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!
Sandy Koch [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---- Pray, and let God worry. --Martin Luther
Try holding down the shift key while you drag the corner around to
resize. That forces it to maintain the original proportions.
Rod
BTW, that isn't in the Help AFAICT. At least I couldn't find it.
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