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title="UNCONFIRMED - Please Provide Better Defaults for Placing Pictures in LO Writer"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=127220">127220</a>
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<th>Summary</th>
<td>Please Provide Better Defaults for Placing Pictures in LO Writer
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<th>Product</th>
<td>LibreOffice
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<th>Version</th>
<td>6.4.0.0.alpha0+ Master
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<td>All
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<th>OS</th>
<td>All
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<th>Status</th>
<td>UNCONFIRMED
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<th>Severity</th>
<td>enhancement
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<th>Priority</th>
<td>medium
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<th>Component</th>
<td>Writer
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<th>Assignee</th>
<td>libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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<th>Reporter</th>
<td>adalbert.hanssen@gmx.de
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<pre>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@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.</pre>
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