Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 65577
No Position and Size for images in Writer
Last modified: 2006-05-23 15:01:39 UTC
Hi, I wanted to rotate an image in a Writer document, (Dutch OOo 2.0.2). But the context menu for an image does not have a Position and Size entry. The Format - Object - Position and Size menu exists, but it is greyed out when an image is selected. In contrast, in Draw the Position and Size dialog for an image can be accessed from both the context menu and the menu bar. This is how it should be in Writer as well. For the time being, a workaround is to copy the image to Draw, rotate it, and copy it back into the Writer document. By the way, I also noticed that when an image is selected, the Edit - Object menu is not greyed out, but its submenus won't open either. This is also the case in Draw.
On second thought, rotating the image in draw and copying it into Writer is not a very good workaround because colour adjustment and cropping of the pasted image become disabled.
It is the same as issue 21499. Graphics in Writer are handled like frames, not like drawing objects. This is planned to be unified in a future version. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 21499 ***
Closing duplicate.