Re: [libreoffice-users] Frames v text boxes

On 10/11/15 04:52, Brian Barker wrote:
> At 13:41 09/11/2015 +0000, Malcolm Moore wrote:
> > Is there a guide ( or knowledgeable person ) that can show the pros
> > and cons of frames v text boxes.
.....
> A knowledgeable person? That's probably not me, but I'd suggest that
> text objects may be useful for the odd piece of disconnected, displayed
> text, whereas frames are a much more flexible way to handle blocks of
> text. In particular:
>
> o Text objects can be rotated, whereas frames appear not to have this
> facility.

The interesting thing is that internally text boxes and frames appear to 
be pretty well identical in structure. Each appears implemented in the 
xml as a "<draw:text>" item within a "<draw:frame>" item.

However, the frame's frame has a style derived from the "Frame" style; 
the text box's frame's style has no parent. A quick bit of editing on 
content.xml to graft in the text box's style name (gr1 in my case) 
instead of the frame's style (fr1) converts the frame into a text box -- 
no outside border, and rotations allowed. I have no idea what it might 
be about the "Frame" style that disallows rotation. (Or, indeed, why 
anyone would wish to disallow this in the first place.)

I'm sure this must be documented somewhere. All I've done is look at 
content.xml, and potter a bit for a few minutes, so may well be missing 
something important.


--
Mike Scott
Harlow, Essex, England

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