On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 15:12 +0200, Cor Nouws wrote: > Hallo Ron, > > Ron Rademaker wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I got two images, both are the size of a full page in openoffice writer. > > I want the first image to be the background in the first page and the > > second to be the background in all following pages. > > You have to use page-styles. > - Open the Stylist with F11, > - Select page-styles (fourth button top left) > - Double click on First page. > Now that page style is applied to the first page of your document. > > You can set the background. > - Select the style name; > - Rightclick and choose Change > - Go to tab Background and play aroud ... > > The next pages, depend on a property of the first page style > - In the window to change First page-styl, go to the first tab. > - There you see that the next page style is Default. > > So if you change the page style Default, the other pages can be changed. > Of course you can set other page-styles, for example to make left and > right pages follow up. > > > > Furthermore, the > > images are created without margin, for the text I (of course) do want > > some margins. > > Hmm, not sure if that works with the images. > Anyway you need the info about page styles in the following solution. > > - In the page styles, turn on headers. > - with the cursor in a header, click Insert|Frame ... > - tab 'Omloop' choose 'Doorloop', select at the Background; > - tab Background, select the image, and choose Area. > - you can also set transparency there ;-) > > Now click OK. > You can enlange the frame with the mouse. > For a result, see: > http://www.nouenoff.nl/downloads/background_image.pdf > > Do the same for the other page. > Getting the cursor in the text is a bit special, but you will get used > to it. > > HTH > & vr. groet, > Cor >
Alternatively you can adjust the page style margins to zero and the paragraph style indent to the value of your required text margin. Barrie --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
