On 13 Jul 2005 at 20:02, Doug Thompson wrote:
...
> A simple test allowed me to create a page in draw, copy the graphic 
to
> the clipboard, then paste it into a document page.  I imagine you 
could
> use frames, too.
> 
> Where is the problem?

Inconsistency.

If you follow your procedure, you can insert in a writer doc, say, two 
graphics objects copied from draw. You can click and shift-click to 
select them, and align them, rotate them (albeit via a spin box) and do 
all the interesting graphics things.  At least, you can sometimes.

If you Insert | Graphics | From File..., then you're stuck. You can't 
select more than one, and you can't rotate them. Nor do you get the 
position & size menu option.

Oh, and the 'sometimes' I mention above seems related to whether you 
have only copied draw selections, or both those and included graphics 
from files. The test document I've been playing with as I write this is 
actually somewhat inconsistent in this respect.

If you do things the other way around, and copy text from writer into 
draw, you get a text object that behaves differently from draw's native 
text box.  You get writer's selection of fields (although the page 
count is afaict always 1), but no rotation, where the native draw text 
box has a limited set of fields but does allow rotation.

(This is 1.1.4 under XP, btw)
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