I feel like I see this question off and on... On 11/05/2009 02:26 PM, John Kaufmann wrote:
According to the OO documentation ("Working with Graphics"), any picture inside a frame should have "To Frame" among its Anchor options.
That sounds WRONG. I can think of no particular reason that an image inside of a frame should be anchored to the frame. I assume, however, that it must be anchored either to the frame, or to something in that frame. If not, well, then it is not really in the frame. Not to split hairs, but one might argue that an image anchored to a frame might actually exist outside the frame (but I might argue that for any anchor type).
I have certainly anchored images as a character inside of a frame.
In a document I wrote are ~30 pictures inside frames - but only half of them have the "Anchor.. To Frame" option. After much study, I'm still unable to see the difference between those that have and those that do not have the option. Even pictures side by side can be different. Can anyone tell me what to look for to normalize this?
I suppose that it depends on how the image ended up inside of a specific frame.
And - bonus question - since Writer believes that a picture with caption is lost without a frame (and thus supplies one automatically), why would the picture ever *not* be anchored to the frame?
I would say that the previous statement is not entirely true either. First, look at why writer may choose to do it this way...
You tell OOo to caption an image. The intent is to keep the image with the caption. If both are in the same frame, then they will stay together, kind of like throwing two items into a box together. So, OOo places an image into a frame and then places the caption into the frame with the image.
There are other advantages to this, that can only be done by using something like a frame. For example, what if I want text to flow around an image and its caption? Well, I can flow text around a frame, and if the frame contains the image and the caption then you are done.
I usually embed my images as a character on a line with nothing else. I use a paragraph style that is configured to stay with the next paragraph, which contains the caption.
I place the caption below the image. THis contains a field (for the caption number) and text. I use a specific paragraph style for the caption.
There are certain benefits to this, but the ability to drag the image and caption around in a frame is not one of them. I would ramble on more about this, but I am hours late for going to sleep.
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