Images disappeared in Writer

[NikolayLibre]

Hello, ladies and gentlemen ! I could not find any help or suggestions in russian forum that’s why i’m writing here. Sorry, if i’ll make some mistakes, i speak english not very well Smile There is a big trouble, i’m working in the LibreOffice Writer ( 5.0.5.2 ID : 55b006a02d247b5f7215fc6ea0fde844b30035b3) and of course sometimes paste images on pages (especially use Snipping Tool, windows 7). Everytime when i’m working in Writer all images disappear (“Reading Error”). Well, i don’t understand how this may be. After this error the size of file decreased like if i deleated images. Please help

Hey, i suppose i found similar topics - and it’ not solved http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.libreoffice.bugs/323902
Images disappeared again today (View topic) • Apache OpenOffice Community Forum

[PaulRoos]

Hi, I have the same problem. There are two things I do, but they are not a 100% solution (it works many times, but not always). (1) The network could be slow, and then you have wait say 1 minute. (2) If the image is still missing: you right-mouse-click on the area where the “Reading Error” shows; then select “Anchor” on the drop-down menu; and then select “Anchor to paragraph”, the picture appears. (anchoring to paragraph, resizes the picture to fit in the boundaries of the document).

[mikekaganski]

What is your LO version btw? There was some significant rework related to image handling aimed to make it more robust lately.

[PaulRoos]

Mike, The details (I still have the problem appearing some times): Version: 6.0.3.2 (x64) Build ID: 8f48d515416608e3a835360314dac7e47fd0b821 OS: Windows 10.0; Locale: af-ZA
You can also try the following two things:
(1) Copy the image at the source and paste it in the Writer document as Bitmap or svg image (Anchor the image to paragraph). (2) Right-mouse-click on the area where the image gives the “Reading Error”: Then in the drop-down menu, I select “Arrange” and then select “Bring to front”.

[mikekaganski]

The changes were in version 6.1 - so you might try to upgrade to 6.1 or 6.2 and check if this makes a difference or not.

[PaulRoos]

I’ll try. I usually do upgrades at night, or when I am busy with something else, on another computer. Thanks.