Bug 138924

Description:
Every time I paste a photo into a text document, I have to manually change the ANCHOR setting to “as-char” in order to keep the photo located in the proper place.  The setting change does not carry over to the next photo…  you have to change the setting for EACH photo.  Sadly, for many applications this renders LIBRE WRITER pretty much useless.  There must be a dozen “fixes” and “work-arounds” archived on-line.  All of the ones I’ve found are klutzy and would not be needed if only a good programmer would spend an hour or so and track down the source of this problem and apply a fix.  Better yet, give us the option to choose which anchor we want to use as a default, although I realize that is a bigger project.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Edit the STYLES.XML and set image anchor type to "as-char"
2. Paste a photograph into a text document
3. Double click on the image;  you will see that the image anchor type is "to=char", not "as-char". 

Actual Results:
see under OTHER INFORMATION

Expected Results:
I could not find how to attach a file to this bug report.  I have a document that includes screen shots if anyone is interested I can send them.  Just let me know.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: Yes



Additional Info:
Bug:  Libre Writer    7.0.3.1  build d7547858d014d4cf69878db179d326fc3483e082 and 7.1 (Dev) both have the same problem.  This has been documented before, but the suggested fixes do not work.  Thus I am running it up the flagpole again.  This is a very important problem for many users.

Description:  When an image is inserted into text in a Libre Writer document, formatting behavior is not what is expected.  To say that this is very frustrating is a gross understatement, and has forced me and I suspect many others to go back to MSWORD for our sanity.

The problem would be resolved if the default setting for IMAGE TYPE in styles.xml would be set to ANCHOR AS-CHARACTER.  Instead, it always comes up ANCHOR TO-CHARACTER.  There is no way for the user to change the default;  even utilizing a template does not work.

The problem appears to have deep roots.  When first installed, the default setting in the STYLES.XML code is set to ANCHOR TO-PARAGRAPH.  However, if you create a document and paste in an image then double click on the image, the setting shows up as ANCHOR TO-CHARACTER.  See below.



If you edit the XML and change the setting to ANCHOR AS-CHAR it makes zero difference.  The image shows up the same and it does not actually exhibit the AS-CHAR behavior.

Here is the XML after the change was made:

                                                                


And here is the result shown by double clicking on the image:




It is exactly the same, no change.

I even made a pass using ANCHOR TO PARAGRAPH, same result.

SUMMARY:  Every time I paste a photo into a text document, I have to manually change the ANCHOR setting to “as-char” in order to keep the photo located in the proper place.  The setting change does not carry over to the next photo…  you have to change the setting for EACH photo.  Sadly, for many applications this renders LIBRE WRITER pretty much useless.  There must be a dozen “fixes” and “work-arounds” archived on-line.  All of the ones I’ve found are klutzy and would not be needed if only a good programmer would spend an hour or so and track down the source of this problem and apply a fix.  Better yet, give us the option to choose which anchor we want to use as a default, although I realize that is a bigger project.

Thanks for reading.
John Lockridge