Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 19001
unexpected image placing behaviour when moving images
Last modified: 2013-08-07 14:41:36 UTC
unexpected image placing behaviour when moving images: page 3 of attached document: move image top left down as to place it directly above image bottom left without white space. The result is unexpected: several images get moved to places they shouldn't be. also: from the freshly openend document: tell me how I can plase the caret before the first auto-numerated I on the second last page to move this list on to the last page.
Created attachment 8968 [details] demo file
see issue 7085 in the respect of making life easier
Several issues have been filed about graphic images moving on their own without user intervention. Try putting a lot of graphics in a document and then having one page with more than five. Then close the document and reopen it. Most of the time (not always, which makes it hard to run down), the graphics move around on their own to new pages, overlap one another and otherwise do strange things. As far as I know, even though many people have complained about this "feature" no one is currently working on it. You describe just one of these "incredibly jumping graphic" issues.
this is a major problem; it can be resolved most (all?) of the time by setting objects to be anchored at page. When wanting to move them to another page they have to be temporarily anchored at paragraph however. and for setting objecs to be anchored at page, mentioned issue 7085 is very helpful. concerning anchoring, see issue 17120 concerning wrapping: if I remmeber correctly, currently wrapping type icons indicate that the object which is wrapped stays fixed; this is how it should be: wrapping only concerns text flow around a object: it doesn't change the object position or how a object is to be positioned. Two additional object features: cut and distribute over several pages and object overlapping. An feature which will also be helpful is issue 17475 when the current selected object is highlighted and its anchor and a position reference (elastic like animation) is included in this overview.
When anchored to a page, when I've had the problem (any document with a lot of graphic images), anchoring to a page keeps the images on the page, but they still overlap, move around arbitrarily and otherwise misbehave. This has been reported frequently and, at last review (by me) every single reported related issue has been left at "unconfirmed", meaning no developer is looking at it as far as I can tell.
jw: reassigend to jw
reassigned to od confirmed with OOo1.1RC4
set target to OOo2.0
OD (23.09.2003): I know that the behaviour of object positions isn't easy to understand, but I will try to explain some stuff: The wrapping mode change of an object *will* probably cause a move of the object, if the object is anchored and positioned at a content (paragraph or character). Because the wrapping can cause the anchor to move, thus, the object has to follow. This is rare, but can happen. The situation becomes more dependent, if there are several objects with wrapping, because the wrapping of one object influences the position of the anchor of the other object. In the given document on page 3 the object (name it A), which is proposed to move, has wrap 'optimal'. Because of the given situation text would wrap on the right side of this object. Because on right side is another object (name it B) with wrap 'optimal', around which the text would wrap on the left side, no text is beside these two objects. Both objects at the bottom of the page (name them C and D) are anchored at the paragraph, which is moved below the objects A and B, because of the given wrapping modes. Now, the proposed object A is moved to the bottom of the page. Now, text can wrap on the left side of object B. This happens *correctly* and thus, moves the anchor paragraph beside object B. The anchored object C and D follow *correctly* its anchor paragraph and be *correctly* positioned . Object A, because of its wrapping, now allows text on its right side. This also happens *correctly*. Thus, everything is Ok from my point of view and from the implemented positioning algorithm. I know, that such dependencies aren't easy to detect and to understand. I also know, that objects anchored to page stay on the page and don't move with the proposed content. For this, we will extend the positioning possibilities in the next version: to paragraph and to character anchored objects will be allowed to be vertical positioned relative to the page. Then you can create an object anchored to paragraph/to character, which has a fix position on the page, on which its anchor paragraph/character is on - it will follow its anchor.
OD (23.09.2003): re-assigned to SBA.
SBA: Set to "Resolved Invalid".
SBA: Closed.