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 -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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
