| Summary: | Batch convert objects to pictures in writer documents | ||
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| Product: | LibreOffice | Reporter: | andis.lazdins |
| Component: | Writer | Assignee: | Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs> |
| Status: | NEW --- | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | enhancement | ||
| Priority: | medium | CC: | andis.lazdins |
| Version: | Inherited From OOo | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | All | ||
| See Also: | https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51550 | ||
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| i915 platform: | i915 features: | ||
To be clear this enhancement request seems to be requesting a macro to batch export "charts, formulas and other objects" that have been inserted into a Writer document. This can currently be done only rather crudely via File > Save As... > selecting File Type of "HTML Document (Writer)" which produces a series of GIFs. Status set to NEW. Version set to Inherited from OOo. Seems like Bug 51550? It was about problem with saving OLE objects, and the bug was closed as fixed because those objects are now not lost, but now they can be saved only as images. Also, from Bug 49229 we can see that equations are now properly saved (except layout issue related to wrap settings). Since this bug is rather old, and unlikely to draw any attention as per this general problem description, I suggest it be changed to "FILESAVE as DOCX saves embedded OLE objects as pictures", so that development can continue here. Things are really changed since posting of the original report. I would say that conversion of formulas is nearly excellent, but for charts and drawings the easiest way would be to have original chart or drawing stored and pictures visible in the doc or docx version of the document. Original would be good, if the document is opened and edited in the libreoffice. It could be also batch conversion macro to run by user. |
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The biggest compatibility problem for me in Libreoffice writer is export of charts, formulas and other objects, when saving documents in Microsoft word copatible formats like doc or docx. The objects are not visible in word or they are destroyed, or thay cannot be copied to other word documents, even if they are visible (because libreoffice or openoffice.org is installed on host machine). Conversion of every single chart into picture is time consuming, therefore macro command, that can do it at once (batch conversion) would be very welcome. There is simple macro for word to convert all objects into pictures. Probably it can be converted into Libreoffice macro code to do the same job: Sub ConvertOLEObjectsToPicture() Dim Item As InlineShape For Each Item In ActiveDocument.InlineShapes Select Case Item.Type Case wdInlineShapeEmbeddedOLEObject, wdInlineShapeLinkedOLEObject Item.Select With Selection .CopyAsPicture .Delete .PasteSpecial DataType:=wdPasteMetafilePicture '.ShapeRange.WrapFormat.Type = wdWrapTopBottom End With End Select Next End Sub Origin: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2010-customize/how-to-convert-all-embedded-objects-in-word-to/d0b50e67-ef56-4392-8da0-9bf589dc711a Bad thing in this macro is that it do not follows to original anchoring rules, so anyway all converted objects should be anchored separately. It would be reasonable to have this macro separately, probably as extension, to be able to use in in openoffice 2.4, because all libre and open office versions after 3 has fatal regression in exporting complex tables, therefore 2.4 has to be used to export documents to word compatible format.