Ross Johnson wrote:
On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 10:11 -0500, Immanuel CRC Office wrote:
Ross Johnson wrote:
On Sat, 2006-03-11 at 09:16 +0000, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
Ross Johnson wrote:
On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 09:16 -0700, Solveig L Haugland wrote:
Hi,
I've got a blog on how to center text vertically on a page with a text box.
http://openoffice.blogs.com/openoffice/2005/12/centering_text_.html
Did you notice that, with both the draw frame (and the same applies for
the table idea), you had to size one or both dimensions? I.e. the table
needed vertical height set; the draw frame needed both vertical and
horizontal. Now what happens when the document page format is changed?
E.g. from portrait to landscape, or from A4 to Letter?
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I give in! The conversion of page formats hadn't occurred to me and,
given that possibility, I agree that a centred frame is the 'pure' (and
optimum) tool to use.
Peter HB
What is the RFE number please. I will add my votes.
An RFE isn't needed. Everything you need to do this is in OOo already,
and uses only natural ingredients. If you're referring to the interest
expressed earlier in an RFE to add vertical text centring in frames,
that isn't necessary, and I don't think it would work as a general
feature anyway.
If you can tolerate yet more on this subject, here is how it's done -
either anchored relative within the document or fixed to a specific
page, with text flowing past it:
You start with a frame this is centred on the page vertically and
horizontally, and has 'Automatic' width and 'Autosize' height, so that
the frame shrinks or expands to fit the text. With these settings there
is no notion of top, centre, or bottom alignment to worry about.
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Russ:
This is okay to do, but the problem then is added when you open a Word
doc with page centered vertically: does it add all these frames? When
you export OOo doing this, how does it work in Word?
I think that should maybe be part of the discussion.
A text frame is an 'official' layout device so the OOo export filters
should be able to interpret the intended positioning unambiguously. The
same is true for the table and draw frame, unless the page text area
size changes due to page format, changes in headers, footers, footnote
regions etc. e.g. due to slight changes in font sizes due to font
substitutions. If the page text area changes then the manually sized (in
height at least) draw frames and tables will need adjustment or the text
will no longer be centred, not to mention other unintended effects could
be introduced. The text frame text should remain properly centred (in
theory).
It would be interesting to know how the OOo import filters convert
vertically centred pages from .doc files.
It does not keep the centered page vertically. The text goes to the top
of the page when OOo opens it.
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