Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 40883
Gallery objects as links from own themes do not work as described.
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:37:42 UTC
There appears to be no way of allowing ones own Gallery OpenOffice Draw objects to be links, yet external formats work fine. To reproduce, 1) Start OpenOffice 2) Tools > Gallery 3) In Gallery, Click "New Theme..." 4) Enter Theme Name "Example Theme" 5) In the drawing area import a PNG (or other bitmapped) graphic. Insert > Graphics 6) Click on graphic, hold button down until cursor changes to a rectangle 7) Drag graphic to Gallery theme "Example Theme", Title bar of Gallery will state "Example Theme - dd<number> (<path>/dd<number>.png)" 8) Delete PNG from main document 9) Draw a rectangle. 10) Add this to the Gallery as in step 7), the Gallery title will read "Example Theme - dd<number>", note. No file name associated 11) Delete rectangle from document 12) Click on the PNG in the gallery. 13) Hold Ctrl+Shift, cursor changes to a Shortcut symbol. Drag to main drawing area. 14) Click Edit > Links 15) Link to PNG will be shown. 16) Repeat for the rectangle 17) Click Edit > Links There is no associated link for the rectangle. It appears that one cannot link external Draw objects in Draw!!! This is a real pain if, say one wishes to provide a set of standard symbols for inclusion in a document and modify them all. 8)
The difference between the older (1.1.2) and the current version is: at the moment OOo does not show a path for an inserted ( drag and drop) picture in a gallery theme. A path is shown if the picture is added to the theme using right click/properties/files/find files/add. This differentiation makes no sense in my opinion. @ejgrace: if I understand you right you want to ship a theme of self-designed objects to another user. Is that correct? That would be more an enhancement, not a defect. For the path problem I have filed issue i41070. This one here would become an enhancement If I understood you right . Thanks.
> if I understand you right you want to ship a theme of self-designed > objects to another user. Is that correct? Not quite, though that is a realated topic and would be useful. 1) My point is more that when an oodraw gallery object is inserted as a link, the link is not honoured, instead the object is physically *copied* into the document that is being edited. 2) On the other hand, if the gallery object is an image and it is inserted as a link, the fact it is a link *is* honoured. This means that if I then change the underlying gallery source image, all the source images derived from this in the document being edited can change. The help pages say you can insert gallery objects as links, so I would expect to be able to do (2) for oodraw objects as well. The motivation behind me wanting to do this came from drafting a flowchart. The idea for this is one can draft up the structure of an image, then when one has time, work on perfecting the objects. Subsequently all the objects change to the new versions since they are actually links in the document rather than copies. -ed
defect -> enhancement
Reassigned.
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