2009/11/10 McLauchlan, Kevin <[email protected]>: > > G'day all. > > Here's today's question... :-) > > Is there a good tutorial/explanation somewhere on how to place photos/graphic > items in a document so that they: > > a) Move smoothly with the text to which they are attached (as document gets > edited/repaginated). > > b) Keep text from sliding under their edges and being obscured. > > c) Don't go sillly when the text gets pushed across a page boundary. > > d) Behave sensibly when anchored to a paragraph in a table cell, even when > the table cell is pushed to the bottom of a page or shifts to the following > page.
Welcome to one of the most annoying aspect of OOo (or of MS Office Word). What OOo is missing is the capability of floating a picture in the way LaTeX does. You may want to vote for this fairly old issue (opened in 2004!): http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=35545 You may find some useful information here: http://www.oooauthors.org/english/userguide3/writer3/WG3_published/0208WG3-WorkingWithGraphics.odt/view But I am afraid that the "silly" things you do is what every user does. I normally leave the placing of the pictures where I want them to be as the very last task and tend to use anchoring to the page without wrapping. OOo on the other hand is not meant to replace professional desktop publishing applications so there is a bit of compromising to accept. Cheers, Michele --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
