Bug 97441

Summary: Consider converting images out of .wmf format when documents converted from doc to docx
Product: LibreOffice Reporter: Alex <axfelix>
Component: LibreOfficeAssignee: Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX    
Severity: enhancement CC: aron.budea, xiscofauli
Priority: medium Keywords: filter:doc, filter:docx, needsDevAdvice
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
Whiteboard: interoperability
Crash report or crash signature: Regression By:

Description Alex 2016-01-29 19:05:10 UTC 
LibreOffice Writer seems to retain embedded images in .wmf format by default when going from .doc to .docx. However, libwmf is unmaintained these days, leading to issue opening them in imagemagick, and often necessitating a second LibreOffice call to convert the .wmf images (leading to listener headaches, because LibreOffice's code base appears not to use libwmf and actually works, albeit with a lot more overhead than imagemagick) when trying to script this all headlessly.

I'm not sure if it technically violates the .docx standard but it might not be a bad idea to just transform them all to .png by default when the document itself is converted in order to avoid this.
Comment 1 Xisco Faulí 2017-12-13 10:01:40 UTC 
I guess the issue is in imagemagick and not in LibreOffice. Besides, we don't plan to convert images to .png as export time as it might bring other downsides.
Closing as RESOLVED WONTFIX