[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 40879] New: Float tables/images/frames across page boundaries

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40879

           Summary: Float tables/images/frames across page boundaries
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: Writer
        AssignedTo: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: daniel at tamm-tamm.de


This is a very old feature request raised for OpenOffice in the year 2004
(http://openoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=35545).

1. Insert a big picture into your text document at a place where it will not
fit in the remaining white space of the current page.
2. Enter some text after the picture.

Actual result:
The picture is placed on the next page. Subsequent text is placed after the
picture. The page before the picture has a lot of white space.

Expected result:
Often, people want to avoid large white spaces. The picture should have a
parameter allowing subsequent text to be pulled to the page before the picture.
This is known as floating objects in other environments such as LaTeX and
applies even to other objects such as tables.

The dialog for pictures and frames features a check box "Follow text flow"
whose functionality is quite unclear. Maybe it is aimed at allowing floating
objects (as proposed as a workaround in comment 7 of the OOo bug report), but
this does not work for me.

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