On 19 Feb 2008 at 7:34, Brian Barker wrote: > At 18:47 18/02/2008 -0800, Rob Tanner wrote: > >I've taken over a monthly newsletter and one regular feature has a > >masthead (if that's the right term) that includes a graphic and a > >short bit of fontwork text. Whenever I move the heading around I > >have to manually reposition the two components with respect to each > >other. I've tried to select them together (select one and hold down > >the shift key to select the other) but I can't seem to succeed at > >that. Is there any way to group the graphic and the fontwork text > >so that they become a single object? > > Are you working in text (Writer) document? Like you, I cannot see > how to group items there. ...
They can't, which is /highly/ irritating. And leads to something I've been wondering about lately, because I keep getting stuck like this: Why are there different applications 'writer' and 'draw' at all, apart from historical development? FTLOM I can't see why they need to remain separate. As things stand, we have writer - which has crippled graphics facilities (like the 'no group' business in this thread - which means no alignment possible for example) and draw - which has crippled text facilities (eg no flow between text boxes and a much reduced set of text fields for use, both for no obvious reason). So why shouldn't/can't they be merged? -- http://www.scottsonline.org.uk lists incoming sites blocked because of spam [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike Scott, Harlow, Essex, England --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
