Michele wrote:
To date, my primary problem with figures in frames has been:
1. Bug in OOo that can in some cases cause a document to crash OOo when the
page containing the figure is rendered. The bug has not yet been fixed. I
had to manually edit the XML from a long document after isolating the
section with the problem. I lost a few pages in the process. Specifically,
the problem was tracked to a layout loop for "as-character anchored caption
frame containing single-line
paragraph and at-paragraph anchored graphic, which is vertical positioned
center to the single-line paragraph." This is very similar to the OOo
Authors format. If anyone opts to perform a "vertical positioned center",
you will possibly lose the document.
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=72077
oops... I had quite a number of crashes trying to insert a caption and
indeed it seems that I came across the bug you reported. Unfortunately
I read your email after I reported issue 90641 so I have now added an
hint to check if my issue is a duplicate.
I have to say however that DEV300m17 does a decent job in recovering
the document after the crash.
It is possible to create the document with these characteristics, save
it, and then not be able to open it again. It is a good thing that it
did not persist your changes WITH the "bad" graphic, because then there
would be no saving it.
2. Problems exporting documents to Word format. I have no idea if this has
been fixed or not.
Not sure, but I would agree with Jean that exporting to Word should be
considered a secondary priority compared to making it easier to write
and paginate the user guides.
Does jean consider this a primary issue? I just consider it an issue and
will NOT use this for anything that requires that I need to give to an
MS Office user as a DOC file.
Regardless of what you decide, I may be able to write some macros that do
things such as verify consistency. You know, what paragraph style was used
for the figure, how is the figure anchored, what is the spacing around the
figure, etc...
That would be great.
When the format is finalized, if I am given the "specifications", I can
see what I can do. If you have ideas for what you want/desire, let me know.
- How do you want figures anchored?
- Do you want specific spacing around the image?
- if anchored as character, should a specific paragraph style be used?
- Should I find figure captions and force the correct paragraph style?
How do I know that it is a caption? I can find paragraphs containing the
figure fields, by the way, but should I only care about items that start
with "Figure <figure + 1>..."
- Should the frame contain one paragraph or two? Default appears to be
one paragraph with the figure embedded in front of the caption text.
My preference is to keep the frames
notwithstanding all the defects mentioned above.
Then you should state the reasons that you prefer this. Let me get you
started:
1. Better WIKI support.
2. Allows for the text to flow around the frame, and this is more
important with the new multi-column landscape format.
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Andrew Pitonyak
My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt
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