Insert multiple images as quickly as possible in Writer (two images per page, side by side, both images must cover the entire page)

[heraclito20177]

Hello,
I would appreciate it if you could help me with the following question: I have 62 jpg images in a folder, and I need to insert them into a LibreOffice Writer document that has Letter-sized pages with landscape orientation. The document should meet the following requirements:

• Two images on each page
• The images should be placed side by side
• There should be no separation between the two images on a page
  I would be grateful if you could tell me how to achieve this as quickly as possible, whether it involves using a script (macro) or not. My OS is Debian, my Writer version is 7.5.0.3.
  My ultimate purpose is to convert it to a PDF and then print it.
  Thank you in advance.

[ajlittoz]

What is your OS name? LO version? intended save format?
Why have you tagged common since it seems to be a Writer-related question, not Calc, Impress or Draw (all covered by said tag)? Same question for macro: do you request a macro to do the job?

Without much information on the ultimate purpose , here are some possible leads:

• the document should be oriented landscape, therefore apply page style Landscape to the first page; all others will be automatically the same
• either configure your page for 2-column without gutter between columns (but you’ll need to manually add column breaks to force next paragraph to next column)
• or insert a 2-column table in the page with row height manually forced to available page height
  when in last cell, press Tab to create another row (which will appear on next page

Your image will anyway need to be inserted manually where they belong. To automate the process as much as possible, design a user frame style (or customise built-in Graphics) to position correctly the image relative to the anchor (which is most conveniently To paragraph; don’t use To page which does not behave like you think).

But, your job does not look to me as one for Writer which is text flow-oriented (i.e. managing a flow of text in paragraphs across pages. It is closer to a page-oriented job. This is best handled by DTP applications (DTP = desktop publishing). Among the free and libre applications, there is Scribus.

[mariosv]

It is feasible with Impress:
Menu/Insert/Media/Photo album
import all pictures at once.
Then you can copy into Writer slide by slide. I think easier than import one by one.