Bug 135832 - UI: Configuring a bitmap to show on full page with custom position and size not easy to do/ user friendly
Summary: UI: Configuring a bitmap to show on full page with custom position and size n...
Status: RESOLVED INSUFFICIENTDATA
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
7.1.0.0.alpha0+
Hardware: All All
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Reported: 2020-08-17 09:22 UTC by Telesto
Modified: 2023-08-19 03:19 UTC (History)
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Example file (582.69 KB, image/png)
2020-08-17 09:24 UTC, Telesto
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Description Telesto 2020-08-17 09:22:19 UTC
Description:
Configuring a bitmap to show on full page with custom position and size not easy to do/ user friendly

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open Writer
2. Format -> Page Style -> Area -> Bitmap
3. Choose A bitmap & tiled mode -> Press apply -> Full page filed
4. Choose custom position & size.. and press apply -> only filled until page border
5. Type width 21 height 29,70. Full page gets filled

Actual Results:
in Choose custom position & size the width/ height appears to be tile size (1 cm x 1 cm). However if you put  21 height 29,70 a full page will be filled; which is surely confusing

Expected Results:
1. Make separate setting for 'full page' or page margins (would also be nice for page color background). If for what ever reason you don't want to border to be included. The old way was 'with borders'. Default maybe full page, but make it optional (which it bitmap area even more useful)

2. This would scale also more logical; scale to page or to page borders. Personally I would prefer percentage default; not seeing the point of doing this in absolutes (as i assume people attempting to fill the p

3. Scale is bit hard to follow. As it has multiple meanings. Scaling an image of 1 x 1 cm to 150 (is increase size). Scale an image of 100x100 for a4 means reducing size. Or scale to margins; scale to page? What is meant here?

4. Add a preview of how it looks on page, it's evilly hard configuring, without seeing what the end result would be. So you go try and error, Apply, edit etc.

5. The position setting doesn't make sense in the case you want to scale to page margins or to page. As it doesn't matter at all.






Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



Additional Info:
Found in
7.1

and in
Version: 6.4.0.0.alpha0+ (x64)
Build ID: 92d1b0d10ec04f17d116bc54aada652f1c2cac4a
CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 6.3; UI render: GL; VCL: win; 
Locale: nl-NL (nl_NL); UI-Language: en-US
Calc: CL
Comment 1 Telesto 2020-08-17 09:24:22 UTC
Created attachment 164372 [details]
Example file

Reason for this bug 94826. As what that person did is simply. Pasting an image & setting it to 'background' 

However attempting to set it background was harder than expected. 
Or should there be an option like Draw/Impress has?)
Comment 2 Heiko Tietze 2020-09-09 11:16:28 UTC
We started the new Area fill dialog with a proposal at https://design.blog.documentfoundation.org/2015/12/22/area-fill-options-made-consistent/ that also considered easy to handle bitmaps. However for several reasons it wasn't fully implemented in the GSoC project. Among other because the proposal oversimplified and ignored available options. 

We have many tickets around this, bug 103223 or bug 113224 are the meta tickets. I suggest to resolve this report as duplicate. It's anyway a bit unspecific.
Comment 3 Buovjaga 2021-04-19 15:59:40 UTC
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #2)
> We have many tickets around this, bug 103223 or bug 113224 are the meta
> tickets. I suggest to resolve this report as duplicate. It's anyway a bit
> unspecific.

Telesto: do you agree? If yes, pick a duplicate
Comment 4 Telesto 2021-04-19 17:19:29 UTC
(In reply to Buovjaga from comment #3)
> (In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #2)
> > We have many tickets around this, bug 103223 or bug 113224 are the meta
> > tickets. I suggest to resolve this report as duplicate. It's anyway a bit
> > unspecific.
> 
> Telesto: do you agree? If yes, pick a duplicate

Not seeing anything similar in those meta bugs (but well only skimmed through)
Comment 5 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2023-01-19 22:15:14 UTC
Telesto, isn't what you want to do simply about changing from "Custom position/size" to "Stretched"?
Comment 6 QA Administrators 2023-07-19 03:15:34 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 7 QA Administrators 2023-08-19 03:19:46 UTC
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