Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing image from LO Draw (ODG) to Writer

** Reply to message from Tom Davies <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk> on Sun, 21 Jul
2013 11:21:58 +0100 (BST)

Hi Tom,

I appreciate your thoughts. I'm sure I don't understand all the integration
of the modules. I don't have an internet connection right now so can't look
at the suggested resource, but will when I can.

Using the LO help file and trying all the menu options I can find I don't see
any way to put page breaks in a draw image. I can select different parts of
the image, but I see nothing regarding page breaks and the cursor will not
stop anywhere alongside the image to allow one to select a page break even if
there was an menu item for it as there is in Writer. Could you explain in
more detail how I would go about doing this? The best I could get from the
Help was to do it as I did with selecting portions and copy/paste into Writer.

Cliff

> Hi :)
> You are not yet thinking in the LO way.  The modules/apps (such as Writer,
> Calc, Draw) are not separate programs in the way you seem to be trying to use
> them.  This is very different from MS Office.  With MSO if you open 2 of the
> apps then you pretty much double the amount of space taken up in Ram and
> double the resources used.  
>
> Why not just create the page-breaks in Draw?  Even if you do get the Pdf into
> Writer and save as an Odt rather than an Odg it still doesn't become any more
> editable than it is as an Odg.  Pdf is made to be uneditable.  That is part
> of it's aim.  It's because it is uneditable that it appears the same on every
> machine or printer in any OS or program that displays Pdf, or at least that's
> the aim.  
>
> You might find it helpful to skim quickly through the "Getting Started Guide"
> and see if some things in there catch your eye
> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications
> Regards from 
> Tom :)  
>
>
>
>
>
> > ________________________________
> > From: Cliff Scott <cfly@intergate.com>
> > To: users@global.libreoffice.org 
> > Sent: Sunday, 21 July 2013, 3:54
> > Subject: [libreoffice-users] Importing image from LO Draw (ODG) to Writer
> >
> >
> > I had a one page PDF file that I wanted to break into multiple pages. Opening
> > the PDF with LO resulted in LO Draw opening with the file nicely displayed. I
> > saved it as a draw image (odg) and then expected to be able to directly
> > import it to Writer. Unfortunately I could find no way to do that. Even using
> > copy/paste resulted in a black page since the image was larger than one page.
> > My hope was to have it come in and naturally break into multiple pages. As a
> > last resort I selected a portion of the image in Draw , copy/pasted it into
> > Writer, inserted a page break then repeated the action on multiple pages
> > until the entire image was in Writer. It seems as if there must be a more
> > elegant way to do this. I have never used Draw before so I'm just trying to
> > figure out the details. To be useful it seems as if there must be an easy way
> > to move from Draw into Writer or Calc. Can someone help me see what I'm
> > missing?  Thanks.
> >
> > Cliff

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