On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 10:42 -0500, Sandy Koch wrote: > My WordPerfect and my printer aren't playing nicely together anymore, and > before spending big $$ to upgrade to a newer version of WP, I thought I'd > give OpenOffice.org a try. I've heard great things about it! This project > I'm working on is a HUGE project for me, (I've got thousands of digital > family photos and want to get them printed in a scrapabook form). I've been > using WP's text art, inserting photos and write captions, to create > computerized scrapbook type pages. But I've been unable to get my printer to > print these documents recently, which is why I'm wanting to try something > different. > > I'm very new to OpenOffice.org (just downloaded it last night..version 2.0 > beta on a Windows XP machine) and am trying to insert pictures into a new > document. I have looked all over and can't find information on keeping the > photo in its original proportions when I resize. I insert a picture from > file, and it works perfectly--exactly like I want it to. The picture then > fills the page, and since I want several pictures with captions on one page, > I need to resize the picture. I grab the little corner square and resize it > (I'm coming into OpenOffice with an almost 15 year experience with > WordPerfect, and this is how I resize photos with that program). But the > pictures end up unproportional and my kids end up looking like they are in a > funhouse mirror! I need the pictures to retain their original proportions as > I resize them. Is there something I'm overlooking--it seems to me it should > be simple, but I just can't find it. > > Thanks for any help and suggestions! >
You might like to try the Impress Photo Album Creator from ooomacros. You can get to this site via http://documentation.openoffice.org/thirdparty.html -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
