Harold Fuchs wrote:
On Tuesday, January 23, 2007 8:47 PM [GMT+1=CET],
Stephanie Boulee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
How do you achieve this? I can find the properties for the page but
not the frame.
<snip>
1. Click on the border of the frame. Careful clicking brings up 8
green squares (I think they are called "handles") around the perimeter
of the frame and the cursor changes to a cross with an outward
pointing arrowhead at the end of each arm.
2. Right click in the frame and select Anchor and then To Character.
Note that in what follows, when I say "right click in the frame" I
mean that you must do it when the cursor is in its cross/arrowhead
form; if it isn't, (left) click the border of the frame again to bring
up the handles and correct cursor shape.
3. Right click in the frame and select Wrap and then In Background.
4. You can now move the frame over the text that's already there
without obscuring it. Do this by dragging the frame while the cursor
is still in its cross/arrowhead form. If it's not *still* in that
form, click the border again to make it so.
5. Right click the frame again and choose Borders and then None. The
*black* border will disappear but a pale grey one will remain. This is
to allow you to see the frame on the screen; it will *not* be printed.
Harold Fuchs
London, England
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Thanks again for taking time to help me learn this. I tried your
suggestions and what it achieved was to make my frame, and the text held
within it, do disappear behind my picture. I may be trying to do the
impossible. I'm attempting to place a frame containing text on top of a
picture without the white background of the frame obscuring the
picture. I found that I could actually embed my picture directly into
my frame. I could then type over it. I was also able to achieve the
same effect by placing a regular text box on top of the original
picture. The thing I guess that I'm wishing for would be a hybrid
between a frame and a text box. I like that I can embed a picture into
a frame and add text, but I also like the ability to use gradients (or
even just have the area menu) and have typing over a picture like you
can with text boxes. Say for example that I have a large picture about
the size of half the page and I want to add some text and a small
picture related to each other over that. Now, I could add a small text
box and a picture separately but then I may spend while orienting them
to each other over the large picture only to decide later that I want to
move them both later. I could go through the same process and take more
time (being a perfectionist and all), but if they could both be within a
frame I just move the frame. That is, if the frame wouldn't leave a big
white rectangle in the middle of my large picture in the background.
Which is what I was trying to ask about. Making the 'white'
background be a 'clear' background.
Okay, I have been fiddling with this as I was typing this email, and
found a stupidly simple way to solve my problem. I changed the
background of my frame from "no fill" to a white fill with transparency
of 100%. Now I'm slapping my forehead going, "duh."
I would still like a way to use the gradients, hatching (okay, the whole
area and line windows) that are available with text boxes with frames as
well. That would be cool in a future release. Perhaps a "text box
frame" that would be a hybrid.
I hope nobody minds my ramblings, but maybe somebody somewhere could
learn from it someday.
-Stephanie
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