Whoops! Wrong mailing list. Sorry for previous post. On 09/04/16 14:43, Brian Barker wrote: > At 08:36 07/04/2016 +1000, Sharon Woodford wrote: >> Whenever i insert a photo into a document, the photo automatically >> goes from vertical to horizontal. > > This is not general behaviour, of course. What sort of document are you > creating? If this is a text document, I don't think Writer even *knows* > how to rotate a picture. > >> The photo is ok ... > > How do you know it is "OK"? Whatever you see on a computer is only a > rendering of something, not the item itself. If you are viewing the > picture on your camera or in some associated application, is its > possible that the picture is always exported in one orientation > (portrait or landscape) but that your camera or application keeps a > record which enables it to display the picture appropriately? Or are you > just used to rotating your camera and expecting OpenOffice to read your > mind? > >> How do i fix this? > > Take your pick: > > o Rotate the picture before you insert it - using either your camera or > its associated software or other graphic processing software. > > o Paste the picture instead into a drawing (OpenOffice Draw) document. > Go to Format | Position and Size... | Rotation (or right-click | > Position and Size... | Rotation, or press F4). Under "Rotation angle", > set Angle to 90 (or perhaps 270) degrees. Copy and paste the result into > your text document. > > At 06:36 08/04/2016 +1000, Sharon Woodford wrote: >> First thing i tried [sc: rotating the photo before inserting it into >> the file]. > > How did you "try" this? If you had genuinely rotated a graphic, the > result would surely have been different. How are you viewing the rotated > photo - again in your camera or its software? > >> There should be a better way! > > See above. > > I trust this helps. > > Brian Barker > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org > >
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