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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