Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing image from LO Draw (ODG) to Writer
Hi :) You are not yet thinking in the LO way. The modules/apps (such as Writer, Calc, Draw) are not separate programs in the way you seem to be trying to use them. This is very different from MS Office. With MSO if you open 2 of the apps then you pretty much double the amount of space taken up in Ram and double the resources used. Why not just create the page-breaks in Draw? Even if you do get the Pdf into Writer and save as an Odt rather than an Odg it still doesn't become any more editable than it is as an Odg. Pdf is made to be uneditable. That is part of it's aim. It's because it is uneditable that it appears the same on every machine or printer in any OS or program that displays Pdf, or at least that's the aim. You might find it helpful to skim quickly through the Getting Started Guide and see if soem things in there catch your eye https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications Regards from Tom :) From: Cliff Scott c...@intergate.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Sunday, 21 July 2013, 3:54 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Importing image from LO Draw (ODG) to Writer I had a one page PDF file that I wanted to break into multiple pages. Opening the PDF with LO resulted in LO Draw opening with the file nicely displayed. I saved it as a draw image (odg) and then expected to be able to directly import it to Writer. Unfortunately I could find no way to do that. Even using copy/paste resulted in a black page since the image was larger than one page. My hope was to have it come in and naturally break into multiple pages. As a last resort I selected a portion of the image in Draw , copy/pasted it into Writer, inserted a page break then repeated the action on multiple pages until the entire image was in Writer. It seems as if there must be a more elegant way to do this. I have never used Draw before so I'm just trying to figure out the details. To be useful it seems as if there must be an easy way to move from Draw into Writer or Calc. Can someone help me see what I'm missing? Thanks. Cliff -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing image from LO Draw (ODG) to Writer
** Reply to message from Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk on Sun, 21 Jul 2013 11:21:58 +0100 (BST) Hi Tom, I appreciate your thoughts. I'm sure I don't understand all the integration of the modules. I don't have an internet connection right now so can't look at the suggested resource, but will when I can. Using the LO help file and trying all the menu options I can find I don't see any way to put page breaks in a draw image. I can select different parts of the image, but I see nothing regarding page breaks and the cursor will not stop anywhere alongside the image to allow one to select a page break even if there was an menu item for it as there is in Writer. Could you explain in more detail how I would go about doing this? The best I could get from the Help was to do it as I did with selecting portions and copy/paste into Writer. Cliff Hi :) You are not yet thinking in the LO way. The modules/apps (such as Writer, Calc, Draw) are not separate programs in the way you seem to be trying to use them. This is very different from MS Office. With MSO if you open 2 of the apps then you pretty much double the amount of space taken up in Ram and double the resources used. Why not just create the page-breaks in Draw? Even if you do get the Pdf into Writer and save as an Odt rather than an Odg it still doesn't become any more editable than it is as an Odg. Pdf is made to be uneditable. That is part of it's aim. It's because it is uneditable that it appears the same on every machine or printer in any OS or program that displays Pdf, or at least that's the aim. You might find it helpful to skim quickly through the Getting Started Guide and see if some things in there catch your eye https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications Regards from Tom :) From: Cliff Scott c...@intergate.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Sunday, 21 July 2013, 3:54 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Importing image from LO Draw (ODG) to Writer I had a one page PDF file that I wanted to break into multiple pages. Opening the PDF with LO resulted in LO Draw opening with the file nicely displayed. I saved it as a draw image (odg) and then expected to be able to directly import it to Writer. Unfortunately I could find no way to do that. Even using copy/paste resulted in a black page since the image was larger than one page. My hope was to have it come in and naturally break into multiple pages. As a last resort I selected a portion of the image in Draw , copy/pasted it into Writer, inserted a page break then repeated the action on multiple pages until the entire image was in Writer. It seems as if there must be a more elegant way to do this. I have never used Draw before so I'm just trying to figure out the details. To be useful it seems as if there must be an easy way to move from Draw into Writer or Calc. Can someone help me see what I'm missing? Thanks. Cliff -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing image from LO Draw (ODG) to Writer
Hi :) Sorry chap! I was thinking that you could get the cursor beside the image in a page and then press Ctrl Enter or from the menus do Insert - errr, Slide (surely that should be page as in Writer rather than slide as in Impress?) When the cursor is beside a whole-page image it is not the tiny small thing it usually is but instead takes up the whole vertical height of the image. I'm actually coming around to thinking that you might have had the best method after all! Apols and regards from Tom :) From: Cliff Scott c...@intergate.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Monday, 22 July 2013, 0:43 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing image from LO Draw (ODG) to Writer ** Reply to message from Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk on Sun, 21 Jul 2013 11:21:58 +0100 (BST) Hi Tom, I appreciate your thoughts. I'm sure I don't understand all the integration of the modules. I don't have an internet connection right now so can't look at the suggested resource, but will when I can. Using the LO help file and trying all the menu options I can find I don't see any way to put page breaks in a draw image. I can select different parts of the image, but I see nothing regarding page breaks and the cursor will not stop anywhere alongside the image to allow one to select a page break even if there was an menu item for it as there is in Writer. Could you explain in more detail how I would go about doing this? The best I could get from the Help was to do it as I did with selecting portions and copy/paste into Writer. Cliff Hi :) You are not yet thinking in the LO way. The modules/apps (such as Writer, Calc, Draw) are not separate programs in the way you seem to be trying to use them. This is very different from MS Office. With MSO if you open 2 of the apps then you pretty much double the amount of space taken up in Ram and double the resources used. Why not just create the page-breaks in Draw? Even if you do get the Pdf into Writer and save as an Odt rather than an Odg it still doesn't become any more editable than it is as an Odg. Pdf is made to be uneditable. That is part of it's aim. It's because it is uneditable that it appears the same on every machine or printer in any OS or program that displays Pdf, or at least that's the aim. You might find it helpful to skim quickly through the Getting Started Guide and see if some things in there catch your eye https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications Regards from Tom :) From: Cliff Scott c...@intergate.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Sunday, 21 July 2013, 3:54 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Importing image from LO Draw (ODG) to Writer I had a one page PDF file that I wanted to break into multiple pages. Opening the PDF with LO resulted in LO Draw opening with the file nicely displayed. I saved it as a draw image (odg) and then expected to be able to directly import it to Writer. Unfortunately I could find no way to do that. Even using copy/paste resulted in a black page since the image was larger than one page. My hope was to have it come in and naturally break into multiple pages. As a last resort I selected a portion of the image in Draw , copy/pasted it into Writer, inserted a page break then repeated the action on multiple pages until the entire image was in Writer. It seems as if there must be a more elegant way to do this. I have never used Draw before so I'm just trying to figure out the details. To be useful it seems as if there must be an easy way to move from Draw into Writer or Calc. Can someone help me see what I'm missing? Thanks. Cliff -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
