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Hi :)
Wow!  The hap seemed to make that quite complicated in Gimp.  I just 
1.  right-click on the layer in the side-panel to "Add Alpha Channel".  
2.  then up to the top-menu-bar to click on "Select" and "Select by colour"
3.  click on the colour i want to "see through"
4.  hit the delete key (well, press it softly really)
5.  save in a format that does support transparencies, such as NOT jpg

That would get the insides of all the boxes/fields in one go.  


Tbh i thought there was a way of setting an image to be at the very back or even as a water-mark.  
Draw might be better for this and then create text-boxes over the parts of the image you want to 
write on.  

So, i am not quite sure why we went the Gimp route but i like using Gimp and it's good to learn new 
tricks with it.  
Regards from 
Tom :)  






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From: howellsilverman <howellsilverman@gmail.com>
To: users@global.libreoffice.org 
Sent: Friday, 21 June 2013, 16:12
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Database field on top of PDF document


Ok thanks. I tried that. It worked.  You need a form with a transparent
background which took a little work with gimp (
http://www.ehow.com/how_8422694_remove-white-gimp.html).  Then I used a
table to place the fields where I wanted them..  So I can see a method to
get this handled.

What would be much easier would be to be able to make the image a
background layer or a watermark (like microsoft), overlay it with a
transparent table and then place the fields to match the form. I wouldn't
have to go the extra step of making the background transparent.  If you
have a lot of fields, it's a lot of clicking.

The other way I could do it is have a blank form, place the fields on a
transparent table for precise locations, then overprint the hardcopy form.
Then I would have to scan the completed document.  Either way - there are
some extra steps to get what I want, but it can be done.

So... Thanks.


On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 3:55 AM, Alexander Thurgood [via Document
Foundation Mail Archive] <ml-node+s969070n4062428h83@n3.nabble.com> wrote:

Le 21/06/2013 05:23, howellsilverman a écrit :

Hi,


When I try to move a database field on top of an  image (or PDF object),
writer won't let me place it on top of the image.

Is there a way to put a database field on top of an image?

If you try to insert the fields by dragging and dropping on top of the
image, then this will only work for the first field, and only on the
first line of the page, and even then only if the image is arranged in
the background apparently, at least from my testing - in other words,
completely useless.

If however, you drag and drop your fields first, and then insert the
image and set that to wrap in background, you can  put your fields more
or less wherever you want.


Alex


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