** Reply to message from Tom Davies <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> > >To: [email protected] > >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: [email protected] 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
