Linda - When you were 'playing with the backgrounds', did you try adjusting the page margins to make the image cover the entire page? Or did you use the real 'Background' feature that ignores the page margins for the image but should leave them unchanged for any text you add to the page?
In an earlier message you referred to images being opened in Draw rather than in Writer. It wasn't clear how you were opening the image. For use in Writer, you should not open the image using File > Open, but rather use Insert > Image, or Format > Page Style > Image. In an earlier message you also referred to getting '3 or 4 images in one' in Writer. That sounds like the tiling behaviour when an image is used as a true background: if the image is smaller than the page, Writer will make additional copies of it to fill the page, like tiles on a floor. Maybe you'd already figured those things out but I wasn't sure. - Robert ________________________________ From: Linda Hull <chalcedony6...@gmail.com> Sent: August 19, 2023 02:42 To: David Robley <da...@robley.net.au>; users@openoffice.apache.org <users@openoffice.apache.org> Subject: Re: How to Make a Background Fit? David, There are things which I don't understand about Open Office. Since I started playing with the backgrounds I've lost the regular one inch margins on any new pages I open. How do I get them back? I don't think I can send examples to the forum, but if anyone wants to see? Linda On Fri, Aug 18, 2023 at 8:05 PM David Robley <da...@robley.net.au> wrote: > See if https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?t=108078 is > helpful. > > On 19/08/2023 05:49, Linda Hull wrote: > > Dear Wonderful Open Office People, > > > > I want to send a letter, either paper or electronically, with an > > appropriate background image. I have Windows 10 and Open Office 4.1.13. > > > > I found an image, cropped it, opening it in Open Office, I get one image > in > > the middle of the page and even though I specified Writer, it's in Draw, > OR > > I get 3 or 4 images in one, in Writer. > > > > ...
