Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 71397
Image should keep "Top of text area" alignment
Last modified: 2017-05-20 10:12:56 UTC
I set an image with Type - Position - Vertical: Top - to: Paragraph text area. Then I move the image from it's current position to a new position in the same line and it is automatically reset to: Type - Position - Vertical: From Top - to: Margin. Why?!? I also updated the default style of Graphics to match my settings and this still happens. It is very hard to integrate images with lines, far too many settings, and the settings keep changing from underneath me without my doing anything other than trying to place the image where it belongs.
If you move the graphic manually a user defined position must by assigned to the position attributes of the graphic.This is described by the property "From top". This won't be possible to solve different.
closed.
The user already defined the position attribute as top to Paragraph text. If move from one paragraph to the next it should not matter that I am moving it manually (the only way there is to move it into position in the first place), it should still align itself to the paragraph as per my instructions. It works like this... 1) I bring a graphic into my page. 2) I position it in the correct place in the text 3) My graphic has lost the Position settings, because I moved it into place 4) ergo this is a bug. There was no other way to get the graphic into position other than to move it there, but by doing so OOo removed my positioning instructions, e.g. this graphic aligns with the text.
The problem would be, if someone moves a graphic, he wants it to be in the position where he "drops" it. If you have the position "Top of paragraph" all the time, the user won't be able to move the graphic downwards - it would always jump back to top of paragraph, because the attribute "top of paragraph" is kind of "fix". That would not be intuitive... What is your opinion about this?
The way I see it is this: 1) The default Graphic style is just as you say 2) If I change the style to Position top of paragraph, and I drag and move the graphic, it should rebound to the Top of the Paragraph of the Paragraph it has been dragged to. --So if I've changed the style from the default to Top paragraph, even if I drag it to another place on the page, which ever paragraph I drag it to it should align itself to, it is I who chose to change the alignment so it is obvious that I don't want the image associated back to the margin.
Changing to "Enhancement" as long as this is a request to changed a defined behaviour in Writer. Reassigning to "requirements" for decision.
It is unreasonable to expect old settings to apply after moving the image. Instead 1) apply settings 2) move image one should 1) move image 2) apply settings