libre office needs to have the pages document as a zip package. If you try to open the extracted folder it goes down into the folder in the opening process and looks for a single file document.
As I said before, the only way to even transfer a pages document from one computer to another is by creating a zip file first.
Pages as well as libre office open the zip file directly and treat it like the actual document.
I am still saying that something in the PureOS version of libre office is malfunctioning to keep the images from being displayed in the document.
But at the same time libre office does know which image needs to go where. I can right-click on the place holder of each image and look at its properties, like I did above, and there is the preview of the correct image, that needs to go there.
If libre office knows which image goes where in the document, it has all the information it needs, it just does not execute displaying it.
I’m not familiar with .pages documents, but did you try to open this file under LibreOffice by renaming it to P7100-injection-pump.pages.zip or even by just renaming it to P7100-injection-pump.pages (removing .zip extention)? I’m learning from you here as well.
Are those two questions (same ones, just solutions differ) relevant to your issue here: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/126903/how-can-i-upgrade-all-my-pages-09-documents-to-pages-13 and https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/150771/how-do-i-convert-old-pages-documents-to-pages-13?
We’re going more and more advanced because nobody seems to have considered whether the problem might be simple. Have you checked the LibreOffice Writer Options to see if images are actually enabled? This can be found by opening up LibreOffice Writer and selecting Tools > Options >LibreOffice Writer > View from the Menu Bar. Obviously, you’re going to want the “Images and objects” box selected as seen here in this screenshot:
Jack,
Thank you so much. I knew for a while, it had to be something within Libre Office, but had no idea where to look.
The images show up in my documents now.
No problem. Sometimes, the solutions to the most complicated problems are the simplest ones that first come to mind.
Unfortunately, that would be very difficult to answer due to the fact that very few people outside of the Apple ecosystem would ever use Apple formats, let alone .pages. You might be able to get more help from the official LibreOffice forums. Might I suggest you start a thread there?
Jack,
I did try to create a zip file of the pages directory using the PureOS file manager. Then I tried opening the zip file with Libre Office and it did work. It seemed like Libre Office treated my PureOS zip file no different than the iOS zip file.
Yes. This is because .zip files use standardized algorithms such as Deflate, Deflate64, LZMA, etc. This means that zip files can be created and extracted across multiple platforms including Microsoft Windows, MacOS/iOS, and Linux. In other words, you can create a .zip file on any of these operating systems, and open said zip file on any of these operating systems. It’s almost universal.
I think I may have misunderstood your original question. Sorry about that.
Have you checked the LibreOffice Writer Options to see if images are actually enabled? This can be found by opening up LibreOffice Writer and selecting Tools > Options >LibreOffice Writer > View from the Menu Bar. Obviously, you’re going to want the “Images and objects” box selected as seen here in this screenshot:
