Issue 73943 - Anchor to page relative to character
Summary: Anchor to page relative to character
Status: CONFIRMED
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Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: formatting (show other issues)
Version: OOo 2.1
Hardware: All All
: P3 Trivial (vote)
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Reported: 2007-01-28 03:00 UTC by smithtom
Modified: 2013-02-07 22:32 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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Description smithtom 2007-01-28 03:00:29 UTC
I insert all graphics into frames to facilitate captions.  Then set the frame's
anchor to character and position the to top/bottom of page text area.  This
allows a graphic to follow the relative text but always remain at the top or
bottom of a page.  Normally this works well but sometime causes some wrap issues
with the text.  The larger issue is when inserting a full page frame for a large
graphic.  The desire is to have the placement of the frame be on the page after
the related text.  Using the “anchor to character†does not work well in this
case, often inserting numerous extra blank pages.  The current “anchor to pageâ€
does not meet my needs because it does not keep the frame relative to related
text, so if pages are inserted earlier in the document the related text ends up
on a page later than the frame.

I understand that currently “anchor to page†is an absolute anchor to a specific
page number, and agree with that functionality.

My suggestion is for a new anchor type: “anchor to a page relative to a
characterâ€.  With this anchor type you could insert the object next to the
character you wanted it related to, select this new anchor type, and then set
its page relativity to that character.  You would be able to specify if it
should be anchored to same page as character, a page before, or a page after.  I
envision an integer entry box with increment and decrement buttons, with 0 for
the same page, negative for before, and positive for following.  This way a
frame set to “anchor to page relative to character†and 1 would always show up
on the page after the anchor point.

Thanks,
-Tom
Comment 1 michael.ruess 2007-01-29 12:32:43 UTC
Reassigned to requirements.