Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
I have a few complaints on how figures are embedded in OOo Authors
documentation. As a reminder, this is how I expect to do it (In case it
is all me).
* Insert the image
* Anchor the image as a character
* Insert a caption
* Frame is anchored as character with an appropriate paragraph style.
* Set the caption to an appropriate paragraph style.
The end result is that I have a frame, which I then center containing
the figure.
The frame is the same size as the figure.
The caption is contained in the frame left justified under the figure.
My complaints:
1. The figures do not export well to the MS Office DOC format. The
figures end up floating around. In other words, there is a bug in OOo.
We should probably submit an example document and request that this be
corrected in OOo.
2. There is a bug in OOo that sometimes barfs on exactly the wrong
combination. The document loads but if you attempt to view the page with
the image, OOo Locks. After receiving the changes, I had to unzip the
document, manually sift through the XML, find, and remove the frame with
the caption.
3. If the figure is narrow and the caption is long, the caption wraps.
Not strictly true as there is a simple avoidance, simply ensure that the
containing frame is sufficiently wide and insert an empty, dummy paragraph in
front of the caption which then appears below the image and is as wide as the frame.
No argument with your general points, though. I often think that the positioning
of images and frames depends upon magic :-)
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Peter HB
