Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 61440
No way to turn off floating-frames
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:33:57 UTC
I'd like to find a way to keep frames from floating. If I anchor a frame containing a picture to a paragraph, I want to preserve sequencing. That frame should always directly follow the paragraph anchor with no intervening paragraphs. If there is not enough room to fit the frame on the page, OOo bumps the frame to the next page and then moves up other paragraphs to fill the remainder of the current page. This is fine in some circumstances, but I'd like the ability to preserve the sequence order. If there is not enough room on a page to hold the frame, the frame should be bumped to the next page and the remainder of the current page should be left blank. I can sort of work around this problem by including empty paragraphs after the frame, but that is kind of hackish. It also gets in the way of using frame styles to adjust pre- and post-frame spacing. mike
Please try out the "first paragraph" option on the "Wrap" tabpage of the frame properties. Does this meet your requirements?
"First paragraph" is grayed out when wrap is set to "None." I can experiment with other wrap setting and enable "first paragraph," but a wrap of "None" is what a really want. mike
Yeah, that doesn't work. If I select any type of wrapping other than None, the paragraph above the frame wraps the frame, and that's not what I want. mike
Ah, I see... and what about the "Follow text flow" option at the bottom on the "Type" tabpage ß
That doesn't help either. In one case I tested, the frame jumped ahead of the anchoring paragraph to ensure it would stay on the same page. While I can see how that might be useful, in my case I'd prefer to preserve a strict ordering. mike
Could you please attach the referring document to this issue, so that we can see what's happeninmh there?
I apologize for not having a compact single page example, but look at the bottom of page 7, start of page 8. There is a captioned picture there that will illustrate the problem if you remove the empty paragraph immediately proceding the picture. mike
Created attachment 33852 [details] Document that contains a captioned picture that I can't keep from relocating
I'm attaching a smaller document that shows the same problems, but also shows an additional, but I think related, problem. If you remove the empty "text body" styled paragraphs I have inserted above and below each picture and adjust the "Picture Frame" frame style to include 0.2" above and below each frame, then the pictures end up on top of each other. Ideally, I'd like to stylize things that way - no empty paragraphs and the caption frames including a whitespace buffer above and below - but the over-lapping and mis-sequenced pictures puts the kibosh on that. mike
Created attachment 34029 [details] Smaller document that will show mis-sequenced and over-lapping frames
Desired is a possibility to keep an object inside the text boundaries without moving it back into its anchor frame automatically (which is currently done by the OO 1.x compatibility flag "follow text flow).