-----Original Message----- From: Tom Bell [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 12:19 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [users] Re: Problem inserting graphics into a Writer document
On 4/28/2011 11:29 AM, Rick Genter wrote: > I'm writing a development guide and I use a lot of screenshots. I use > Insert->Picture-> From File... to insert these screenshots. Often when I do > so I get multiple blank pages before the screenshot, and sometimes the > screenshot ends up appearing on top of another screenshot. Sometimes I can > get the situation to correct itself by selecting the screenshot and then > pressing the left arrow key on the keyboard (which appears to move the image > a small amount - 1/2 inch? - to the left), followed by pressing the right > arrow key on the keyboard. Sometimes, though, I have to play around with > adding/removing text until suddenly the layout magically fixes itself. [...] > > Check the anchoring for each picture. Change the anchoring to get the setup you need. Look in 'HELP' and type 'anchors' in search term, then choose 'options'. Good luck! ========================= I was just about to post a question about this. Some time ago, on advice from this list, I began using Anchor > As character wherever I could, which removed a tremendous amount of stress, swearing, hair-pulling, and murderous thoughts, as pictures in table cells would actually stay where I put them. HOWEVER, the help page that you suggest has "Effect" descriptions that are barely better than the name of each option. Written by someone who doesn't understand the purpose of "help". Is there a page, or a discussion, somewhere that gives some use-cases or explains and compares/contrasts the pros and cons of each anchoring option? For example, if I anchor a picture to a 'paragraph' that is just one character (maybe a space, or maybe just the paragraph marker), why does the picture feel free to jump all over my document (or at least, all over my table), if I reflow the table? The twitchiness seems slightly less if I anchor "To character", but stops happening only if I Anchor "As character". How does it make sense that when I reflow a table, such as by adding or removing a row, or adding text that makes a row jump to a new page, a picture that is 'anchored' to a paragraph in the second cell of row ten suddenly feels free to jump up and lie on top of the picture 'anchored' to a para in a cell in row 1?? What kind of algorithm makes that happen? What would the pseudo-code look like? What would be the use-case where that is desirable behavio[u]r? As indicated, I do have the workaround - anchor AS a character, rather than TO anything - but my curiosity has been bugging me about this since version 1-dot-something. Anybody have any insight? - kevin <legalbumpfstart> The information contained in this electronic mail transmission may be privileged and confidential, and therefore, protected from disclosure. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to this message and deleting it from your computer without copying or disclosing it. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] For additional commands send email to [email protected] with Subject: help
