+1 2011/6/10 Charles Jenkins <cejperso...@tec-usa.com>: > Hi, everyone! I'm new here. I have a feedback to offer, and I was told > this is the place to do it. > > In my day job as an engineer, I currently use Microsoft Word to write > technical documentation which includes screenshot images. I'd like to > break the Word habit. > > I understand that when creating publications like newsletters, some > people may need to place graphics in a particular spot on the page and > have text flow around it. However, I think most business and casual > users -- and certainly someone like myself who produces technical > documentation -- need to have the graphics flow along with the text. > > In other words, we need the graphics to be anchored as a character. I > know LibreOffice can do this, but it is not the default behavior, and to > fix it after inserting a picture involves a lot of work: The initial > paste is almost guaranteed to put the anchor in the wrong place, and > even after moving it, you typically have to go into the Picture dialog > box to fix Position attributes. > > Microsoft Word and the Macintosh word processors I'm familiar with > insert pictures anchored as a character by default. Though many other > things are disastrously wrong with Microsoft Word, I have to admit that > they do picture insertion just right. With LibreOffice, adding a > screenshot is quite a frustrating battle for me. > > If "Insert Pictures Anchored as Characters" were only an option turned > ON by default, LibreOffice would be much more usable for me, and I > suspect many others, at work. > PRIVILEGED AND CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION: The information contained in this > electronic transmission, and any documents attached hereto, may contain > confidential information that is legally privileged and confidential. The > information is intended only for the use of the recipient(s) named above. If > you have received this electronic message in error, please notify the sender > and delete the electronic message. Any disclosure, copying, distribution or > the taking of any action in reliance on the contents of the information > received in error is strictly prohibited. > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > >
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