On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 16:21 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi All, > > I am starting to use OOo Writer to do some documentation for training > manuals. I used M§-Word till now quit expensively for that. It worked > well, till the documents became too large. > > I work mainly with two and three column tables and put text in the left > column and screen-shots & graphics in the right column. The graphics are > 'anchored to character' without wrapping into a table cell. So text and > graphics move together when edits are done above. (side question: can > this graphic anchor be set to 'character' in stead of 'paragraph' as > standard somewhere?) > > Some callout Drawings (like comic balloons) are then used to mark > something transparently with the pointing part stretching from one cell > into another cell of the table. It is anchored to the text in the text > (left hand) cell. > > Sometimes when I am changing the attributes of a single and marked > callout from anchoring to the standard 'Paragraph' to the 'Character' > mode, all the callout graphics loose all position formatting on the page > I am working on. Besides that the graphics inside the tables also loose > their anchors, and all move to the top of the page; i.e. anchoring to > the page for all graphics. I can readjust them again by re-anchoring; > but it wastes a lot of time. The graphics in the tables also 'Arrange' > to the front and all the OOo Drawing-generated graphics 'Arrange' to the > back. This 'fortunately' occur only on the actual page I am working on. > The same behaviour also happens when we sometimes move some graphics > around the table cells. > > After quite a few such disasters, suffered by both me and a colleague, > we need some solution to stop redoing some pages time and time again. > > I am using OOo 2.1 (openSUSE 10.2, Updated on 30.3.2007 from openSUSE > X86_64) and my colleague uses OOo 2.0 (update three weeks ago on a > Novell Boxed SUSE 10.1 X86_64). We have exactly the same problem on two > different systems. > > TIA > > :-) > Al >
No response yet. :-( Another annoying thing that now crops up is that the graphics generated from the Drawing Toolbar disappear when they are reformatted in size or position, sometimes to be found on the first page again. It happens frequently, and is annoying with 20 + page documents! It is as if the drawing anchoring is quite unstable and re-anchors itself for no reason somewhere else, in this case inside tables. :-) Al --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
