[odf-discuss] Sun's ODF plug-in for MSO - more info on graphics display problem

[Jean Hollis Weber]

Earlier, I wrote:
> > Unfortunately, however -- although it displays the text
> > portions of a test ODT file (created by OOo 2.2.1) just fine,
> > all of the graphics enclosed in frames ... give an "Error!
> > Reference source not found" message.
> 
> For comparison, I opened the same ODT file in OOo and saved it as a 
> MSWord document, then opened the .doc file in Word 2000. The frames 
> containing the graphics and their captions were there, but they had 
> jumped all over the page (despite being anchored in their own 
> paragraphs). This problem had been reported on OOoAuthors a few days 
> ago, but I had not yet followed up. It's looking like there is some 
> major problem with OOo, or at least with the way I have been inserting 
> and anchoring graphics. :-( Time for some more testing, and checking bug 
> reports.

The good news is that OOo2.3 (currently in developers' builds: I 
tested m218) appears to have fixed the problem I described above 
for saving from OOo to .doc: the anchored frames behave as they 
should when the file is opened in Word. Therefore I hope the fix 
will soon find its way into the next release of Sun's plug-in for 
MS Office.

--Jean