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Dark pictures in ODT document from LibreOffice

I'm trying out the Office 365 product and am potentially looking to buy a subscription because I'm fed up of LibreOffice keep freezing.

I've got a big .odt document that was written in LibreOffice that contains many pictures. When I open this document in Word, most of the formatting is fine, but all the pictures appear darkened. Any idea why this is? The pictures are all colour and embedded in the document. I can save in Word and re-open in LibreOffice and the pictures then show up just fine. I can also re-import a picture from the same file and it shows up just fine.

Any ideas how I can fix this?

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  • What is the format of the file (.DOC or .DOCX)?
  • What happens when you insert the same image in the Word?

Try inserting the same image in the Word and check the results.

 

Reply with the results to assist you further.

 

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The format of the document is .odt as stated above.
When I delete and re-insert the image it works fine (again as stated above), but I don't want to do that for hundreds of images.

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Hi,

 

Thank you for replying.

 

As it works fine when you insert the images into the Word, then you may have to use the same method to get the good quality images in the Word.

 

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That's no good I don't have time to replace 100's of images. I'll just go back to using OpenOffice.

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Hey Bucko,

I agree that suggestion above was not "optimal".

I had the same problem and this fixed it.

1. Re-Open the ODF/ODT file in Libre Office
2. Save as a Word 2003 doc (.DOC not .DOCX)
3. Open in Office 2013 and no more dark images.

NOTE: I tried .DOCX and Word 2013 just kept hanging. .DOC was peachy.

If you don't have Libre handy Bucko, I'll convert it for you if you send it to me. JUST FOR YOU THOUGH, ONE TIME OFFER.

Send to *** Email address is removed for privacy ***

Chris.

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Very kind offer but I've already cancelled Office 365 and switched back to OpenOffice, no problems with their latest build. Still at least this is solved for other folks.

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Is this likely to be addressed?  Can someone verify if the pictures will print darker?
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Yes, the pictures also print darker (significantly)

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As it works fine when you insert the images into the Word, then you may have to use the same method to get the good quality images in the Word.

The problem is: the luminance info is not correctly read by Word 2013.

Luminance is correctly described as a signed percentage from -100% to +100%
with default 0 in:
http://books.evc-cit.info/odbook/book.html

But Word seem to think it's between 0 and 100, so my picture with a luminance of 0 is changed at -50 when opened in Word!

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The problem is well determined but no practical solution in the interface, so I went ahead and wrote this code to fix all my pictures

Public Sub CorrectAllPicsBrightness()
  Dim sld As Slide
  Dim i As Long
  For Each sld In ActivePresentation.Slides
   For i = sld.Shapes.Count To 1 Step -1
     If sld.Shapes(i).Type = msoPicture Then
       sld.Shapes(i).PictureFormat.Brightness = 0.5  'magic number after some trials.
     End If
   Next
  Next
End Sub

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