Brian and Regina, Thank you both for your responses. Both methods worked (Regina's had the advantage of not needing a new document) but both also produced an unexpected (and undesired) blurring of the boundary between two colors:
Any further suggestions how to produce a sharp boundary? Thanks again in any event, Jonathan -----Original Message----- From: Brian Barker <b.m.bar...@btinternet.com> To: users <users@global.libreoffice.org> Sent: Sat, Feb 9, 2013 11:38 am Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Custom Bitmap for Chart Wall? At 10:24 09/02/2013 -0500, Jonathan Levi wrote: >I'd like to fill the wall of my chart with a custom bitmap of my own >creation. But when I double-click my chart, then click menu Format > >Chart Wall... > "Area" tab > "Bitmap" popup item > Blank pattern, I >can't edit this pattern, even though LibreOffice Help entry >"bitmaps;patterns" seems to suggest that I should be able to. Any suggestions? o Open a (new) drawing (Draw) document. o Go to Format | Area... | Bitmaps. o Here you can import an existing bitmap from a file or create and name a new one. Your new bitmap will now be available in Calc, but you may have to close and reopen your spreadsheet document before it appears. I trust this helps. Brian Barker -- -----Original Message----- From: Regina Henschel <rb.hensc...@t-online.de> To: users <users@global.libreoffice.org> Sent: Sat, Feb 9, 2013 11:37 am Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Custom Bitmap for Chart Wall? Hi Jonathan, Jonathan Levi schrieb: > I'd like to fill the wall of my chart with a custom bitmap of my own creation. But when I double-click my chart, then click menu Format > Chart Wall... > "Area" tab > "Bitmap" popup item > Blank pattern, I can't edit this pattern, even though LibreOffice Help entry "bitmaps;patterns" seems to suggest that I should be able to. Any suggestions? Try this: 1. In chart editing mode draw a rectangle into the chart. If the drawing toolbar is not visible, you can activate it via View -> Toolbars. 2. From the context menu of the rectangle choose the item 'area'. 3. On the dialog page 'Bitmaps' click on 'import' and select the picture of your choice or use the pattern editor to make some simple dot-bitmap. 4. If you want this bitmap for further documents, you have to save the bitmap list. 5. Close the dialog. 6. Delete the rectangle. Now you should have your own bitmap in the bitmap list. Kind regards Regina -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
