Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
Regina suggested adding a section on image maps to the Calc Guide
chapter on graphics, and I had a note to myself to do the same with the
Writer Guide. AFAIK, the only book with a section on image maps is the
Impress Guide, and it doesn't say much more than the Help does.
The only context in which I have used image maps is on web pages (the
old OOoAuthors website had one as its home page), and I know how to use
Writer to creat one to use for that purpose.
However, I've never used an image map from within an OOo document. I can
see situations where I might use one from within a presentation (to jump
to other slides or other files), but I can't immediately think of how I
might use one within a spreadsheet or a text document. Can someone help
by giving me some examples of use?
My next question is about creating the hyperlinks from an image map to
another place within the same spreadsheet or text document. The Help
says: If you want to jump to a named anchor within the current document,
the address should be of the form
“file:///C/[current_document_name]#anchor_name”.
I know what an anchor is in an HTML document, but I don't know what it
would be in a spreadsheet or text document. In a spreadsheet, is the
anchor a cell reference, or a named range, or something else? Can
someone give me a specific example of an address in the form above? And
how about text (Writer) documents? And in Impress, would the "anchor
name" be a slide number, or what?
Thanks for any help you can give me. A pointer to a tutorial on this
topic would be fine for starters, if there is such a tutorial.
--Jean
Hello Jean,
I actually wrote quite a bit about the image map for the Impress guide
only to realize that at the time the feature was not working so there
was not much point in going to deep into the details.
I am not sure about examples, but if you are a creative person you could
imagine replacing the table of contents with an image where you
ctrl+click on a certain area to move to the corresponding chapter. Also
you could also create an image where each object is click-able and the
document jumps to the part of the document relevant to the clicked
object (imagine a world map, a table such as the ones found in
illustrated dictionaries...).
For your second question you answered it by yourself :-)
The only tricky thing is to discover the right name of the anchor. I
pretended to insert an hyperlink to an object in the current document
and it seems that you are limited to tables, graphics headings and
bookmarks. I though for example it could be possible to jump to a
certain page in the document, but apparently it is not (and thinking
about it I guess I understand why as in a web page there is not the
concept of pages).
As for the examples of anchors:
First chapter in the document (Heading 1)
#1.Heading 1|outline
Fourth Table in the document
#Table4|table
User-defined bookmark called "OneBookmark" (I feel creative today :-) )
#OneBookmark
If you are not in a hurry I can try to write something more for the
Impress guide and also something for the Writer guide.
Cheers,
Michele
