Re: [libreoffice-users] Flipping a figure 90 degree

Hi Johnny,

Johnny Rosenberg schrieb:
> lör 2011-04-09 klockan 15:45 +0800 skrev Jet Ong:
> > As far as I know, LibreOffice does not allow this feature. Thus, I will have
> > to flip my figure in the Photo Viewer,
> > save it and open it in Libreoffice. My figure will then become flipped in
> > the LibreOffice page.
> >
> > The question now is how do I adjust my caption to remain just above the
> > table?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Jet
>
> Unbelievable! That's one of the most common things to do with a picture,
> isn't it? You can easily do it in Draw and then copy it into Writer, but
> that's also an extra step.

Why does a word processor needs the capabilities of an image editing 
program?

> I wonder why things behave differently in different pieces of the suite.
> They talk about how great it is with object oriented programming and
> that everything so easily can be made to behave the same way everywhere
> and things like that. What happened to that? Seems like they tried to
> invent the wheel at least twice here…

They behave differently because they are indeed different. The picture 
inserted in Writer is a GraphicObject (a SwXTextGraphicObject) and the 
picture copied from Draw is a Shape (a SwXShape).

They are designed to behave different. With a GraphicObject you get: 
ImageMap, Contour, Graphic Style. With a Shape you get rotation and 
shearing.

> If Writer just inherited all Draw stuff, then they could drop Draw
> completely, couldn't they?

A Writer-document has an associated drawing page, where all the drawing 
objects lay. But that is not the essential part of a Writer-Document. 
And the GraphicObject does not belong to the drawing page.

Because a GraphicObject is very different from a Shape rotation needs to 
be implemented separately. LO does not have its own issue for it, in OOo 
it is the enhancement request
 http://openoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3545

Is it really to much effort to use an image editing program to rotate 
the picture before inserting it in the Writer document?

Kind regards
Regina




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