Re: Images.

[Keith N. McKenna]

On 5/9/2020 11:04 AM, Eileen Fray wrote:
> I’m writing a memoir using apache open office. Each time i log on I get 
> photos where I want them.  I come back and half are gone. Then I can’t 
> remember even which ones they were. I get this image below on screen. I’ve 
> spent 3 months on this project and am at my wits end and reduced to tears 
> today  because I can’t keep photos loaded from photos on pc to stay  in 
> position. 
> I’m nearly 70 and not computer savvy  at all so am really struggling. 
> I’ve tried to read forums and have read pages and pages of hints that make no 
> sense to me at all  as I don’t understans the jargon.  Lockdown means 
> 
> 
>  I can get no one to help me. 
> Please can you help me  ? 
> 
> 
> 
> I will be most grateful !! 
> 
> Stay safe 
> Eileen Fray 07716132040
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Ellen;

I suspect your problem may be with memory options in OpenOffice. Here is
the first thing we should try to help alleviate the problem

1)  Start OpenOffice
2)  Click Tools -> Options
This will open a dialog box
3)  On the left side of the box under OpenOffice click Memory
If you do not see the Memory option listed click the +  
next to OpenOffice

4)  On the Right side  of the box under Graphics cache set the Use  for
OpenOffice Spin box to 256 by highlighting the number already there and
typing 256

5)  Clock OK button
 Close OpenOffice and try editing your memoir again and see if it helped
then reply to this message as to whether it worked or not.





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Re: Images.

[Leon Zar]

Hi Eileen,
Just guessing here, but are you sure you SAVE your document before you log
off?
Regards,
  Leon

On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 10:49 AM Eileen Fray 
wrote:

> I’m writing a memoir using apache open office. Each time i log on I get
> photos where I want them.  I come back and half are gone. Then I can’t
> remember even which ones they were. I get this image below on screen. I’ve
> spent 3 months on this project and am at my wits end and reduced to tears
> today  because I can’t keep photos loaded from photos on pc to stay  in
> position.
> I’m nearly 70 and not computer savvy  at all so am really struggling.
> I’ve tried to read forums and have read pages and pages of hints that make
> no sense to me at all  as I don’t understans the jargon.  Lockdown means  I
> can get no one to help me.
> Please can you help me  ?
> I will be most grateful !!
>
> Stay safe
> Eileen Fray 07716132040
> Sent from my iPhone
>
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Re: Images with Text

[James Plante]

Now that you have the page style defined, go to the page *before* the one where 
you want the background image. Choose Insert —> Manual Break… :: Page, then 
select your styled page. That will put your page where you want it.

Jim

> On Mar 23, 2016, at 2:35 PM, Dale Erwin  wrote:
> 
> I can't even find the email now, but the first suggestion I read was to put 
> the image in the background and then type over it, and that seemed to work 
> just fine.  Only problem was that the background was on every page.  So I 
> undid everything, made a new page style for the page with the image.  Now 
> something is happening that I have never experienced before.  When I put the 
> cursor in the page where I want the image to appear and double-click on the 
> page style I created, nothing happens... at least that's what I thought but 
> what happened is that the first page of the document was set to the style and 
> not the page where I wanted the image.
> 
> No matter what page in the document I select, the style gets applied to the 
> first page, and since the Next style is set to the main style, it is the only 
> page with the background image.  I've never seen this behavior before.  What 
> am I doing wrong?  Why doesn't the page style I double-click get applied to 
> the page where the cursor is?
> 
> Dale Erwin
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Re: Images with Text

[Brian Barker]

At 12:10 23/03/2016 -0500, Dale Erwin wrote:
I would like to know if there is any way to insert images in my text 
document in such a way that I can then place text superimposed on 
the images. So far, I have only been able to put text above or 
below, although I seem to remember having put text to the side of an 
image in the past. But now I need to put text inside the image. Is 
there any way to do that?


The simplest way is probably to use a text box.
o Go to View | Toolbars > | Drawing in order to display the Drawing 
toolbar (perhaps temporarily).
o Click the Text icon ("T") in the Drawing toolbar and drag the 
(modified) cursor to create the box.

o Enter the text.

You can drag to resize or reposition the text box and can adjust the 
formatting of the text in the usual way.


I trust this helps.

Brian Barker


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Re: Images with Text

[Rory O'Farrell]

On Wed, 23 Mar 2016 12:10:01 -0500
Dale Erwin  wrote:

> I would like to know if there is any way to insert images in my text 
> document in such a way that I can then place text superimposed on the 
> images.  So far, I have only been able to put text above or below, 
> although I seem to remember having put text to the side of an image in 
> the past.  But now I need to put text inside the image.  Is there any 
> way to do that?
> 
> Dale Erwin
> 

This discussion may help
https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=30=49615

Also this

https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5=43917
-- 
Rory O'Farrell 

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Re: Bright ideas/help re images in Calc

[Regina Henschel]

Hi Mike,

Mike schrieb:

Hello!

I want to make a list of maybe 400-600 items, each with a thumbsize
image.  Other data includes a major and minor category name, and
descriptive text.  I want to be able to sort the list on the category
names, at least.

I have been experimenting with Calc and have of course come up against
the problem of images not sorting as part of rows.  I much prefer the
simplicity of Calc to using Base (which I've never managed to master).


Have you tried the task in Writer? Writer-tables have only small tools 
for calculating and no named data ranges, no pivot-table or so. But a 
simple three-layer sorting is possible. I have tested it for small 
tables and that works without problems. You mark the rows which you want 
to sort and use Tools > Sort... Only the large number of items might be 
a problem.


Writer-tables have the very nice property, that the image is 
automatically downscales to the column-width on inserting. Additional 
advantage is, that you have the full styling and editing features of Writer.


Kind regards
Regina

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Bright ideas/help re images in Calc

[Mike]

Hello!

I want to make a list of maybe 400-600 items, each with a thumbsize 
image.  Other data includes a major and minor category name, and 
descriptive text.  I want to be able to sort the list on the category 
names, at least.


I have been experimenting with Calc and have of course come up against 
the problem of images not sorting as part of rows.  I much prefer the 
simplicity of Calc to using Base (which I've never managed to master).


One solution I've thought of but not worked thru is to hold the images 
in a separate Calc sheet and then in the main sheet refer to the image 
cell address.  Is there a clever way of then merging the sorted main 
sheet and the images sheet so that the images are properly associated 
with the descriptions - either for display only, but preferably for 
print.  Or some other way of achieving the same result?


A fall back solution is to create the main sheet, sort it, add the 
images, then make changes only by deleting or adding rows.  That'd be 
acceptable, but limits new sorts that I don't anticipate now but may 
find would be useful later on - such as sort by item $$ value.


I've looked on the 'net for catalogue systems for museums, art galleries 
etc, and while they cover what I want they all have seemed to be over 
complicated.


I'm running AOO 4.1.1 on a MacBook Pro running OS X 10.9.5

thanks,

Mike Shearer