Description: Image position off when changing 'to paragraph' to 'to character' back 'to paragraph' and drag the anchor Steps to Reproduce: 1. open the attached file 2. Select the image 3. Change anchor to 'to paragraph' 4. Change it back to 'to character' 5. Change it again to 'to paragraph' 6. Drag the anchor up to first paragraph Actual Results: Image goes the left corner Expected Results: Should work similar to Step 3 Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: Version: 7.3.0.0.alpha0+ (x64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: d5e55d204b71710eb5eb5d2c683dd6698626df3c CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 6.3 Build 9600; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win Locale: nl-NL (nl_NL); UI: en-US Calc: CL
Created attachment 175124 [details] Example file
STR to long: 1. open the attached file 2. Select the image 3. Change anchor to 'to paragraph' 4. Drag the anchor up to first paragraph -> Notice the mess 5. File -> reload 6. Change anchor to 'to paragraph' 7. Save 8. File -> reload 9. Drag the anchor up to first paragraph -> Expected
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Created attachment 175125 [details] Example of opposite (changing from 'to paragraph' to 'to character')
(In reply to Telesto from comment #2) > STR to long: > 1. open the attached file > 2. Select the image > 3. Change anchor to 'to paragraph' > 4. Drag the anchor up to first paragraph -> Notice the mess > > 5. File -> reload > 6. Change anchor to 'to paragraph' > 7. Save > 8. File -> reload > 9. Drag the anchor up to first paragraph -> Expected I can't see any difference in result after step 4 and step 9. Behaviour: If you move the anchor from one paragraph to another paragraph, LO keeps the distance between anchor and image (that might be expected). If you drag the image, you can reduce or expand the distance between anchor and image. If this is the specific difference between dragging the anchor and dragging the image / object itself, we should add this to documentation: https://help.libreoffice.org/7.3/en-GB/text/swriter/guide/anchor_object.html?&DbPAR=WRITER&System=WIN => needsUXEval Tested with Version: 7.2.1.2 (x64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 87b77fad49947c1441b67c559c339af8f3517e22 CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19043; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win Locale: de-DE (de_DE); UI: en-GB Calc: CL
(In reply to Telesto from comment #2) > Notice the mess Image attributes remain intact and positioning follows. Don't see an issue.
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #6) > Image attributes remain intact and positioning follows. Don't see an issue. My question to Design Team was, if the following behaviour is the expected and intendet one: If you move the anchor from one paragraph to another paragraph, LO keeps the distance between anchor and image. If you drag the image, you can reduce or expand the distance between anchor and image."
STR 1. open the attached file 2. Select the image 3. Change anchor to 'to paragraph' 3a. Drag the anchor (not the image) to the top paragraph -> expected 4. Undo 4. Change it back to 'to character' 5. Change it again to 'to paragraph' 6. Drag the anchor up to first paragraph -> off
Created attachment 175511 [details] Anchor lacking relative size to anchor (In reply to Dieter from comment #7) > (In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #6) > > Image attributes remain intact and positioning follows. Don't see an issue. > > My question to Design Team was, if the following behaviour is the expected > and intendet one: If you move the anchor from one paragraph to another > paragraph, LO keeps the distance between anchor and image. If you drag the > image, you can reduce or expand the distance between anchor and image." LO keeps the distance between anchor & image is something what initially expected, but appears to be more complicated :-( 1. Open the attached file 2. Select the image 3. Select the anchor (to character anchoring) 3. Drag it up line by line (so vertically) I would expect the image to consistently move up one. This isn't the case. 4. Undo everything.. 5. Select the image 6. Drag the anchor for right to left (or visa versa). So horizontally. Image doesn't adapt. Which can be seen as proper behaviour; But obviously doesn't totally fit the distance between anchor & image will be kept the same model. Hover I somewhat have tendency to say 'vertical' position should be relative. But not sure about how the layout code handles this.. To paragraph appears to take the distance (vertically) into account. Horizontally it doesn't, but doesn't need too (as to paragraph by definition anchored to the start of the paragraph.
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*** Bug 132819 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
@Justin Sorry for spamming. Here I take different approach compared to bug 132819. Bug 132819 assumed that the image location being fixed. Moving the anchor not moving the image. Here the topic being that the image should move. However detecting issues (see comment 9) * Moving anchor to character up/down down a line (so vertically) doesn't move the image proportionally; it does only work when moving to different paragraph * Moving anchor to character left/right (so horizontally) over same line of text doesn't move the image. It does for tables (and sections) In search for design/ logic behind all this. Which makes it possible to distinguish bugs from the expected behaviour.
This topic was on the agenda for the design meeting. One opinion is that "anchors are a wild-card, 1000 other bugs needs more attention". To answer Dieter's question: moving the anchor changes the position of the image while moving the image changes its attributes. Your description is more precise, the workflow is flexible and reasonable I suggest to resolve the ticket as NAB.
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #13) > To answer Dieter's question: moving the anchor changes the position of the > image while moving the image changes its attributes. Your description is > more precise, the workflow is flexible and reasonable Thank you for answering my question. So I will add a new bug report in order to add that information to help page. I agree to close it as NAB
No further comment => RESOLVED NOTABUG I've opened bug 145135 to improve documentation
(In reply to Telesto from comment #9) > Created attachment 175511 [details] > Anchor lacking relative size to anchor > > (In reply to Dieter from comment #7) > > (In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #6) > > > Image attributes remain intact and positioning follows. Don't see an issue. > > > > My question to Design Team was, if the following behaviour is the expected > > and intendet one: If you move the anchor from one paragraph to another > > paragraph, LO keeps the distance between anchor and image. If you drag the > > image, you can reduce or expand the distance between anchor and image." > > LO keeps the distance between anchor & image is something what initially > expected, but appears to be more complicated :-( > > 1. Open the attached file > 2. Select the image > 3. Select the anchor (to character anchoring) > 3. Drag it up line by line (so vertically) I would expect the image to > consistently move up one. This isn't the case. > 4. Undo everything.. > 5. Select the image > 6. Drag the anchor for right to left (or visa versa). So horizontally. Image > doesn't adapt. Which can be seen as proper behaviour; But obviously doesn't > totally fit the distance between anchor & image will be kept the same model. > > Hover I somewhat have tendency to say 'vertical' position should be > relative. But not sure about how the layout code handles this.. > > To paragraph appears to take the distance (vertically) into account. > Horizontally it doesn't, but doesn't need too (as to paragraph by definition > anchored to the start of the paragraph. The "to character" behaviour would more correctly be described as "to paragraph containing character". The image position is relative to the start of the paragraph, not the character that the anchor is attached to. That's why you don't see it move when you move the anchor to a new position in the same paragraph (step 3). Try it: if you move the anchor to a new paragraph the image moves to a position relative to the start of the new paragraph that is the same as it was in the old paragraph, even if the new paragraph is much shorter. The Help page is incomplete for this but the guidebook is correct. It would be used, for example, where you have a symbol, word or phrase that the image relates to and you want it to follow the paragraph that the text is in, or relate to the new paragraph if you split or combine paragraphs.
(In reply to Ross Johnson from comment #16) Thank for the comment.. You're description matches the experience