Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 18019
frame at bottom of last page
Last modified: 2013-08-07 14:41:36 UTC
Please make it possible to attach a frame to a character in a document and position that frame absolutely on the page where that character appears. Something like a footnote, without the ususal indications of a footnote. My use for this is to have a logo and some text at the bottom on the very last page of my document, such that I do not need to move it when the document expands. My experiments with a callout with invisible border, and a pagestyle with special footer, all failed. I think a frame with its anchor on a character and an absolute position on that page is the most general and useful solution.
jw: reassigned to jw
jw: changed prio to P3 set to WFM if you call the contextmenu of the frame, you can set "anchor -> to character", this should be the function you are looking for.
Reopend. The suggested function only works for the horizontal position. And I am most interrested in the absolute Vertical position, some 2 cm from the bottom of the page, when the character it is anchored to moves vertivally. The Vertical position can only be measured from 3 positions - Margin - Paragraph text area - Character A reference to page or text area is missing here. It would be good to have the same selection as for the Horizontal position. Sometimes it works a bit. Having the vertical positioning set to: Vertical From bottom by 2.00cm to Character Then it stays there wnen inserting text that wraps or changing point size of a block of text and causes the anchor to move verically. But when inseting or deleting paragraphs [just pressing Enter or Backspace] then the frame moves up or down! Ahh, it looks like the frame sometimes locks on to its vertical anchor position, when the anchor comes very close to the frame. Then it starts moving vertically with the anchor character! Also, it does not seem possible to position the frame in the bottom margin, between the lower text border and the edge of the paper.... Please correct this strange behaviour. I am working with the Linux 1.1RC3 version.
jw: setting keyword "ms_interoperability" jw: reassingned to od jw -> Matthijs setting absolut horizontal positions for characters or objects like you described it will be possible in OOo2.0
OD (09.09.2003): accepted. Yes, we will extend the positioning and alignment of to character anchored objects in the next version (OOo 2.0).
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OD (01.10.2003): Extending position alignments of 'to paragraph' and 'to character' anchored frame/graphics by page areas, namely 'entire page' and 'page text area' in local cws swobjpos02 - not yet checked-in in cvs, but coming soon.
enhancement provided by internal cws swobjpos02. With the new vertical alignments 'Entire page' and 'page text area' together with the new option 'Follow text flow' it is now possible to anchor a Writer fly frame to paragraph or to character and position it relative to page areas. This works for Writer fly frames containing normal content (text, tables, etc.), graphics or OLE objects. E.g.: To position a graphic at the bottom of the page, you can anchor it to a paragraph on the page, switch off option 'Follow text flow' and chose as vertical position 'Bottom to entire page'.
OD->MRU: Checked in internal installation set of cws swobjpos02 - please verify.
Checked this with CWS swobjpos2.
Verified. This will be implemented in OO 2.0.
Closed, fixed in current OO 2.0 snapshot 680m34.