Hello,

I recently have been copying a few articles from my friends website. Now the pages have text along with graphics. Now on Microsoft office, when I would select the text and picture, and then paste it into a document and both the test and the picture would be saved for further viewing even offline. Now I can do the same thing in Open Office, but instead of saving and embedding the picture into the document it simply gives a link to the website or place the picture is saved on the hard drive. I want to make it so that it actually inserts the picture in the document when I copy and paste, and doesn't link to the site or hard drive. How can I get open office to do this?

Thanks
Christof

I just tried this on Open Office Writer V2.3 using Suse Linux and you are corect, the page is saved as html with links back to the web page.

One solution is to use firefox browser, navigate to your website and save the page. The page and all its associated images will be saved in a folder in your download location.
HTH

With any browser, you can typically right-click on and save it. Then, put into OOo using the "insert" function.

When you select a section of website, all you get is the links. Apparently, MS Word gets the pictures from the links???

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Hi, I realize this thread is over two years old, but since I got here via google search having the same problem, I figured I might not be the only one and the solution I found just a couple of minutes ago might actually help somebody else who stumbles upon this thread.

So, here it goes:
When you paste the content of a webpage (text and images) into oo writer, wait for all the images to load, then go to:

Edit - Links...,

select all the links listed there and click the "Break Link" button. Give it a few seconds, and all the links should be gone, the pictures should now be embedded in the Word document, the way it's supposed to be IMHO. Don't forget to save the changes you've just made.

Next time you open it, you won't have to wait for the images to load, starring at a white box with red borders and a hyperlink in it until it loads...
I went as far as to check internet traffic with wireshark before and after breaking the links in the document.

Before breaking the links, there were packets sent to my DNS server to resolve that hyperlink showing up in the above mentioned blank box where the image should be, and lots of packets while the images in the document were downloading... Apparently, this happens every time I open any oowriter document containing images...

After breaking the links, there was no traffic whatsoever...:-D Finally... I've been looking for a solution like this for months...


Hope this helps someone else...
Cheers!

Oh, boy, does it. Thanks so much, Qwertz333, if you're still there. I was already researching other alternatives to MS Office (some interesting options) but there's nothing like when plan A finally works.

I found it strangely hard to give Google a description of the problem it could recognize. All search results were for online photo storage, repairing jpegs or whatever but not ARCHIVING DIGITAL IMAGES ON HD via freeware. Some pages recommended Picasa which I always found clunky or (for instance) XnView which some reviewers say gives you malware. There used to be tons of utilities for this, guess most people use the cloud now.

I was seeking help with Open Office, simply because its the simplest option at hand so far. Have tried Wordpad which is pleasantly free of page breaks, but I can't get page formatting to stick very long in it. Am Googling that one now, but if anybody can advise, please do. Neither Wordpad Help nor a webpage called "How to Use the New WordPad in Windows 7" in the Dummies site even mentions page formatting.

Mayday ... mayday ... I spoke too soon. Was working in the same file up through yesterday, but going there today all the photos are gone except the last 15 or so that I added. The ghostly outline of the others remain, but totally empty. I did everything it normally takes to get things back to normal -- CCleaner, Diskmax, Malwarebytes, reboot. No use so far.

Thoughts, anyone? Anybody finds a solution, I can make it worth their while. Help! I didn't back any up -- have to start doing so more often.

Hi, for reference I have attached a link to the Apache Open Office doco where you can download the specific chapter for graphics.

https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Doc...Guide_Chapters

I have also included a link to the LibreOffice doco page where you can download a (big) PDF manual.

https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/documentation/

The issues raised here should be addressed in chapter 8 "Working With Graphics". This chapter also provides plenty more info in case there are any other queries.

HTH






Cheers

I tried to do it the right way, but some technical glitch occurred.

I don't know why this should be a trial Don't any over these free word processors allow you to paste photos and leave them there, even offline? Until this crisis, that was how it was everywhere in my experience -- Paint, body of an email, whatever. Wordpad, quasi-free, seems nice and stable but it's the same deal as Open Office -- the pics aren't yours unless you're online. I can understand webmasters not wanting people to steal copyright material, but this policy cuts out oceans of free stuff too.

My efforts at learning how keep an aspect ratio while resizing a pic were similarly byzantine. But you've got me into LibreOffice (never heard of it) which says to hold shift while pulling a corner -- seems to work in AOO too.

Thank you so much, timl, but wouldn't you agree that something's wrong if one has to download a manual or chapter to do these simple tasks. Page 8 in the AOO book merely gives the advice qwertz333 did above re de-linking pics. Not surprisingly, LO has exact same issue as AOO.

The ideal would be to set these defaults for a whole program. Wonder how.