On Sat, 05 Nov 2005 09:11:07 -0500 "G. Roderick Singleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > So, basically, it can not be done with OO. Hand drawing frames is > > just a work-around - OO can not rotate page content. A pity. > > You are misinterpreting. I did not say that OOo could or could not do > this, what gave you was a method that I would use. > > You can insert text for vertical display in a number of ways. For > example using a vertical text box. > > I can see now that just saying yes would have been the best answer. On Sun, 6 Nov 2005 00:20:23 +0700 Fajar Priyanto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Or you can also just rotate the text 90 degree (which is you refused > to do). That way you'll have a consistent header and footer just like > another pages. Computer works on a certain rules, so header means > something on the TOP of the page and footer is on the BOTTOM of it. > So this applies to portrait and landscape format. > > If you really think that this feature is really something that is > hot, you can always submit a Request for feature to the developers. OK, sorry. I'm a bit frustrated, that's all. Here's the actual problem: Given a book consisting of portrait pages, on certain pages there should be a drawing or a table inserted. The graphics is, on its own right, a landscape picture (and so is the table, because it is wide but not very tall). The expected result is that the headers and footers for the page are as on any other page, i.e. on the top and bottom of the portrait page. The table and the graphics content of the page are rotated 90 degrees so that they fit the page nicely. The caption for the graphics or table is also in the rotated form, to match the graphics or table. ASCII art below shows the final result (of course the vertically written characters should also be rotated but I can't do it in this ASCII picture): +---------------------+ | header horizontal | | +-------------+ n | | | s | o | | | c | i | | | i e | t | | | h r l | p | | | p o b | a | | | a a | C | | | r t | . | | | G | 2 | | | | . | | +-------------+ 3 | | footer horizontal | +---------------------+ Editing the graphics when it is on its side is not very convenient and, if it happens to be a Chart from Calc, rather hard even to create. You can indeed define a landscape page, turn off headers and footers, define 2 frames on the side and make them look like as if they were header/footer by inserting the header/footer content on its side (including a little graphical logo in it that then must be again rotated manually) into them. Or I can create the page content as a graphics image, including the caption, rotate it in Draw, insert it into the portrait page and then keep track of the caption numbering (plus work out a way of the normal caption numbers to jump over the ones which I fake on the graphics). I guess we can agree that neither method is convenient, and since OO is a computer program working on certain rules, a simple rule of "turn the content of this page anticlockwise by 90 degrees" should be sufficient to achieve final result. The above page layout is not that esoteric, I have books on my bookself with figures and tables laid out just like that. So, explaining the above, I'd like to rephrase the question: is there a simple way to achieve the above described layout in OO, without me having to manually rotate either the page content or the H/F content? Thanks, Zoltan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
