Re: [libreoffice-users] making graphics stay where you put them

Bruce,

Your post is very timely. I've been wrestling with a document containing 
15 photographs with captions. I wanted to insert them into the text with 
text wrapping around the pictures. I made numerous attempts and often 
found myself trying to move or resize a picture just a little bit. When 
I tried, the picture suddenly changed to a different page (with either 
paragraph or character anchoring). At one point, I had a "sproingg!!" 
moment and found 6 pictures had jumped to one location and were piled on 
top of each other. I had placed these six images on 3 or 4 different pages.

I finally gave up and reverted to my reliable Atlantis and created a 
separate Appendix document consisting of a single picture on each page. 
I'm sure I could have done this with LO Writer, but Atlantis made the 
whole process so easy that I just used it to get the job done.

When I have a few more minutes, I'll try to recreate both of your 
methods to see how they work. I'll let you know how it works.

Virgil

On 5/21/2014 3:16 PM, Bruce Byfield wrote:
> If you've done much work positioning graphics in text, then you know how
> difficult it can be to make sure that the graphics stay in place. In the past,
> many experts have come up with recommendations about the best settings to use,
> but these suggestions either don't work if you try to export to another format
> or else have been made obsolete by changes to the program over the year.
>
> In preparation for my upcoming book on OpenOffice/LibreOffice, I'm hoping to solve
> this  problem once and for all. Could anyone who is interested reproduce the
> two methods below, then try to break them by copying and pasting, adding text
> around the graphics, and anything else you can think of? I would be very
> interested in hearing results, especially on platforms other than Linux.
>
> Method #1: Right-click on a graphic, and select Picture -> Options -> Protect
> _> Position and Size.
>
> Method #2:
>
> 1. Turn off auto-caption in Tools > Options
>
> 2. Create table with 1 column, 2 rows. Set space above and below. Do not allow
> to splilt across page or column, or keep with next paragraph, do not create
> heading row.
>
> 3. Set space above and below table (multiple of line height)
>
> 4. Place picture in 1st row. If you have trouble placing it in a cell, space
> down in the cell a few times before inserting the picture.
>
> 5. Position picture: either move using alignment or, if you want an
> indentation from the left, adjust from right, subtracting space from the total
> width of the table.
>
> 6. Add caption in second row. If graphic is indented, you will need to create
> a caption paragraph style with an indent.
>
> 7. In table context menu, unselect Table Boundaries. For convenience, you may
> want to unselect only before you print.
>
> Thanks to anyone whose curiosity or need encourages them to join the
> experiment.


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