Hi Peter, In the download section at World Label, there are templates for OpenOffice/LibreOffice. These are table style templates, and they work beautifully.
*Don C. Myers, Realtor* RE/MAX Centre Realty 1375 Martin Street State College, PA 16803 Cell- 814.571.9518 *Farm & Rural Lifestyle Properties* *www.CentralPaRuralProperty.com <http://bit.ly/centralparuralproperty>* <http://bit.ly/centralparurallifestylesfacebook> On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 6:25 PM, Peter Hillier-Brook <[email protected]> wrote: > On 21/12/16 22:56, Gary Dale wrote: > > This is ridiculous. I've just been reading a question from a 2008 (3.2) > > version of OpenOffice.org that is the same as my current problem. Namely > > that you can't place images in the background on a business card. > > > > I'm using LibreOffice 5.2 (Debian) and when I insert an image, it > > refuses to go behind the text whether I select Arrange | Send to back or > > Wrap | wrap through. It will go behind the text if I select Wrap | in > > background but then it disappears. And no, before you ask, the paragraph > > fill is set to none. > > > > I finally found a setting in Format | Page | Transparency where setting > > the transparency to 100% worked. Strangely the original setting was 50% > > which resulted in the background image being hidden completely. A quick > > experiment revealed that ANY setting other than 100% hid the background > > image. > > > > I have no idea what this "feature" is for but it seems completely > > unintuitive and in conflict with the paragraph background setting, not > > to mention the wrap in background feature. > > > > So my beef is: > > 1) Arrange doesn't appear to work on labels, > > 2) wrap through doesn't appear to work on labels, > > 3) there seems to be a page background that is in front of any > > background image, > > 4) the transparency setting for that page background only has two values > > - 100% or opaque, and > > 5) this situation has been around for at least 8 years without being > fixed. > > > > Why can't the developers address these basic problems? > > If you use a table for your layout then placing an image in the > background behaves as you would wish. Sadly LibreOffice uses a > frame-based layout for labels and that might be where your problem lies. > > I do not experience problems with my Avery business card stock using the > table based approach. > > Peter HB > > > > -- > 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
