Hello,
whenever I choose to add a picture to a text page, and I give ample room to enlarge it as I need to, the act of doing so it throws all text everywhere…why is the text floating and not fixed on the
page, and besides building a frame to collect the picture( which does the same thing) how can I
momentarily anchor the text, manipulate the picture size and then normalize the flow of the text
on the page.
Thanks for your patience
That is one basic principle of flow-driven text-processing. The text fills the gaps between the margins and other obstacles. I would suggest to use DTP-software instead, but this wouldn’t help much, as you would need to do the same step you mentioned above: Create a frame first, then insert the picture. (I’m used to this for Scribus, so no problem to do the same in Writer…)
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Anchoring is not the right term. Like ships objects can still move.
I don’t know a possibility to fix the text.
It should be possible to allow text-flow to go through your picture, so text will not move when you position the picture. I’m not sure, if this is a good setting as default for graphics…
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I’d use a more simplistic approach and move the text away by adding a page-break, to be removed after finishing the obstacle-course of images…
Give a detailed specification of what you want to achieve with layout (=“geometric”) terms, not putative solutions to be debugged.
I assume you are a newbie in Writer and aren’t acquainted with styles.
Mention OS name, LO version and save format.