Issue 95387

Summary:

Combining of text boxes should create a text box

Product:

Draw

Reporter:

hena <henrikki.almusa>

Component:

editing

Assignee:

AOO issues mailing list <issues>

Status:

UNCONFIRMED ---

QA Contact:

Severity:

Trivial

Priority:

CC:

issues, pdponzer

Version:

OOo 3.0

Target Milestone:

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Hardware:

All

OS:

All

Issue Type:

FEATURE

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Illustration of Combined Text Boxes	none

Description hena 2008-10-23 19:50:42 UTC

As described in bug http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=59551 the 
combining of text boxes changes them to bezier curves before combining. This 
is intentional. However from usability point of view it's not very useful. The 
combined boxes should become instead a normal text box with all the text in 
the boxes that were combined joined together by newlines.

Comment 1 pesala 2008-10-23 20:44:54 UTC

Created attachment 57422 [details]
Illustration of Combined Text Boxes

Comment 2 pesala 2008-10-23 20:45:13 UTC

This an obvious thing to do when combining text boxes instead of converting them to 
curves. Whether the boxes (2 or more) being combined are overlapping or not, the 
combined text box should be from x,y min to x,y max of the original selected group. 

Should the text be joined with a paragraph break between each text block, or as a single 
text stream? I think the latter may prove more useful.

Comment 3 wolframgarten 2008-10-24 07:51:32 UTC

Reassigned.

Comment 4 pdponzer 2019-01-07 22:08:39 UTC

I ended up resolving this with a macro found here:

https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/178518/get-selected-text-boxes-and-combine-into-one/?answer=178571#post-id-178571