Le 24/10/2020 à 21:38, William Lee Valentine a écrit :
In response to Mr. Olsson's recent complaint about combining graphics
with text in Writer: my documentation for Writer (distinct from that
provided with OpenOffice) indicates that, when one wants a picture to
appear in one of Writer's documents, one should click on "Insert >
Picture > From file", then select the graphic from the listing displayed
for a given directory, then click on "Open", and the graphic will appear
(at the cursor position?) in the given document.
This seems straightforward. I do not understand why Mr. Olsson would
find this disconcerting or difficult.
I fully understand Mr. Olsson's complaint. In the Forum, we are indeed
used to advise saving any picture to be embedded in AOO on the HD first
and then to insert it with the relevant menu.
However, this is not a very good user experience.
Why the user should not expect a copy-paste to carry over a picture as
it is?
Very often when I copy a pic from another application, it appears fine
and then after a short while (few seconds or a save operation), it is
replaced by a placeholder.
If AOO manages to display the pic in the first place, then why should it
lose it afterward?
Why AOO can't make a copy of the pic in the temporary files to prevent
any loss? Why can't it accomplish what the user has to do, that is, save
the file in its original format and insert it?
Note that I never filed a bug report for that. First because there
already too many reports for too few coders and second because I often
adjust the pic before actually inserting it in the document.
But still, many users expect a copy-paste to behave as a very trivial
operation.
In his reply, Martin Groensheij indicates that "the most reliable way
is to insert [the graphic] in a frame." I assume that the frame helps
because it fixes the position of the graphic within the document's
borders.
My question is: does Writer's documentation indicate that it is
preferable to insert graphics within frames?
-- William Lee Valentine
Personally, I only anchor pics As character, it is clearly the most
robust anchoring. And I use tables if I need to have pics side by side
and/or add a caption.
Frames have always been tricky when it comes to resizing a pic inside.
Hagar
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