https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156261
Bug ID: 156261
Summary: Writer: Discrepancy between frame and graphical object
management
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 7.5.3.2 release
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Created attachment 188340
--> https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/attachment.cgi?id=188340&action=edit
Difference between image and drawing viz. frames
Experiment made with LO 7.5.3.2 under Fedora 32, Linux kernel 6.3.12, KDE
Plasma desktop (Qt widgets)
When an image is pasted into a document, Writer encloses it into a frame (or
makes the image a frame) which is styled Graphics. Since this is frame,
properties can easily be controlled by a frame style and tuning the layout of
all images is easy.
Now make a drawing in Draw.Of course, this is not an image. Copy it and paste
it into Writer.
All drawing components are _grouped_ even if this was not done by user, so that
they appear as a single graphical object. But the object is inserted "as is" at
its anchor point. No frame contains it. This means no frame style can be
assigned to it and no central management is possible. Every drawing, though
supposed to have the same layout properties (such as wrap, spacing and
alignment), must be manually adjusted.
However a bounding box can be computed (and this is done to display a selection
rectangle with handles). And it could be the basis for a frame.
I have also tried to anchor the drawing inside a (text) frame and use autosize
properties to adjust the frame to drawing size. Unfortunately, horizontal
autosizing does not work. This may be on purpose because autosizing text would
end up with a frame extending from margin to margin (or even worse).
Nevertheless, this makes "jailing" a drawing very unfriendly.
The attached shows thre cases:
1 - image (correctly contained in a frame)
2 - drawing (on its own)
3 - attempt to constrain a drawing inside a frame
If this is not a bug, consider the present report as a feature enhancement
request to put any external content inside a frame. I don't target any drawing
done "internally" with Writer graphical tools. If user does so, he is assumed
to be aware of all hazards in the procedure and accept the consequences. My
target is whatever illustration prepared outside of Writer to be inserted as an
atomic block.
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