Kevin McLauchlan wrote:
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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.
Regrettably there is no built-in way to achieve this - which I view as a
program deficiency - but you can obtain results by several methods.
First of all you will have to style your page(s) with no margins to
accommodate your full page graphic and then:
1 Use a frame on each page, with its width set to how you want your
margins to be realised, or
2 Create a paragraph style with appropriate left and right indents to
simulate your margins. If this style is your default you can then create
any other necessary styles as inheritors so as to maintain the
indentation, or
3 You could create a single cell table that is allowed to break over
page boundaries, again with a width sufficient to simulate your margins.
It's horses for courses, but my preference would probably be 2 and it is
a good demonstrator for the use of styles, rather than manual formatting.
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Peter HB
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