Is there an "email" mode? (unlimited page lenght)

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#1

Im writing a draft for an email with a lot of images and it’s really annoying as I constantly hit the limit of the page. Is there a way to just sent unlimited lenght page? I have added 999cm or so under “user” in “Page Style”, and it maxes out at 600cm. It’s the closest thing, but at some point the page ends and it jumps into another huge page. I ended up with 2 big pages to complete the email. Ideally I just would like it all in email style and you just scroll down and read. It’s not something that’s going to be printed so I don’t care about fitting this inside A4 sheets.

Btw, it’s really annoying dealing with attaching images. Why is it to clumpsy to work with? It jumps around all the time. I add a new image where the cursor is sitting, and it’s pasted above on top of other images. The whole thing is just annoying to work with. Any tips in this field?

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#3

You can go to Tools - Options - Libre Office - Formatting Aids and set the default for anchoring images to As character

#4

You might want to change the value of MaximumPaperHeight
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Choose Tools ⟶ Options ⟶ LibreOffice ⟶ Advanced ⟶ Open Expert Configuration
and search for MaximumPaperHeight
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#8

I think you’ve chosen the wrong tool. It looks like what you need is a simple text editor (no formatting on text – you don’t mention it) with the possibility to attach images at defined locations.

In this case, why don’t you use a mailer program like Thunderbird, Outlook or Exchange? They all have a “draft” mode in which you can save your messages exactly as they will later be sent.

This is much simpler than trying to coerce Writer for something it is not intended.

#10

I have thunderbird downloaded but I don’t know how to use it. I can create an email here and save it as a file (what format?) and send this? Is it possible to use Thunderbird to create this email without linking an actual email address? I cannot click on new email and the email I use isn’t compatible with Thunderbird anyway, it needs a bridge app which you have to pay for. All of these extra steps are just annoying. They should add an email mode for writer.

#11

But im sending the file to someone else, they will not have set it up like this.
I think ideally I just want to generate an eml file but I don’t know how as I don’t want to use gmail to create some file that I just want to make locally.

#12

Obviously, first thing to learn.

Yes. And your draft is saved “internally”, so you need not bother about .eml format or other. .eml is meaningful only when you want to export your email outside Thunderbird to process it with some other program or to attach it to another email.

Nonsense.

I feel you’re presently using a web browser to connect to an e-mail service (via web mail). Indeed, Thunderbird does not connect through web mail. It does either with POP or IMAP protocols. Consequently, to configure Thunderbird you need to know the “technical” settings of your e-mail service, such as URLs for inbound server, outbound mail transfer server and their port as well as security parameters. Fortunately, Thunderbird knows these settings for most common services.

???

When you send a draft previously saved in Thunderbird, it is turned back into a standard e-mail and your recipient will see no difference between a straight one and a “pre-cooked” one.

#13

@ajlittoz I feel that @dellor is inventing a wheel, some absolutely new way of communication, trying to care about how recipient will digest the data … something completely custom, and largely useless. The whole task is not explained, though; of course, that could be something great and shiny.

But maybe it’s just a task for hiding page breaks.

#18

Wrong. Protonmal requires that you buy their propietary “bridge” software to use Thunderbird.

#20

This worked. I just added the extra lenght I needed, and then I just exported as a PDF. I can send this and it reads the same as an email. Hope they have a computer strong enough to open it. It’s around 10mb for a PDF. It takes 3 seconds for it to show up. No problems tho, seems to work fine.

I already explained what I wanted: That you can scroll down and read it the same as you would read an email. It’s a long text with a lot of images in between that doesn’t need to be cut all the time due page size limitations. Page breaks are simply annoying, unless you need to format it in a way that you need numbered pages, when you have a ton of pictures it’s just a lot of pages with only images. This reads better in one go. So this one page PDF will do.

#2

As you don’t need to print the document, try web view - View | Web.

#5

… which will have 10-meter pages :slight_smile:

#6

This is a possible solution but when you switch to Web View the document page also extend to the full width of Writer. With wide monitors this makes the document less readable.
Is there a setting for changing the width of Web View (soft-wrapping) without altering the document page size?

#7

No. But there’s also no rule preventing you from making Writer window fill only part of width of the monitor.

#9

But im going to send this file to someone that may not have a software configured like that. It has to show up properly by default.

#14

See similar topic here:
[Solved] Removing all page breaks, making one single long “page”
It seems that you can expand “regular” pages to 12 meters and more.

OMG!

#15

The specified topic suggests changing the styles.xml file in the “zip” archive of the Writer document.
This can be achieved in a more “legitimate” way.

  1. As colleague @cwolan pointed out, we change the parameter MaximumPaperHeight value to, for example, 9999.
  2. Now we can specify the page height value (in Writer, Calc, … ) up to 99.9 meters.

Of course, the consequences of these actions must be tested in practice. (I have not tested).

#16

FWIW:
see comments in svtools: double the limit of max drawing page size

#17

That would usually hint to export to pdf as the intended usecase for the format was identical visual representation on different computers, but you will have “pages”. And as you can not control the other computer it may be viewed with different software as you.
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If you go for email: There are several modes to view mails, and the receiving computer may use a simplified setting… Also note: There are size-limits for mails in the msil-providers settings. So your “mail” may simply be rejected, if your photos result in a very big file.
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I think the tool you seek is an editor for web-pages .html, wich can be created locally. By default .html will allow reflow/resizing, so either prepare for this or use some toolkit wich ignores bigger spaces (There are media-queries for this, but that is a long way to learn, if you don’t use a library for this.)
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And at some day you need to find out, how to send your big page…

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#19

Yeah, export as PDF works and translates the same thing im seeing. Only problem is, I got 2 huge pages, and half of one page is unused. I wish there was a way to just make a single page and match the size as needed. They should just add an easy way to do this. Most people dont even print these days, just let us infinite scroll as needed.

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