In a message dated 2010.08.26 11:26 -0500, Barbara Duprey wrote:
... [after inserting a frame, either before or after selecting a
Frame style], Going to the Paragraph styles, we see that the text
is already styled as "Frame contents". What does /that/ mean?
There are other styles like that, too -- but they're useful for
establishing a style for all the objects of that type that are not
explicitly given a style. And basing a new style on one of them can
make later changes easier to apply across a document.
Ah, yes: the "Special Styles" category of Paragraph styles (a category
found only in Paragraph styles). I had forgotten about that category,
which the Help also calls "Special Region Styles", because each is
associated with a particular region type. [After your reminder, I was
tempted to fork a new thread about Special Styles and linked style
types, because there's something fundamental I'm trying to understand
about the construction of OO styles - but decided the topic is just too
big to pursue right now. ;-) ]
... More fundamental than the *process* of making a frame-based
watermark is the question of whether it *works* as a watermark:
Since it is not attached to a Page style, it is not repeated on
subsequent pages. ...
I think you could anchor the frame in a header or footer, then
position it as desired.
That's an intriguing idea, but I do not see a clean way to do it (which
would of course be part of the process of making a frame-based
watermark). That probably reflects my ignorance about details of using
Writer. Assuming we can accept a seemingly complex and lengthy process
to make a watermark, have you thought about how to do those last steps
of the process?
John
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