On 02-Aug-05, you wrote:

> On Tuesday 02 August 2005 08:56 pm, Brent Meeker wrote:
>> On 02-Aug-05, you wrote:
>>> Please do *not* start a new question by replying to an old one as
>>> this causes several problems:
>>> 1) most email software will correctly think that your email is a
>>> response to the email you are "replying" to, and will indicate this
>>> by displaying your email as a child of the original email 2)
>>> because of this, people not interested in the original email may
>>> ignore your question
>>> 3) people may think that the original email has a reply(yours) so
>>> that they do not have to give it a reply So in conclusion, more
>>> people will read your email if it looks like the start of a new
>>> thread rather than the reply to an old one.
>>> 
>>> On Tuesday 02 August 2005 23:03, Brent Meeker wrote:
>>>> When preparing a flowchart using Impress the connector lines need
>>>> to be adjusted so they don't go thru text boxes or otherwise look
>>>> bad. However, they seem to jump to positions on a very coarse grid
>>>> such that I can't get them adjusted to make a usable flowchart.
>>>> Similarly, the line drawing tool will only produce a certain
>>>> minium length and it can't be finely adjusted.
>>>> 
>>>> Is there some way to allow fine adjustment of line and object
>>>> positions?
>>> 
>>> Is "glue points" what you are looking for on objects ?
>>> Also I think that lines can be edited to add additional points.
>> 
>> No, my problem is that when I need to move a connector line 0.1" or
>> 0.05" the program will only let me move it 0.2" or not at all.
>> 
>> My apologies for using "reply" to a different thread.
>> 
>> Brent Meeker
>> 
> Perhaps you need to change your ruler. Instead of inches, cm or mm might 
> give you closer results. Also, have you right clicked the object and 
> selected Size and Position from the context menu? That should allow you 
> to place the object right where you want it.
> 
> Dan

Neither of those worked - but in poking around I discovered that "snap to
grid" was set.  I turned it off and then I could move lines as I expected.

thnx, Brent Meeker



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