On Sun, 17 May 2009 08:06:21 -0400 Came this utterance formulated by Eustace to my mailbox:
> On 2009-05-17 07:33 Eustace wrote: > > On 2009-05-16 18:02 Brian Barker wrote: > >> At 14:54 16/05/2009 -0400, Eustace Fril wrote: > >>> I want to add a star on a gif. I have opened the gif. According to > >>> the OOo Help: > >>> > >>> "Click an icon on the Stars and Banners toolbar, and then drag in > >the >> document to draw the shape." > >>> > >>> How do you do this? If I right click and hold down on a star icon > >and >> move the pointer to the point I would like to put the star > >nothing >> happens. If I double click on the star, when the pointer > >moves on the >> gif it becomes a + and moves the gif if I click and > >hold. Help, please.> > >> Are you doing this in a text (Writer) document or a drawing (Draw) > >> one? You don't say which. > > > > A drawing (Draw). > > > >> A bit of experimentation suggests that to achieve what you want in > >> Draw, it is necessary that the existing image should *not* be > >selected > before you charge the cursor, as it were, with > >star-drawing ability. > If the image shows the eight green handles, > >click outside it first to > deselect it before going to the star > >symbol in the toolbar. > > > > After yours and Michael's reply I experimented a little more and > > finally managed it. > > > >> Writer behaves differently and does not show this problem. > > > > So there _is_ a problem. It did seem that somehow the behavior was > > not what I expected. > > > >> At least, that's how it works in my 3.1.0 under Windows XP. > > > > 3.0.1. Same OS. > > > >> I trust this helps. > >> > >> Brian Barker > > > > Thanks, > > > > emf > > One clarification to what I wrote: when I select Line > Style > > -None-, the borders do appear white. But, as I said, when I select > another style, there is no option of Color > Automatic, so that the > borders appear white and print black, like the text does. Now you are getting confusing. When you select line - style - none there should be no line at all. If you choose automatic colour for text it contrasts with the background colour. If it is a dark background text is white, if a light background text is black. If you were to set automatic colour for a graphic border line, your star in this case, should it contrast with the graphic object colour which it is the border too, or the background colour? What if the star is black and the background white, then what should the automatic colour be? -- Michael All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well - Julian of Norwich 1342 - 1416 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
