In a message dated 2009.11.11 07:02 -0500, Michele Zarri wrote:
Is there a good tutorial/explanation somewhere on how to place photos/graphic
items in a document so that they:
a) Move smoothly with the text to which they are attached (as document gets
edited/repaginated).
b) Keep text from sliding under their edges and being obscured.
c) Don't go sillly when the text gets pushed across a page boundary.
d) Behave sensibly when anchored to a paragraph in a table cell, even when the
table cell is pushed to the bottom of a page or shifts to the following page.
Welcome to one of the most annoying aspect of OOo (or of MS Office Word). What
OOo is missing is the capability of floating a picture in the way LaTeX does.
You may want to vote for this fairly old issue (opened in 2004!):
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=35545
You may find some useful information here:
http://www.oooauthors.org/english/userguide3/writer3/WG3_published/0208WG3-WorkingWithGraphics.odt/view
But I am afraid that the "silly" things you do is what every user does. I
normally leave the placing of the pictures where I want them to be as the very last task
and tend to use anchoring to the page without wrapping.
OOo on the other hand is not meant to replace professional desktop publishing
applications so there is a bit of compromising to accept.
Since WordPerfect has been handling this problem perfectly for at least
20 years [yes, I know that Word has not], I'm reluctant to say it's
beyond what one may expect of a word processor, and so will join you in
voting for issue 35545. Thanks for mentioning it.
John
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