[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 58518] FILEOPEN: Missing Error Message, if you Try to Insert a Picture with “Insert > File...“

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58518

--- Comment #15 from Julien Nabet <serval2412 at yahoo.fr> ---
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #14)
> You tell the user that Insert > File > (png) cannot converted to text ("File
> can't be converted to text"). This sounds a bit weird to me as I wouldn't
> expect such function. How about something like "Only odt, doc, txt files can
> be inserted". And since the command is now "Insert text from file..." a
> simple "This is not a text document" might also work.
I think "This is not a text document" would be better since the text format
files may be quite long, here we could at least add "docx" but perhaps also
others.

> 
> Btw, loading a PDF returns "Read error\nError reading file.", which is
> tech-talk. Either loading PDF as text is possible (and the actual reason is
> given why it fails) or the error message above applies as well.

Indeed, I'll take a look.

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