Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
Ahhh, wife just called me... OK, quickly then...
I believe that you can create a frame style and apply it to graphics.
You can create a style to set things as desired... No time to verify,
sorry...
I have done this and it works fine. A bit fiddly, but use frames to
define the space, and then with a frame inside a frame, you can achieve
quite precise positioning. But I've never gotten around to giving
Scribus a go yet, so don't have a wide point of reference to recommend
this approach from.
For the purposes of positioning the diagrams, etc., for my MSc thesis
lay-out, it was just fine though. Naturally, YMMV.
On 11/10/2009 12:28 PM, McLauchlan, Kevin wrote:
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.
What I've been doing is silly.
I place my cursor at the desired location in text,
click Insert> Picture> From file> and browse to the desiired picture
When it comes in, I resize if necessary, and I right click to verify
the Anchor and the Wrap settings.
I've tried both Character and Paragraph anchors. I've tried various
wrap options.
A picture and text will seem to co-exist properly until the text
moves and then all bets seem to be off.
I've had a pic in a cell in the middle of a page and cell is the
right size to contain both the text and the photo that's anchored to
it... in approximately the desired positions. Then the table cell
gets moved to the bottom of the page (by text or other objects added
on earlier pages). The table cell is reluctant to jump to the next
page and so squashes itself down to just the size of the text,
leaving the photo feeling lost and confused. The photo them bumps up
against the top of the cell, but overlaps the bottom of the cell, as
well as the bottom of the text area and the page footer. I think
maybe it's not supposed to work that way?
Is there some other batch of settings that I've been neglecting?
Another dialog I've overlooked?
- Kevin
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