> > 1. Pasting an image requires saving and reloading the .odt-file to enable > > the > > buttons and allow any rotation. > I can not reproduce this in Linux - it works fine if I copy/paste or > drag&drop a > Jpeg image. What is the type of image? Can you also check in "Compress > Graphic.." dialog (in LO 4.1). I will try this tomorrow in Windows - maybe > the problem is windows specific.
See attachment above. Like you say, drag-drop or copy/paste of jpg or png files on disk works very well. I wasn't even aware of this option. A pasted screenshot, however is reported as file type "Unknown" in the Compress Graphic dialog (see attachment). After saving and reloading the writer file, the pasted screenshot is reported as being PNG and can be rotated. Now, I do not really think this is a big weakness. In my experience, I can not really think of a good reason for rotating a screenshot at all. Cropping, however, is something that happens all the time in my line of work. > One open item is also: > > - If Rotation is not possible, show a hint, even in the menu. > I really do not know how to easily do that. Toolbars, menus are hardcoded - it > is really hard to show any additional hints. The only way I can think of right > now is to leave buttons and menu items enabled but show a dialog when it is > not > possible but I think this is lame. If anyone knows of an example where such > hint is used in LO, then let me know. Not to worry. Simply disabling the buttons rotation buttons is more than good enough for a hint. I was thinking of the case where rotation is not possible until the user takes some additional action, like saving and reloading the document. And in such a case, disabling the rotation buttons would be the correct feedback along with a tooltip on each disabled button which states something like: "Please save and reload the document to allow rotating the image." As stated above, this might only occur when a user pastes a screenshot. Also, this issue will be moot if the "uncompressed" format is supported in the future. > 2. Using any of the graphic filters also instantly disables the > rotate-button and the file needs saving and reloading before the buttons are > enabled again. "When you use a graphic filter the image becomes uncompressed - this is however not a format that is currently supported. When you later save the document, the image is compressed to PNG - this is why it works when you reload. I will add uncompressed and some other image formats in the next step." Sounds good. I've almost never used the filters but adding handling of the uncompressed images will also solve the screenshot pasting issue. >> 3. Vertical or horizontal flipping is instantly reset when any of the rotate >> buttons are pressed. (Minor) >Hm.. this one is interesting. I have to see what is going on here. I can't remember the last time using any of the flip buttons but, of course, flipping may be very useful to many. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to libreoffice in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/87220 Title: [Upstream] Wishlist: Add rotation of images to writer Status in LibreOffice Productivity Suite: In Progress Status in The OpenOffice.org Suite: Unknown Status in “libreoffice” package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Status in “openoffice.org” package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Bug description: Binary package hint: openoffice.org Currently when a picture is imported, it is impossible to rotate it. This makes the task of importing images/graphs into OpenOffice unneccessarily difficult and complex. Since OpenOffice already has a gazillion of options about images, it's quite amazing that it cannot rotate them. WORKAROUND: Use WriterRotationTool http://extensions.openoffice.org/en/project/WriterRotationTool . To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/df-libreoffice/+bug/87220/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
