On 2005-09-10 08:23:07, G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 22:03 +0000, William W. Austin wrote: > On 2005-09-07 21:28:29, Ned Milburn wrote: > > Hi Open Office Team, > > > > You guys all did an AMAZING job of the Beta 2 version of Open > > Office!!!
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> > I have a suggestion/request for a feature. I would like to be able > > to tile the page background to the edge of the page while keeping the > > text margins in tact.
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> While the feature isn't available yet (I know it has been requested > before), I did find a way to do it which works for docs which are > small enough to apply this trick to manually. > > Create your doc without the background. Create a frame the same size as > your paper (in my case 8.5"x11"). Put the image tiles in it, specify > tile. You may want to specify a pretty high transparency percentage. > > On the frame options, set Wrap to through and select the option "in> background." > > You'll see your text on top of the image. Then copy the frame and > manually put it on every page (sorry I haven't figured out a macro > to add this to each page yet...). > > While it isn't perfect, so far I've done about 6 of these and they > have all looked find (to me and to the people I was giving them to, > anyway.) > > Hope this helps. Just a comment about this situation. I think that the problem has been approached from the wrong angle. What is needed can all be done with Styles. e.g. 1. make a page with no margins. 2. put the background on the page. In my example, I tiles a graphic. 3. Insert a frame with margins that suit. 4. set any other styles needed such as paragraph, character et cetera 5. save as template.
I had actually tried it that way initially, but had kept experimenting since for multi-page documents where the text flows from page to page, this technique proved (unless I was doing it wrong, which is of course a possibility) to be a bit harder. The way I suggested, I could resize the frame, make the changes, then make the frame full-page-sized again. And I figured that if I had to I could write a macro to copy the frame from page to page for me (haven't needed to yet, though because the biggest thing I've done like this was a paper with 1" soccer balls as a background and it was only 19 pages.
But OTOH I haven't tried flowing frames from page to page in document this size yet. I'll check into it - thanks for the idea/suggestion :-).
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