Belzunce Agnes wrote:
Hi Jean,
As you suggested, I changed the Figure 6 (label too far, font too small).
I hope it's better now.
While redoing the Figure, I took the opportunity to change the color too
(Windows XP blue to grey), so it matches with the other first Figure.
I did the same for Figure 6 (color changed to grey).
Now all the Figures look the same.
The chapter (.odt & .pdf) with the new Figures is here:
http://oooauthors.org/Members/AgnesB/Draw/
Thanks, Agnes, for changing the screenshots in that chapter, and
relabelling Figure 6. I think the new Fig. 6 label does look
better now.
However, there was a problem with both Figures 5 and 6 in your
copy of the chapter. When I opened the ODT file, the circle in
Fig. 5 and the arrows in Fig. 6 were behind the screen captures,
not in front of them as they should be (so they are hidden). If I
fixed them to be in front, then when I saved the file and
reopened it, they were behind again.
I have found this often happens when using OOo's Drawing tools
(it must be a bug), and so I suggest that you label figures like
this in Draw, group the screenshot and the labels, and then copy
the group from Draw into Writer. The labels are okay then.
Note to everyone: If you use the drawing tools in Writer, please
make sure that you change the default Times font to Times New
Roman (or Arial, if you prefer sans serif), because Lulu will not
accept a PDF containing the "Times" font. I had to change many of
the figure labels done by other people in the Getting Started
book before I could publish the printed version.
Draw seems to use Arial as the default for text, or perhaps I
have changed the Draw default on my machine; I'm not sure. I
prefer a sans-serif font like Arial in figure labels, so that's
what I use when I am doing figures. It's your choice what to use.
I have fixed the two problem figures, recreated the PDF, and put
the files in the Draw final-published chapter.
Cheers, Jean
