Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 18771
MSInteroperability-18: watermarks
Last modified: 2017-05-20 11:25:45 UTC
MSInteroperability-18: watermarks. Here thinks get a little interesting. Word can technically do this by means of the background colour technique, see issue 18247. But what it actually does is place objects anchored into the header. So to "import" watermarks we need simply issue 18732 where something anchored to page in a header gets repeated on every page using that header, as well as unified placement options for drawing object and writer frames. For export it depends if we want to repeat the winword hack of stuff anchored in headers, or use their very own system similiar to background colours. The difference is that the background feature is a canvas of the total page, and not just the printable area as in word. Also open is what gets printed on paper. So will have to kill a few trees to see if there is a difference between the two modes. I wouldn't look forward to having to repeat word's UI trick of anchoring watermarks to content in headers to export watermarking :-(
Accepted, while I brood about it.
Please check relation to issue 22405! Rainer
Not releated. This deals solely using the header field to insert graphics. I for one would hate to see M$'s hack implemented in OOo.
cmc->ama: I'll let you decide what we should do here. We already have background watermark from writer to word implmented. And we have watermark from word to writer implmented because thats just a graphic anchored in a header, which OD has done. The thing is that our watermark export in word will expand to fill the entire page, while in writer it fills only the pagetext area. Possibility 1) thats good enough, no further action required Possibility 2) allow writers watermarks to fill the entire page, make this the default. Now export to word looks like our default, and re-import is the same as it appears in word. Possibility 3) Do the complicated hack on export to place the watermark as a graphic anchored in the nearest header. No need to allow our watermarks to fill the page in this case, as the only application which uses word's system to set a watermark for the full page area is writer at the moment (no UI to do exactly this in word). Re-import will simply import the graphic anchored in a header as such.
I think we need no 2.) for perfect roundtrips. But this is a feature task for OOo Later.
For info, related bugs affecting MS interoperability re. Watermark function: Issue 18771 - MSInteroperability-18: watermarks Issue 24088 - WW8: "Watermark" Graphics Problem, not in background after import Issue 33004 - Background watermark image wrong position when imported from MS Word Issue 43051 - WordML import: pagebackground watermarks not imported Issue 74249 - Watermarks can't be exported properly (.doc file) Issue 91058 - import word 8 doc layout and watermark problem
ama->os: Yet another open filter issue...
Reset assigne to the default "issues@openoffice.apache.org".