No images in html files

[Doug Allaire]

This is just plain weird. It NOT a relative/absolute link problem. It
is NOT a "placeholder" problem.

An html file is made in Dreamweaver. When it is opened in Word X the
image tags are stripped out.

This happens on different computers and when the file is on CD, zip,
or hard drive. It does not happen in Word in OS-9, nor in Word for
Windows.

Original HTML:
<p><font size="4" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times,
serif"><strong>-District Logos-</strong></font></p>
<p><img src="common_files/images/banner.gif" alt="Document Banner"
width="350" height="30" />
<br />
<img src="common_files/images/space.gif" alt=" " width="12"
height="6" />
<br />

HTML after opening in Word:
<p><strong><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Georgia'>
-District Logos-</span></strong></p>
<p><br>
<br>

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Doug

 

[Andreas Prilop]

Original HTML:
[ ... ]
HTML after opening in Word:
[ ... ]

If you think you could edit your HTML files with MS Word, I'd say:
You deserve it!

 

[Jim Gordon]

Hi Doug,

My take on Word's HTML capabilities is that the intent is to allow Word to
save a Word document as a web page so that web browsers can display the
document as closely as possible to the way it originally looked in Word.

The ability to open web pages in Word gives Word the ability to "round-trip"
Word documents. By that I mean if someone saved a Word document as a web
page, then Word can open that page and restore the document as it was before
it had been saved as HTML.

The VIEW SOURCE option lets you get at the HTML, and yes you can edit it.
But Word wants to make Word documents. It's not really a good way to edit
ordinary web pages or pages made by other code generating tools such as
DreamWeaver or GoLive.

If you are looking for a manual way to edit HTML Netscape Composer and
Mozilla are two excellent programs for this purpose.

As time passes it will become increasingly difficult to manually edit
machine generated code due to the complexities of XML, DHTML, etc.

-Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

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