Re: [libreoffice-users] Image In Text Box?

Hi Dave,

Dave schrieb:
> Hi Regina,
>
> On 11.10.2016 16:40, Regina Henschel wrote:
> > Hi Dave,
> >
> > Dave schrieb:
> > > Hi Folks,
> > >
> > > Is there a way of inserting or pasting an image into a Writer text box,
> > > similar to images in an MS Word text box.?
> >
> > Is there a special reason why you want to use a text box instead of a
> > frame?
> >
> > Kind regards
> > Regina
>
> OK! More information. I am in the process of migrating a small
> organisation from MSO and have been successfully fielding all the usual
> "what about" questions. However, there is one individual (there is
> always at least one) who is pushing hard against the migration.
>
> The subject line of this email was a question I was asked and my
> response was much the same as yours. The counter argument then was "You
> can multiple select and auto-align text boxes in Word, but you cannot do
> that with Writer frames."

Which LibreOffice version do you use? LibreOffice is going to get a new 
feature: A text box in a custom shape. It gets improved over time and in 
the current build from master 
(http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/master/) it is already usable.

You can draw a custom shape rectangle and from the context menu add a 
"text box". Double click the rectangle to go into the text box. You 
should be able to enter some text. This text box has features similar to 
a frame and you can insert an image into it (and table and equation 
e.g.). Of cause you need to adapt the rectangle size to its content. Set 
the background color and the line to "none" to make the rectangle itself 
invisible.

This object is a draw-object and therefore you can multiselect it 
together with other such objects and align them.

Create a docx document in Word, not in compatibility mode but in OOXML 
mode, and insert two text fields, which are linked. Fill them and style 
them. Then open this document in current LibreOffice. You will notice, 
that the text fields from Word are converted to a shape with text box. 
And even the flow of the text from the text box in one shape to the text 
box in the other shape works.

The UI in LO is not finished in regard to this feature, and therefore 
creating such things from scratch has some quirks. But it shows the 
direction of the development in LibreOffice and might help you to 
convince this person.

This is an extension feature of LibreOffice and not available in strict 
ODF 1.2. But if they don't care about ODF, they can use the feature already.

Kind regards
Regina




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