Re: [libreoffice-users] Keeping Pictures in Place with Writer

On 13/06/11 9:03 AM, Jean-Francois Nifenecker wrote:
> Le 12/06/2011 22:26, Barbara Tobias a écrit :
> > I am using LibreOffice 3.2.2 and Ubuntu 11.4.
> >
> > This is the fourth year I have been using Writer to create a guidebook
> > for an annual artists tour.  It has lots of photos, maps, and such that
> > must be precisely placed.
> >
> > In the past I have had a little difficulty with things not staying put,
> > but this year every time I add or delete pictures, all the pictures and
> > maps in the remaining pages of the book move to the wrong pages.
> >
> > I have tried anchoring pictures to page and to paragraph, but that does
> > not seem to affect this problem.  What else could I be doing wrong?
>
> IMO anchoring is best set at characters or as characters. Once the 
> picture is set, then protect it against unwanted events (options tab).
>
> Anchoring to page is somewhat deconcerting as the user often thinks 
> the picture won't move from its page and finds that, indeed, it does 
> when a new page is inserted before (resp. deleted).
>
> In fact, I've always wondered why the default anchoring setting is to 
> paragraph. A means to set it to character would be a good thing, IMO.
I think anchoring to paragraph would be fine if it worked properly. The 
problem is(/was) that the image won't stay anchored to the paragraph but 
flips around different paragraphs. A bug got filed for this some time 
ago. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34125
To me Anchor to paragraph should be the same as anchor to character 
(being the first in the paragraph). LO 3.4.0. is not fixed but seemed 
slightly better with anchor to paragraph and Anchor to character moves 
all over the place so is not anchored at all.
steve

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