[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 16:21 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi All,
I am starting to use OOo Writer to do some documentation for training
manuals. I used M§-Word till now quit expensively for that. It worked
well, till the documents became too large.
I work mainly with two and three column tables and put text in the left
column and screen-shots & graphics in the right column. The graphics are
'anchored to character' without wrapping into a table cell. So text and
graphics move together when edits are done above. (side question: can
this graphic anchor be set to 'character' in stead of 'paragraph' as
standard somewhere?)
The default frame style is called "Graphics" and you could edit this to reflect
your requirements, or create another frame style specific to your document.
Some callout Drawings (like comic balloons) are then used to mark
something transparently with the pointing part stretching from one cell
into another cell of the table. It is anchored to the text in the text
(left hand) cell.
Sometimes when I am changing the attributes of a single and marked
callout from anchoring to the standard 'Paragraph' to the 'Character'
mode, all the callout graphics loose all position formatting on the page
I am working on. Besides that the graphics inside the tables also loose
their anchors, and all move to the top of the page; i.e. anchoring to
the page for all graphics. I can readjust them again by re-anchoring;
but it wastes a lot of time. The graphics in the tables also 'Arrange'
to the front and all the OOo Drawing-generated graphics 'Arrange' to the
back. This 'fortunately' occur only on the actual page I am working on.
The same behaviour also happens when we sometimes move some graphics
around the table cells.
After quite a few such disasters, suffered by both me and a colleague,
we need some solution to stop redoing some pages time and time again.
I am using OOo 2.1 (openSUSE 10.2, Updated on 30.3.2007 from openSUSE
X86_64) and my colleague uses OOo 2.0 (update three weeks ago on a
Novell Boxed SUSE 10.1 X86_64). We have exactly the same problem on two
different systems.
TIA
:-)
Al
No response yet. :-(
Another annoying thing that now crops up is that the graphics generated
from the Drawing Toolbar disappear when they are reformatted in size or
position, sometimes to be found on the first page again. It happens
frequently, and is annoying with 20 + page documents!
It is as if the drawing anchoring is quite unstable and re-anchors
itself for no reason somewhere else, in this case inside tables.
It looks as if you have encountered a bug, and the best way forward would be to
raise an issue accurately describing the symptoms. It would also be invaluable
if you attached a sample file, or files that exhibit the problem. Sorry to be of
no more help :-(
Regards
Peter HB
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