Thanks Regina I will use your info later this morning to get my thoughts in line so that I can change the information in the Impress Guide. The help definitely needs a similar explanation instead of the single sentence presently being used.
Regards Peter Schofield [email protected] Technical Writer, LO Documentation Team > On 29 Aug 2021, at 15:38, Regina Henschel <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Peter, > > Peter Schofield schrieb am 29.08.2021 um 11:44: >> I am trying to workout how glue points work in Impress and Draw. >> Some explanation is required as the LO help on this subject is not very >> helpful (pardon the pun). >> Glue Point Relative - maintains the relative position of a selected glue >> point when you resize an object. >> What does this mean? What is the relative position? >> Glue Point Horizontal left - when the object is resized, the current glue >> point remains fixed to the left edge of the object. >> What does this mean? >> Also applies to Glue Point Horizontal Center, Glue Point Horizontal Right, >> Glue Point Vertical Top, Glue Point Vertical Center, and Glue Point Vertical >> Bottom. >> I have tried several times to work this out, but not having much success. > > Draw a square shape of edge length 4cm, for example. Click 'Glue Points' > icon. That should open the toolbar 'Glue Points'; if not, open it from View > > Toolbars. Make sure icon 'Insert Glue Point' is on (that is a toggle icon). > Select the shape and click 1cm right and 1 cm down from the left/top corner > to insert a glue point. > The default setting is that icon 'Glue Point Relative' (the % icon) is on. > Drag the right edge of the square so that the shape becomes 12cm wide. > Notice that the glue point is no longer at position (1cm|1cm) in the > rectangle, but it is at position (3cm|1cm). The position of the glue point is > not fixes 1cm from the left, but it is at 25% of the shape size from the > left. The position is relative to the shape size. > > Make the above steps again. But before you drag the edge of the square we > change this 'relative to shape size'. Make sure icon 'Insert Glue Point' is > off (otherwise the next click would add a new glue point). Click the > previously created glue point. Then click on the 'Glue Point Relative' icon > to turn it off. When it is off, the icons right from it become active. Click > on 'Glue Point Horizontal Left' icon. > Now again drag the right edge of the shape so that the shape becomes 12cm > width. Notice that the glue point does not change its position. It is still > 1cm right of the left edge of the shape. Now drag the left edge of the shape > to reduce its width to 8cm. Now the glue point has moved so that it is still > 1cm right from the left edge of the shape. > That means, that the glue point position is relative to the shape, but its > position inside the shape has an absolute value. > >> Help please. > > I hope it is clearer now. > > Kind regards > Regina > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ > Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
