Bug 138474 - When image is anchored to page in Writer, cannot interact with anchor
Summary: When image is anchored to page in Writer, cannot interact with anchor
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
4.4.7.2 release
Hardware: All Windows (All)
: medium minor
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Blocks: Writer-Images
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Reported: 2020-11-24 23:39 UTC by stefan.m.terry
Modified: 2023-04-22 18:49 UTC (History)
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Description stefan.m.terry 2020-11-24 23:39:09 UTC
Description:
When an image on a page is set to anchor to page, trying to interact with the anchor to change the page it is anchored to instead opens the header/footer, making it impossible to change the page these images are anchored to effectively. When switching to another anchor method, it is unpredictable where the image will end up, and has on multiple occasions become hidden and unable to be interacted with entirely.

Steps to Reproduce:
1.place one or more images on a page
2.set anchor to page
3.try to move the anchor

Actual Results:
the image lost focus, and the header gained focus.

Expected Results:
allowed movement of the anchor to another page.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



Additional Info:
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Locale: en-US
Module: TextDocument
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OS: Windows (All)
OS is 64bit: no
Comment 1 Telesto 2020-11-25 17:06:45 UTC
Repro with
7.1

and with 
4.4.7.2

dragging they anchor with header enabled in multi-page view isn't working. However selecting the image as change & dragging is working perfectly fine & also copy/paste

Is there specific reason for this to be actually 'needed'? Feels kind of trivial (even though being a bug). So tend to set priority that way...

Usage of To page probably even more reduced now it's not in the context menu anymore
Comment 2 stefan.m.terry 2020-11-25 18:44:05 UTC
I'm entirely unable to drag the image off the page it's anchored to without changing the anchor mode. This isn't a huge issue with smaller images surrounded by text it can anchor itself to, but images or frames that fill more than one-third of a page become really cumbersome to move between pages visually.

Cut/paste seems to work fine for full-page images. I guess I didn't expect it to maintain the anchor data...

I thought I'd bumped the priority down, so if it was high or normal that's my bad.

(In reply to Telesto from comment #1)
Comment 3 QA Administrators 2022-11-26 03:42:02 UTC
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