all pages to be the same, different images of course.
have hundreds of images, so i dont want to fiddle about arranging the images every time i get a new page
thanks all
Please, edit your question to describe your purpose. Are you intending to create some sort of image catalogue? Are the images position at random? or arranged in some regular pattern? In the latter case, I recommend a table with fixed size cells (I’ve done that for my own photo collection).
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I recommend a table with fixed size cells (I’ve done that for my own photo collection).
sounds good- how i do that?
writing a book that will go to pdf. for us only.
some text pages, but most will have 3 identically sized images, in the same place on all the pages.
thanks
Actually Writer is not really designed to do “pages” - this aporoach is more common in DTP-Software like Scribus.
If I’d have to try it in Writer I would try with a master document, wich imports the different pages. So I can create a page-template with the fixed layout.
It has to be decided, where the page-breaks wil be included/generated.
(Thinking of the concept, I may use TeX.
Recently read an article on the topic by Mike Schili in a magazine on Linux)
Thanks all, does anyone know of a word forum?
I found some using the magic spell
ms-word forum
at google. As I never use any of them I can’t give recommendations.
Thanks for your help
The closest approximation to page-oriented documents is a table with such a size as it is the only object on a page. Beware! As @Wanderer points out Writer is not designed for that. In Writer text will flow continuously from page to page, allocating new pages when text spills over.
Design a template for your document(s).
The first pages will be filled as usual with the cover page, legalese, TOC, some introductory text. Just insert place holders is contents should be customised in each document (after this a template). Make use of the page styles to allow for header/footer and various page numbering.
For the “catalogue” part, create a separate page style and open a new page. In this page (which already contains an empty paragraph, preferentially styled Text Body, but any style will do because it will never be used), insert a table. As as understand your need, this table will be 1-column×3-rows.
- Customise its properties
Text Flowtab so that a page break Before is forced with the specific page style you created for the catalogue. - Select the whole table and
Table>Size>Row Height. Enter your desired height and untick Fit to size.
Using it is a bit contorted because Writer is not a “page” program. You must take care not to erase your table template. First create a new document from the template. I let you discover how to manage your template. Note there are two ways to base documents on a template:
- double-click on the template file icon, but any later update to the template will not be forwarded to the document
-
File>New>Templatesafter you have registered your template with Writer, and template updates are forwarded to the document
When you want to add a page for the images, put the cursor in the empty paragraph below the table and press Enter. Copy the table and paste it in the new empty paragraph. This creates a new page.
You can now fill in the table in the older page.
Entering text in the table cells will never overflow to new pages and your cells will never expand (because they are fixed-size. If you enter too long a text with your image, a red triangle will appear to warn you about text clipping.
I also recommend maximum use of paragraph and character styles for text accompanying your images so that you can fine-tune easily the appearance.
If images worked in mail merge, I’d suggest that approach 
Images work in reports. Reports are similar to mail merge.
@mikekaganski wrote:
If images worked in mail merge
Could be a useful feature request. IMHO this is not possible, see @Villeroy’s reply.