attachments - pdf: very cool....

[Curtis Clifton]

On Dec 28, 2004, at 12:26 PM, Paul M. Hudy wrote:

(edited to eliminate top-posting)

> --On Tuesday, December 28, 2004 1:22 PM -0500 "Paul M. Hudy" 
> <designbytes at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>> Well....there appears to be a bit troubling (read SHOW STOPPER!) on 
>> the
>> use of attachments inside Outliner Pro. Or at least very different 
>> than
>> what I expected, so perhaps someone can verify or help me out:
>>
>> I create an OO doc. I drag/drop a file name from the finder into an OO
>> line - an XLS file, for example.
>>
>> If I make any changes inside the XLS document inside of excel, the 
>> file
>> or these changes are not updated in the link inside of OO. I can open 
>> the
>> file inside of XLS and the changes are there. If I open the file via 
>> the
>> link in OO, what comes up is not the changed file, but the older 
>> version
>> with the same name.
>>
>> any thoughts?
>>
> I also find this and an odder behavior when I place the attachment via 
> the "attachment" icon in the OO toolbar. It now opens up excel but 
> have a very different and garbled file name when the file appears in 
> excel.
>

By default OO3 copies the attachment to a new file stored within the 
OO3 document bundle.  The original file and the attachment are no 
longer related, as you discovered.  Editing the attachment will not 
affect the original, and vice versa.

If you want the attachment to just point to the original, then you need 
to hold down the control key while dragging in the attachment.  I don't 
see anyway to create such a link to the original using the "attachment" 
icon.

Curt

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Curtis Clifton, PhD Candidate
Dept. of Computer Science, Iowa State University
http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~cclifton