Peter Hillier-Brook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] responded:
> > 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 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. Drat. Basically you're saying what I said in my last (quoted) paragraph. That's ugly. Does anybody else have suggestions? Is there a way to specify page margins in the normal way, then specify a background image that "bleeds" outside those margins? (To the edge of the page) This seems _almost_ like something that I should be able to do with a watermark image, except that I don't seem to have enough control over the image. So, how is this better functionality than Word? It's not like we're trying to beat a neat feature from Word 2007. I've been doing this (company style, inherited from others) with Word 97 and then Word 2000 for several years now. I almost get the feeling I'm not asking the question correctly or I'm failing to get the attention of folks who know how to do it in OOo. (No offense intended.) 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]
