RTF and Open Office

[upsidedown]

Hi all,
I'm using OpenOffice for all my documentations.

The problem is that OpenOffice is not including images from the RTF files generated by EA.

Is there a solution for this problem ?

Thanks

Juergen

[jkaczor]

When you generate RTF documentation from within EA, you have the choice of setting the image type to:

-EMF
-WMF
-GIF
-JPG
-PNG
-Bitmap

First step, I would try both EMF, or WMF first - as they are scalable.

Next, my question to you, if one or the other still does not work, are ANY of these types showing up in your RTF document in OpenOffice?  Do any show up in Word?

I a similar problem here (and we ALL use Word), I would perform a documentation export, and it would appear correct on my machine - I'd email the RTF to my team - no images...  

Well, there is a checkbox option - lower right-hand corner of the settings dialog, titled: "Embed Diagrams in Document".  I had it off  , and of course, when I emailed the RTF, I forgot the individual files.

That fixed my problem, however I do not know how OpenOffice would handle that setting, you have to try it yourself.

[upsidedown]

It works with WMF.

I always embed diagrams.

Thanks for this hint

[vidafo]

Hello Juergen

I'm evaluating EA  and using OpenOffice as well . One problem is, you have to leave the Option "Embed Diagramms in Document" unchecked.
Next  EMF doesn't work. Choose WMF, JPG or BMP. I prefere JPG.
Third and this is a real problem, you have to correct the images path for each image in the document.

EA generates somthing like ...../Images//EAID_.... the problem here is  the two slashes after Images. It shuld be:

/Images/EAID

With these changes it is possible to have diagramms showing up in OpenOffice RTF documents.

Daniele

[upsidedown]

Hello Daniele.

I'm now using EA with OpenOffice with the folowing settings :

- option "embed diagrams in document" checked
- Diagram format : WMF

This works fine.

Jürgen

[vidafo]

Hello Jürgen

Could you please tell me which version of EA and OpenOffice do you use?

I'm using OpenOffice 1.0.1 and EA  3.6  which causes this Path error I mentioned in my prior posting. ( ...../Images//EAID_.... ).

Thank you.
Daniele