Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 17924
Graphics should display even outside text wrapping contour.
Last modified: 2013-08-07 14:38:26 UTC
Writer's Contour text wrapping feature has an undocumented and ugly side effect of using the ontour polygon that is supposed to control text wrapping as a mask for the display of the graphic. Not an issue for white backgrounds, but often visually jarring for colored backgrounds, photos, etc. This was first uncovered in the investigation of Issue 17474 which will now strictly focus on a related but distinct .doc import issue.
Created attachment 8269 [details] Shows ugly side effect and image of the intended effect
HI->AMA: Nearly the same like 17474 but with a little difference. See the attachment.
We use the polygon for text wrapping as well as for clipping of the graphic. This makes sense in many cases. In the example you don't want it. The solution will be a property which can be set at the graphic.
I consider this a bug! If I want to have a wrap around a graphic the way we offer it I just cut the graphic to the right shape. But what I expect is that the text will run OVER the graphic!
Created attachment 9905 [details] Clipping or not clipping?
No, it's no bug. We've inserted a few lines of code to clip the graphic because sometimes it's very useful. See my last attachment. I inserted a rose with contour wrapping and of course I don't want to see the (clipped) background of the rose. Normally I don't want to have text above a graphic. But if you really need it, you have a workaround, see my attachment and have a look at the blue circle ;-) So sometimes we want the clipping, sometimes not, we'll need it for our own older documents but we don't want it for Word import. The solution: we need a property which decides if the graphic will clipped or not during the contour wrapping.
I don't have the resources to implement this feature for 2.0.
To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on my owner to the owner "requirements".