[libreoffice-users] Re: Impress - How to disable the auto-resize features?

Am 20.06.2011, 02:15 Uhr, schrieb Thomas Jung  
<thomas.jung@public-files.de>:

> Hello,
>
> how can I disable all this automatic "rescaling" features
> in Impress?

Right-click on the frame, then "position and size" (German: Position und  
Größe), then in the "Position and Size" tab uncheck the "fit height to  
text" checkbox ("Höhe an Text anpassen").

> If I try to resize the text/content-box in the master and would
> like to "snap" that textbox to the grid, Impress auto resize the
> height, even if I only try to resize the width.
> It's really annoying and would like to disable such a feature

The idea is that the text should still fit into the box, so as long as  
"Höhe an Text anpassen" is checked, it will wrap the text and then change  
the height of the box so it still fits in there.
Sometimes this is not obvious because you may have some empty lines under  
the actual text, and the box fits those, too. Usually, if you have no  
empty lines and there's enough space for the text, the height will not  
change automatically if you change width.

Actually, it's slightly more complicated: If you make a box of some  
height, that is stored as the intended height. The box will not become  
smaller than that from automatic dscaling, but will expand if the text  
doesn't fit in (either because you typed too much or you decreased the  
width). If you have such an automatically expanded box and remove text or  
increase the width, the height will shrink back to the value you specified  
in the beginning. You can change the intended height any time by just  
changing it manually. It will then use the newly set dimemsions as  
standard (but of course will expand if necessary).

All this is of course unless you disable the option to automatically scale  
it, in which case the text may not always fit inside the box, which can  
look stupid. So you'll have to take care of that yourself.

... I hope that was coherent enough :)

 Zak


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