(unintended private email, again... -_-) W dniu 23 października 2009 21:37 użytkownik Steren <steren.giannini@...400...> napisał:

2009/10/23 Krzysztof Kosiński <tweenk.pl@...400...>

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When you paste an image into a Word / ODT file, it is not a link to that file on your hard disk.

Actually, OpenOffice.org is sometimes using Links, I'm not an expert but I used it in the past. Try out with OpenOffice.org :

• Create a document
• Insert > Picture > From File
• in the dialog, select an image and tick "Link", then  Open

A dialogpops-up asking you If you are sure you want to link it. See capture attached to this email. You can choose to ask again when you will be linking your next image or you can say "I know what I am doing" by ticking something.

That's the point - when you are making a link, you are explicitly saying this. The default is to embed, and to get links you have to explicitly want them. I don't want to remove the possibility of creating links. I just want to make embedding the default, so there is less confusion by broken documents, and provide different explicit commands for linking.

Then you can edit these Links with Edit > Links. This opens a window that inspired me for the "Image Links Manager" proposal.

So this leads us to say that we are not the only one having issues for an understandable-by-everyone linking strategy.

The OpenOffice strategy is reasonable. You only end up with broken documents if you explicitly want it. The default is to embed, but you can create a link if you want. We need to recognise that the concept of creating a link is different from the concept of pasting or inserting, and should be given different commands.

Regards, Krzysztof.