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

On 05/21/2014 03:16 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.
     I don't have problems with placing graphics where I want them, but 
then again, I do not wrap any text around them. Perhaps this is the problem?
     I have a file created by LibreOffice 4.1.6 and 4.2.4 that has 73 
graphics and 4 images. I have no problem keeping them where I put them. 
The name of the file is BG4204Forms20140501.odt. It is available for 
download athttps://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation. You will 
need to scroll down to the Base Guide section of this web page.
     Another thought that may or may not have anything to do with the 
problem. These are the settings that I use in Tools > Options > Memory:
Undo steps: 20, Graphics cache Use for LibreOffice 252MB, Memory per 
object 2.0MB, Remove from memory after 1:00 (h:m), number of objects 252.
     When inserting a graphic, the following steps are used:
1. Create a paragraph style for the frames with the alignment centered 
and any other style properties needed.
2 Create an empty paragraph.
3. Create a frame anchored to this paragraph
4. Anchor the frame as a character
5. Insert the caption in the bottom of the frame.
6. Insert the graphic in the frame
7. Anchor the graphic as a character).

     Over the past 10 years or more I have been doing this without any 
problems in any of the chapters I have written for the ODFAuthors group.
     There is one more thing that I do that automates several of these 
steps: I use AutoText. It creates the frame with steps 1, 3, 4, and 5. 
This just leaves me to create an empty paragraph, insert the graphic, 
and anchor it as a character. In addition, I also resize the frame if I 
think it needs it.

--Dan

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