Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 24180
Word Document graphics are not displaying or printing
Last modified: 2017-05-20 11:22:12 UTC
We have some training manuals created in Word 2000. Print screens were used in the document. We recently switched to OpenOffice, and it will not display the graphics. When you have the document open, their is a border showing where the graphic is. You can click on it and the resizing squares show as well as an anchor icon, but the image doesn't display. If you right click inside the border, the menu that pops up doesn't have the graphics option. Also, the menu has open at the bottom, if you click that, the windows paint program opens with the image showing. The person who made the manuals said he used paint to do the cropping. Another thing... When we make a new document and hit print screen and then use Edit - Paste to put the image in, the right click menu for the graphic will have Graphics as an option. But, the Edit and Open options, which we get on the bottom of the menu for the graphics causing the problem, are gone. Its almost like OpenOffice is treating them as something different than a graphic. We get the same results of our graphics not showing when we try to print as well. I checked the Options button in the print window, and everything in the first column is checked except Black. Checking Black didn't help. We tried exporting to PDF, and the graphics show up, but not in the correct spot and they are blocking the words. The Arrange option doesn't seem to have any effect at all. We did a right click and chose Object, and then chose the Wrap tab and changed those setting, but it didn't do anything either. Any help would be greatly appreciated. There are probably 20 or 30 manuals and some of the are 20 or 30 pages with graphics through out. If you need examples, let me know how to get them to you. Thanks, I know this is a long message. Hope it makes sense.
Created attachment 12319 [details] Page 15 of a manual
reassigned to mru
These graphics all have "contour wrap". Turning off this in the graphics properties will make them visible. As long as contour wrap works slightly different in MS Word and OO Writer, it can lead to such problems. OO 2.0 will be able to read the contour wrap correctly from MS Word files. The current OO 2.0 snapshot 680m17 may already have this implemented (not sure) but the next one of course.
Verified fix with internal OO 2.0 build.
Re-open to reassign
MRU-MM: Custom does not seem to be implemented (See issue 17474) for OLE objects. Do you see a chance to do this for OO 2.0?
mmaher->flr: Yours I think
assigning to hbrinkm
Reset assigne to the default "issues@openoffice.apache.org".