Re: [libreoffice-users] How do I restrict a Writer page not to overwrite part of the background image

On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 1:15 PM, Regina Henschel
<rb.henschel@t-online.de> wrote:
> Set the image as background image of the page and set the page margins so
> that the image is at the correct position. The "Border" tab of the page
> style dialog has a "padding" section. There you can set an additional
> distance between inner edge of the margin area of the page and start of the
> text. This padding restricts the usable area for text.
I tried that, but there's something I don't quite follow and the
borders idea looked great -until I opened the file with Word to see
what it looked like.  after that, it was completely messed up and I
had to start all over.

Why check it with Word?  Because that's what everyone else who will
see this uses.  LO is fabulous and Word is so-so, but so-so x millions
of users vs. the paltry few who use LO takes the cake every time.  (I
wold have used the word "trump," but I'd rather not....)

If i knew how to do this in Word, I would do that, but I'm just not a WP expert.

> There exist no "best" way.
True.

> Other ideas:
> Anchor the image to the header, set it to wrap-through and sent it to
> background. Then adapt the page margins.
Not quite sure what all that means, but I tried using the top and left
sidebar as images, and the "left" sidebar refused to anchor on the
left - when I moved it, it jumped to the right and refused to budge.

> Set the image as background image of the page and set the page margins so
> that the image is at the correct position. Do all your work in frames. For
> text flow to next page use linked frames.
That was what I tried first.  For some reason, when I pasted the
copied text, it kept its own format and splattered all over the left
side column.

I appreciate the input, but I confess, after using LO since it came
out and OO before that, I don't know it well enough for this kind of
fancy work, and I don't have the time to set aside to learn all the
nice features the Writer has.

I just wrote up the doc as a straight text document with nice if
boring formatting.  It's easy to read and doesn't give me headaches.

Maybe someday when I need to get fancier....

Thanks again.  Sorry to have bothered the list.

Mark

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