[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 127220] New: Please Provide Better Defaults for Placing Pictures in LO Writer

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=127220

            Bug ID: 127220
           Summary: Please Provide Better Defaults for Placing Pictures in
                    LO Writer
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: 6.4.0.0.alpha0+ Master
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: medium
         Component: Writer
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: adalbert.hanssen at gmx.de

This report pertains to LibreOfficeWriter
Version: 6.4.0.0.alpha0+
Build ID: 2bed8af91fc2654b9ed2432f969d32d5741a529b
CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 4.4; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3; 
TinderBox: Linux-rpm_deb-x86_64 at 86-TDF, Branch:master, Time:
2019-08-21_09:30:10
Locale: de-DE (de_DE.UTF-8); UI-Language: en-US
Calc: threaded

When placing pictures into a LO Writer document I often have to tune the
picture hand. That would not be necessary if defaults from the stylesheet would
be applied automatically.

I would like to be able to define that each picture placed into a document
would be automatically

* anchored to paragraph (only for very small pictures, e.g. smaller than 200*35
pixels, a default anchoring as character is meaningful when writing instruction
manuals related to software or similar work),
* without wrapping,
* centred horizontally, aligned to the paragraph text area, vertically to the
beginning of the paragraph's
* I would prefer it if a preset distance to the text above would also be
observed, e.g. 2mm to each side.

All these settings should be configurable through the properties Styles>Frame
Styles>Graphics. Apparently not all settings set there automatically apply to
new pictures placed into the current document with such a style sheet.

Steps to reproduce: 
1. define the preferences according to my settings (unfortunately I found no
item for anchoring to the paragraph).
2. make some screenshot of moderate size.
3. place it three times to a the document with the styles defined in step 1.

Result: The screenshot is placed thee times by side, the spacing margins are
observed. The pictures are pasted anchored to character. I expect them below
each other by default, since Wrapping is off according to my definition in the
stylesheet!

Further I would prefer it if in the properties dialogue for a graphic object in
the tab Type the check mark for Keep ratio would be initially checked
(currently it is off by default. I have heard that this is hard coded.
Presetting it on that would require minimum effort then).

LibreOffice seems to suffer from the same syndrome as Microsoft word: Sometimes
pictures inserted (e.g. pasted) into free text rather than into a table go
“anywhere but not where you want them”. So I often place a table first if I
want to to really control the placement of a picture, especially in large
documents (where the random placement sometimes gets a nightmare). It would be
advisable to automatically place a 1*1 table first if the cursor position is in
free text and not in a table and then place the picture into that automatically
placed 1*1 table. If it could be handled like this, I would prefer if the
border grid for such an automatically placed table is automatically switched
off.

By the way: Are there defined keystrokes to add a column before or after the
current cell if a table or by adding a line above or below the current line.
That would also be very useful for scientific work and for the placement of
pictures to a document.

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