Dan,
It's supposed to be a grouped drawing already, and that's why it's all
the more irritating. I hadn't considered putting the drawing into a
frame, which to me seems like one more unnecessary design element of
unclear purpose, but I'll give it a go ...
thx,
bb
Dan Lewis said this (30/01/2007 12:58 AM):
On Monday 29 January 2007 1:11 am, Bernard Bolch wrote:
I am using OpenOffice 2.1 and finding that (it's generally
outstanding, but ...) in a document of some 9 pages with a number
of inserted graphics including a single drawing shown at the bottom
of the attached page, one element of the drawing persistently
refuses to stay in the place where I put it. I suspect that the
drawing itself is inching its way up and down the page, but I
haven't been able to confirm this.
The element in question is the diagonal arrow on the right, which
should be a symmetrical copy of the one on the left. I suspect that
it was one of the last elements that I added to the diagram, but I
can't be sure of that.
If I open the document in MS Word, and ungroup the diagram,
re-position the arrow where it should be, regroup it and save the
document again, it stays where it should be when re-opened (under
Word 97, at least). Under OpenOffice (2.1), every time I save and
reopen the document after going through the same steps, the
diagram's content "shifts" as shown.
Hope this helps,
Bernard Bolch
Two things I would suggest. First, when you have a number of
elements that you want to stay together, you need to group them. That
way they will remain together.
Secondly, you might want to consider using a frame for you
graphics. Then anchor the graphics to the frame.
Dan
