I've been using OOo for a while, but only on existing documents or with templates that "just worked". Now I have to create a different type of document and I've hit a stumbling point.
I have a graphic that's supposed to be the background of the first page in a technote. It should extend the full width and the full height of the page. That is, no margins. The top and bottom are colorful, but the middle bit is pale to accomodate text overlaying it. Text should flow over the graphic, with the graphic showing through, but the text SHOULD have margins. That is, text should not go all the way to the edges of the page as the graphic does (should...). Is there a way to do this via the page settings, or must I set the page with no margins and then somehow arrange all the paragraph formats to have the desired indents to fake the desired margins? When I set the page margins for the text, OOo shrinks the graphic to fit those margins. If this was FrameMaker, I'd know how to do it (just plaster the the graphic on the background page and set the text frame over it to the desired width and height). I tried using a text frame in OOo 2.1, and it gave me the right dimensions and placement for text, in front of the graphic, but my text is longer than one page (longer than one frame) and I haven't discovered how to make OOo generate new pages and frames to continue the text flow. Probably there's a way, but the terms that I've tried are not in the index of the Help. What's the proper approach here? There's about four pages worth of text. I want the big graphic as the background of the first page. The next several pages should have similar text margins, but don't need a background graphic. Kevin The information contained in this electronic mail transmission may be privileged and confidential, and therefore, protected from disclosure. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to this message and deleting it from your computer without copying or disclosing it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
