At 13:48 08/03/2019 -0500, Linda Hull wrote:
I'm on Windows 7 and using Open Office 4.1.2.
I'm wondering why you are using an older version of OpenOffice. There
is seldom any reason to do this with free software.
I want to make an image with text I write, a nice background, with
some space the same color as the background, around the writing so
it looks professional.
Remember that many (most?) printers cannot print to the very edge of
the paper, so you need some blank margins anyway. If, as you suggest,
you are going to share this document, remember also that the margins
need to be big enough for your consumers' printers, not just yours.
So far, in OO Writer, I got the background, and my text, but the
text runs from margin to margin, and so does the color, but the
margin areas are white.
If you want no white margins at all, you can set the page margins to
zero, but remember printer limitations as above.
How can I get the text to be smaller than the colored area?
There are various ways to do this.
o You could set paragraph margins appropriately on your text - on the
Indents & Spacing tab of the Paragraph dialogue. Setting Before,
After, Above, and Below will achieve what you need. The problem with
this approach is that if your text has multiple paragraphs they will
also be additionally spaced by the Above and Below settings. You may
be able to work around this by spacing your text paragraphs using
line breaks instead - using Shift+Enter - though this is rather messy.
o Better would be to insert a Frame (Insert | Frame...). Adjust the
size and position of the frame to allow the margins you require
inside the real page margins that limit your background image. Enter
your text inside the frame. To prevent the frame simply obscuring
your background image, you will need to adjust the frame's properties
on the Background tab of the Frame dialogue. Choose Colour for "As",
select any colour for "Background colour". White (at top left) will
do, but note that this is *not* the same as No Fill! Adjust
Transparency here to 100%; you can type into the box or use the up
and down arrows as a thumbwheel to adjust the value.
I've followed directions from: [...]
I'd like to be able to use: [...] (Adjust the intensity)
Remember that these are from a newspaper publisher, not OpenOffice
itself - though they do seem to be accurate.
The steps for this are based in
http://www.openoffice.org/documentation/manuals/oooauthors/Working_with_Graphics.pdf
It isn't up to date or doesn't match my Apache Open Office. My
arrangement for these steps is different.
Indeed so (2005; for version 1).
And the "View," "Toolbars" and "Picture" toolbar doesn't show any numbers.
I hope it does.
(Could this be because the computer is using a lot of ram for FireFox?)
Nope.
I'd really like to be able to lower the intensity of an image to
make the text stand out more, but I need the directions to be for
the Apache Open Office version that I'm using. Is there a help page
that is newer, please?
Chapter 8 of the Writer Guide, "Working with Graphics", is what you need. See
https://wiki.openoffice.org/w/images/2/2b/0208WG33-WorkingWithGraphics.pdf .
If you select your background image, the Picture toolbar should
appear automatically. By default it floats, but you may have docked
it alongside your other toolbars. If it doesn't appear, it will do so
if you go to View | Toolbars > | Picture, as you suggest. Towards the
right of the Picture toolbar, you should see an icon of a wineglass
with an associated box to its right, probably defaulting to "0%". (If
you hover your mouse over them you should see the Help Tip
"Transparency".) You need to increase this value to reduce the
intensity of your background image. Again, you can type into the box
or use the thumbwheel arrows to adjust the value.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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