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

On 11/8/13 10:38 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
> True.  Writer is better than Word for this but mainly when using the
> native ODF format rather then the variable MS ones.
>
> Draw is better than Writer.
>
> With either you can use
> Alt   keyboard-arrows
>
> to move images around with more finesse.  i use the keyboard arrows to
> get images fairly close to where i want (or drag them to roughly the
> correct position with the mouse) and then use the keyboard arrows
> while pressing the "Alt" key.
>
> Also i generally prefer to "Anchor to page" although there are many
> occasions when one of the other options is more suitable.  Note that
> MS Office doesn't have the "Anchor to page" as an option and i don't
> think their format supports it.

Yes, it does, but it's not called "Anchoring".  It's called Picture 
Position, and in Word 2007, it's in the Advanced Layout dialogue.  I 
used it all the time in 2003.

> Scribus has a reputation for being a bit too geeky but i think their
> latest release has turned that around.  LaTeX is still geeky but might
> well be worth taking the time to learn.  One of my colleagues was
> getting great results with Scribus after just 10mins of fiddling.

If you want to try LaTeX, I suggest trying out the GUI interface for it, 
called LyX.  I've got it installed, but haven't tried it yet.

> Over this last week i have been trying out Inkscape for poster design.
>   So i didn't really need a DTP as such, except that my company's idea
> of "poster" falls into the marketing idea of "tl;dr" and everyone else
> translates into being a big yawn.  Inkscape was great and had some
> neat tricks for handling text.  It allowed me to sort out kerning and
> dynamically see the effects of increasing line-spacing, spacing
> between letters, pushing super or sub-scripts up or down and all sorts
> of good stuff.
>
> I'm going to try Scribus soon though with a view to doing my company's
> newsletter in it at the end of the month.  I've been using Writer for
> it for the past couple of years and people have commented about the
> vast improvement in quality and the increase in speed of pulling it
> together.  With Word it used to take a couple of weeks and only
> certain machines could handle it.  On Writer it takes a day or even
> less and even the slowest machines can handle it.
>
> Regards from
> Tom  :)
>
>
> On 8 November 2013 06:45, Urmas <davian818@gmail.com> wrote:
> > "Adam Tauno Williams":
> >
> > > 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.
> >
> >
> > I'm afraid only DTP applications can ensure adequate placement of drawings.
> > There's just no way to lay them out automatically so result would look nice.
> >
> >
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