Which program is most suitable for writing a small book with pictures in it is Writer or Impress and how do you convert a document in Writer to Impress?
And how do you lock parts of a document so it does not become a whole mess of everything if you change something like in eg MS word.
Sincerely
Morkdal
Well, that’s already three questions.
It is always better to ask the question as a single separate topic.
For some kinds of books I could recommend Impress. I once produced a cookery book with lots of (linked - not embedded) images made by pupils and a relatively little amount of written text (partly hand written, so to use as scanned images). For the reason that you only can edit one page at the same time the app does not collapse as Writer or Word would do after some time… 
Be advised that this experience is based on this project.
If text is the focus of your book Writer surely is the better choice.
Another proposal for editing a book with overloading of images could be a DTP app just like the free Scribus.
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So - without having a view on your book a good advice is hardly to give… - Cheers
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EDIT
IMHO there is no reasonable conversion - use the clipboard for copy/paste.
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For writing a book, Writer is definitely recommended.
If the book will be a bit more extensive, you should work with a master document.
Be sure to work exclusively with styles.
Professional text composition with Writer
Insert and edit images in Writer Part_1
Master documents in Writer
English documentation
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Hi a big thank you for wise advice. Then I choose to write and divide the book into different sections to make it easier to lock the document.
But how do I make it purely practical to create these chapters and eventually insert them into the master document?
Sincerely
Morkdal
Start by considering what formatting you need, e.g. for headline, text, notes, etc.
In Writer there are already many paragraph styles that you can adapt or use directly.
Only when you have created as many styles as possible in one document, take it as a document template and create your individual documents and the master document from it.
How you have to proceed to create a master document with sub-documents should be described in the link.
Please let us know if you have any detailed questions or if information is missing in the link.
Thank you
Don’t embark for master + subs unless you feel at ease with templates and styles. Styles are anyway a requirement when writing a book. But if you split your book into several sub-documents, you’ll immediately be faced with style consistency. The easiest way to solve it is to base all documents (master + subs) on the same template and to adopt a very strict style management policy (so that all document update the same after style modification).
Considering present computer performance, you should have no problem up to ~500 pages in a single document, even with pictures. And pictures should be governed by frame styles to facilitate repetitive layout. But frame styles are quite difficult to master if you’re not familiar with them.
To summarise,
- small book : no need for master + subs, except if the number of pictures is so huge that it impacts rendering speed
- be “fluent” in styles and, I insist, all style categories, including frame styles when you have many pictures
- as always, avoid direct formatting
- in case you create several similar books, consider using templates to give them all the same look and feel and be able to change appearance in a snap
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