This is half way between a feature request and a bug report (there is a missing part on frame styles UI). Basically, when you edit a frame style you cannot set the anchoring properties... but the style CAN save the anchoring, because if you manually edit the frame and then "update" the style from that frame manually edited frame, the anchor settings is stored on the corresponding style. See a complete description here: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=14008
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The bug is still there in LibreOffice 3.5.4.2 (on Linux). There is still no way to change the anchor style of graphic styles using the UI. However, as was said on the Openoffice bugzilla, it can be done by setting the anchor type of an already inserted graphic object and then using the upper right button "Update styles". This works for user created styles but NOT for default styles. As a consequence, it is NOT possible to change the default anchor style used when inserting a graphic. RB
This bug has been around since 2003. I consider it to be a major annoyance since all my images, figures, etc are normally 'as character', and I need to always manually set that for each new figure.
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Comment #3 is an important distinction and likely points to related bug #36535. Most other attributes do take when the style is updated but altering the anchoring from "To paragraph" to some other value does not. It is also worth noting that the Formula frame style does not update as per the suggested workaround.
I added this bug to the votelist wiki page : https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Vote_for_Enhancement#Votes_-_Writer
I confirm this bug is still present in LibO 4.1.4.2 (Linux).
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I confirm this bug is still present in LibO 4.3.3.1 (Linux).
Bug still present in Version 4.4.2.2 Build ID: 40m0(Build:2) on Xubuntu 15.04. I consider this to be a proper bug, not just an "enhancement".
I'm changing this to a bug, as a feature that requires a work-around to be used is a broken feature. A broken feature is a bug.
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Confirm that this bug is present in LO 5.1.4.2 on Ubuntu 16.04. The workaround is especially painful as the default text editor on Ubuntu really struggles to search/edit with the large XML files 'styles.xml' on my (fairly powerful Lenovo X1, 8GB RAM) laptop. It works better with 'vim', but that's not a 'typical user' tool. My typical usage is to anchor images 'as-char' and frames to 'page'. Available options in the XML syntax are listed here: http://books.evc-cit.info/odbook/ch04.html (does LO have an official version of that reference??) Related problem: when using "Insert -> Frame -> Frame...", the Styles for 'Frame' are not adopted. Instead a weird little 2 cm wide floating frame is inserted. There is no easy way to insert the default-styled frame, which I find weird. Did I miss it?
Bug is still present in Version LO 5.3.x (Windows) - 64 bit.
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Confirmed in version 6.0.2.1.0
Confirmed in 6.0.4.2 (Windows) and 6.0.5.2 (Linux). Please solve this! It's annoying.
This bug has become worse... the workaround of updating styles using the Styles and Formatting panel is not available in LO 5.4. The only open seems to be to manually edit styles files.
This bug has become worse... the workaround of updating styles using the Styles and Formatting panel is not available in LO 5.4. The only option seems to be to manually edit styles files.
One reason of the problem is, that ODF allows the setting "anchor-type" as direct attribute of an object and as part of a style. If both are present, the object attribute "wins". Currently LibreOffice writes it as direct attribute and do not include it in custom defined style. Only the predefined styles have set the anchor-type as part of the style. If you derive your custom style from an predefined style, it will inherit the setting. Currently there is Watermark with anchored to page, and Frame, Graphics, Marginalia and OLE anchored to paragraph, and Formula and Labels anchored as-char.
Regina, Thanks for you analysis. Do you have any suggestions to improve the end user's experience so they are less likely to be confused by this?
(In reply to Luke from comment #23) > Regina, > Thanks for you analysis. Do you have any suggestions to improve the end > user's experience so they are less likely to be confused by this? Not really. You could add a style for each anchor type, so that the user can derive their own styles from that. But there are a lot of other problems, so that a changed implementation would be better.
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Problem still present in 6.3.3
Created attachment 157838 [details] Saved as HTML to open latter
Here's my workaround: Save a html with img tags, and then open the html file with Writer.
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@Heiko Could this be an easy hack? Or has it some hidden complexity
(In reply to Telesto from comment #31) > Could this be an easy hack? Or has it some hidden complexity Wouldn't dare to touch this ;-)
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(In reply to Regina Henschel from comment #22) > Currently LibreOffice writes it as direct > attribute and do not include it in custom defined style. Only the predefined > styles have set the anchor-type as part of the style. Regina, are there any improvements in ODF 1.3?
(In reply to Dieter from comment #35) > (In reply to Regina Henschel from comment #22) > > Currently LibreOffice writes it as direct > > attribute and do not include it in custom defined style. Only the predefined > > styles have set the anchor-type as part of the style. > > Regina, are there any improvements in ODF 1.3? It is not an ODF problem, but a problem in LibreOffice. ODF has the ability to store the needed information in a style.
(In reply to Roland Baudin from comment #2) > The bug is still there in LibreOffice 3.5.4.2 (on Linux). There is still no > way to change the anchor style of graphic styles using the UI. > > However, as was said on the Openoffice bugzilla, it can be done by setting > the anchor type of an already inserted graphic object and then using the > upper right button "Update styles". > > This works for user created styles but NOT for default styles. After spending some time using this work-around to fudge styles, I find that it works initially, but objects with such style are (for want of a better way to put it) unstable: The anchor type (in my case, "To paragraph") remains stable, but the attributes attached to that anchor type may change. In particular, Vertical Position, if specified "From top" by some distance to "Paragraph text area", will change its reference to "Page text area". [It may not be coincidental that "Page text area" is the reference for the default anchor type, which is "To page".] Note that, while the distance with respect to the reference can be changed by updating the style, the reference /type/ (the style attribute which is unstable) cannot be changed in that way. So the work-around can be tedious as well as unreliable.
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133291#c13
(In reply to Regina Henschel from comment #22) > One reason of the problem is, that ODF allows the setting "anchor-type" as > direct attribute of an object and as part of a style. If both are present, > the object attribute "wins". Currently LibreOffice writes it as direct > attribute and do not include it in custom defined style. Only the predefined > styles have set the anchor-type as part of the style. > > If you derive your custom style from an predefined style, it will inherit > the setting. Currently there is Watermark with anchored to page, and Frame, > Graphics, Marginalia and OLE anchored to paragraph, and Formula and Labels > anchored as-char. As (advanced) user, I'll create another anchoring option to "Inherit from applied frame style" on the frame properties dialog. Does that make sense?
(In reply to Olivier Hallot from comment #39) > ... > As (advanced) user, I'll create another anchoring option to "Inherit from > applied frame style" on the frame properties dialog. Does that make sense? I don't know. Aren't 'all' properties inherited from the applied style, except as modified by direct formatting? [Am I understanding your point correctly?]