Hi :) I've had trouble with text not flowing into obvious white-spaces between fairly large images. I've got a feeling that Draw might be better for my newsletter but i've never had time to set-up the text-boxes and really give it a fair go. Other people have been urging me to try inkscape for it but i've always stuck to writer and just had fun with it. Regards from Tom :)
On 21 May 2014 21:28, Virgil Arrington <[email protected]> wrote: > Bruce, > > Your post is very timely. I've been wrestling with a document containing > 15 photographs with captions. I wanted to insert them into the text with > text wrapping around the pictures. I made numerous attempts and often found > myself trying to move or resize a picture just a little bit. When I tried, > the picture suddenly changed to a different page (with either paragraph or > character anchoring). At one point, I had a "sproingg!!" moment and found 6 > pictures had jumped to one location and were piled on top of each other. I > had placed these six images on 3 or 4 different pages. > > I finally gave up and reverted to my reliable Atlantis and created a > separate Appendix document consisting of a single picture on each page. I'm > sure I could have done this with LO Writer, but Atlantis made the whole > process so easy that I just used it to get the job done. > > When I have a few more minutes, I'll try to recreate both of your methods > to see how they work. I'll let you know how it works. > > Virgil > > > On 5/21/2014 3:16 PM, Bruce Byfield wrote: > >> If you've done much work positioning graphics in text, then you know how >> difficult it can be to make sure that the graphics stay in place. In the >> past, >> many experts have come up with recommendations about the best settings to >> use, >> but these suggestions either don't work if you try to export to another >> format >> or else have been made obsolete by changes to the program over the year. >> >> In preparation for my upcoming book on OpenOffice/LibreOffice, I'm hoping >> to solve >> this problem once and for all. Could anyone who is interested reproduce >> the >> two methods below, then try to break them by copying and pasting, adding >> text >> around the graphics, and anything else you can think of? I would be very >> interested in hearing results, especially on platforms other than Linux. >> >> Method #1: Right-click on a graphic, and select Picture -> Options -> >> Protect >> _> Position and Size. >> >> Method #2: >> >> 1. Turn off auto-caption in Tools > Options >> >> 2. Create table with 1 column, 2 rows. Set space above and below. Do not >> allow >> to splilt across page or column, or keep with next paragraph, do not >> create >> heading row. >> >> 3. Set space above and below table (multiple of line height) >> >> 4. Place picture in 1st row. If you have trouble placing it in a cell, >> space >> down in the cell a few times before inserting the picture. >> >> 5. Position picture: either move using alignment or, if you want an >> indentation from the left, adjust from right, subtracting space from the >> total >> width of the table. >> >> 6. Add caption in second row. If graphic is indented, you will need to >> create >> a caption paragraph style with an indent. >> >> 7. In table context menu, unselect Table Boundaries. For convenience, you >> may >> want to unselect only before you print. >> >> Thanks to anyone whose curiosity or need encourages them to join the >> experiment. >> > > > -- > 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 > > -- 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
