Re: [libreoffice-users] background images in business cards

Hi Peter,
In the download section at World Label, there are templates for
OpenOffice/LibreOffice. These are table style templates, and they work
beautifully.

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On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 6:25 PM, Peter Hillier-Brook <phb@hbsys.plus.com>
wrote:

> On 21/12/16 22:56, Gary Dale wrote:
> > This is ridiculous. I've just been reading a question from a 2008 (3.2)
> > version of OpenOffice.org that is the same as my current problem. Namely
> > that you can't place images in the background on a business card.
> >
> > I'm using LibreOffice 5.2 (Debian) and when I insert an image, it
> > refuses to go behind the text whether I select Arrange | Send to back or
> > Wrap | wrap through. It will go behind the text if I select Wrap | in
> > background but then it disappears. And no, before you ask, the paragraph
> > fill is set to none.
> >
> > I finally found a setting in Format | Page | Transparency where setting
> > the transparency to 100% worked. Strangely the original setting was 50%
> > which resulted in the background image being hidden completely. A quick
> > experiment revealed that ANY setting other than 100% hid the background
> > image.
> >
> > I have no idea what this "feature" is for but it seems completely
> > unintuitive and in conflict with the paragraph background setting, not
> > to mention the wrap in background feature.
> >
> > So my beef is:
> > 1) Arrange doesn't appear to work on labels,
> > 2) wrap through doesn't appear to work on labels,
> > 3) there seems to be a page background that is in front of any
> > background image,
> > 4) the transparency setting for that page background only has two values
> > - 100% or opaque, and
> > 5) this situation has been around for at least 8 years without being
> fixed.
> > Why can't the developers address these basic problems?
>
> If you use a table for your layout then placing an image in the
> background behaves as you would wish. Sadly LibreOffice uses a
> frame-based layout for labels and that might be where your problem lies.
>
> I do not experience problems with my Avery business card stock using the
> table based approach.
>
> Peter HB
>
>
>
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