > Browse... > [select the JPEG file from disk] > Type: Area > OK
> >
> > I think, that is the point. You do not insert the image directly, but use
> > it as background image.
> >
> > If you insert the image directly, it should stay in JPEG format.
> >
> > Have you tried, whether other ways to make it a background (e.g. extending
> > the palette) results in png too?
> >
> > Why do you try to make it a background of the frame?
> >
> > Kind regards
> > Regina
> >
> >
> > --
> > To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscribe@global.libreoffice.org
> > Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-
> > unsubscribe/
> > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette
> > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/
> > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be
> > deleted

--
To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscribe@global.libreoffice.org
Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/
Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette
List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/
All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted