Re: [libreoffice-users] HELP: Frame placement, wrapping, and collision

You may have some control if you change how your anchor your frames. For 
example, if you anchor as a character, but then you cannot move it 
around at will.

On 11/07/2013 06:47 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> Version: 4.1.2.3:build410m0
>
> I have a document with many examples and illustrations.  These are
> typically in frames.  I also place tables in frames.
>
> But frames seem to 'flow' *very* poorly.  They may often even end up
> overlapping each other and then their placement must be manually
> tweaked.  This is very frustrating in a 500+ page document.
>
> Frames seem to wrap with *only* the body text of the document and do
> nothing to avoid colliding with each other.
>
> Is there some option I am not setting or some style/technique to get
> frames to try to fit naturally into the flow of the text.  Anchor to
> paragraph is my typical method; but it seems I really need an
> anchor-to-paragraph-getting-as-close-as-you-can option without either
> crashing into other frames or leaving a blank inch and a half on the
> previous page.

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Andrew Pitonyak
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