Bug 35563 - FORMATTING: Add text wrapping around images
Summary: FORMATTING: Add text wrapping around images
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Impress (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
3.4 all versions
Hardware: Other All
: medium enhancement
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Keywords:
: 37780 92040 99339 113575 (view as bug list)
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Blocks: DTP Impress-Images Draw-Images
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Reported: 2011-03-22 12:54 UTC by Theon144
Modified: 2024-01-25 05:50 UTC (History)
15 users (show)

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Description Theon144 2011-03-22 12:54:57 UTC
I'd like to see the same feature that already exists in Writer: Text wrapping around images, so I don't have to "dodge" the image manually with line breaks and such.
Comment 1 Björn Michaelsen 2011-12-23 11:49:53 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 2 sasha.libreoffice 2012-01-23 08:16:10 UTC
I agree that it is useful. In Impress text is only inside of text frames. And images are separate objects. We can not insert image into text frame, it always remains standalone. 
It is especially important when using formulas as pictures inside of text. Each change of font (usually different comps has slightly different fonts) renders to corrupted slide.
Only one workaround I know: create content in Writer and insert it into Impress as OLE object.
Comment 3 sasha.libreoffice 2012-01-25 22:18:59 UTC
*** Bug 37780 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 nuno.ponte 2013-12-10 16:04:58 UTC
Another workaround:
1. draw a polygon object
2. adjust text position (usually top right corner)
3. enable Fit to contour option
4. disable contour line
5. hit F2
6. paste text inside the polygon object

Source: link to "how-to-wrap-text-around-objects-in-OO_o-3_3_0.odp" in http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=131394#448773
Comment 5 David Tardon 2015-06-13 08:30:37 UTC
*** Bug 92040 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Melroy van den Berg 2015-08-27 20:21:17 UTC
This should be obviously one of the main basic features in a dia presentation application. You should be able to at least wrap your text around an image! Ye, also in Impress.

Can this issue get assigned to a main developer with some prio?
Comment 7 Melroy van den Berg 2015-08-27 20:37:22 UTC
(In reply to sasha.libreoffice from comment #2)
> I agree that it is useful. In Impress text is only inside of text frames.
> And images are separate objects. We can not insert image into text frame, it
> always remains standalone. 
> It is especially important when using formulas as pictures inside of text.
> Each change of font (usually different comps has slightly different fonts)
> renders to corrupted slide.
> Only one workaround I know: create content in Writer and insert it into
> Impress as OLE object.

How to export the document to OLE?
Comment 8 Maxim Monastirsky 2015-08-27 20:43:49 UTC
(In reply to Melroy van den Berg from comment #6)
> Can this issue get assigned to a main developer with some prio?
There is no such thing as "main developer", and there are no priorities. The Document Foundation has no paid developers at all, and you can't force volunteers to do what they don't like. (It is true that some developers are paid by some companies (like RedHat, Collabora and other), but then only these companies can decide what these developers will do, not TDF). This might be disappointing for some people, but that's the reality of the world we're living in.
Comment 9 Melroy van den Berg 2015-08-27 22:49:07 UTC
(In reply to Maxim Monastirsky from comment #8)
> (In reply to Melroy van den Berg from comment #6)
> > Can this issue get assigned to a main developer with some prio?
> There is no such thing as "main developer", and there are no priorities. The
> Document Foundation has no paid developers at all, and you can't force
> volunteers to do what they don't like. (It is true that some developers are
> paid by some companies (like RedHat, Collabora and other), but then only
> these companies can decide what these developers will do, not TDF). This
> might be disappointing for some people, but that's the reality of the world
> we're living in.

You are right Maxim. I think the world is better off without money and companies who control us. Maybe we need to find a better way to get paid for Free Software, and still be able to do what we like to do. 

Did the Document Foundation never started a Kickstarter project? Or get sponsors / donations from big companies. Just like a charity. Big companies, including banks own that to us all!!
Comment 10 dE 2015-08-30 10:59:02 UTC
Doesn't this feature already exists (from ages)?

Wrap > page wrap on right clicking the image.
Comment 11 dE 2015-08-30 11:00:49 UTC
(In reply to dE from comment #10)
> Doesn't this feature already exists (from ages)?
> 
> Wrap > page wrap on right clicking the image.

Ok, sorry this was with Impress.
Comment 12 Melroy van den Berg 2015-08-30 21:04:23 UTC
Exactly, this feature should exists already, but it doesn't ><
Comment 13 Robinson Tryon (qubit) 2015-09-03 10:36:20 UTC
All bugs with priority=highest should have a Version set. It sounds like this feature has been desired since at least 2011, so at the latest, LO 3.4.

Version -> 3.4 all versions
Comment 14 testjava 2015-11-24 21:03:49 UTC
Bug /missing feature confirmed on:
Version: 5.1.0.0.alpha1
Build-ID: a8e4f75fe264f6ece37c154951cff53f2f4fa3e4
Gebietsschema: de-DE (de_DE)
Windows XP

I inserted directed in the textbox as an image and was used as a backgroud. I also pasted outside the textbox but then the text was hidden.
Comment 15 sam tygier 2016-01-31 12:39:01 UTC
I posted a bounty for this issue https://www.bountysource.com/issues/11637524-formatting-add-text-wrapping-around-images
Comment 16 Regina Henschel 2017-11-01 21:31:53 UTC
*** Bug 99339 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 17 Regina Henschel 2017-11-01 21:36:35 UTC
*** Bug 113575 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 18 Xisco Faulí 2019-05-15 15:39:54 UTC
Although this enhancement request is much appreciated to have, I think we can leave without it too, Changing importance to High
Comment 19 Jason White 2019-08-14 15:40:43 UTC
+1 on this. There is currently a $100 bounty for completion.
Comment 20 Xisco Faulí 2019-11-29 13:29:09 UTC
Changing priority back to 'medium' since the number of duplicates is lower than 5
Comment 21 john.harvey.math 2023-10-03 16:29:05 UTC
I have just come up against this issue. At first I couldn't quite understand what was happening. This should definitely be elevated to high priority as it is a really basic aspect of making a presentation.

If 5 duplicates is considered enough to set something as high, then I can open my own bug report and mark it as a duplicate! But that does not seem the right way to go about things, so I'll just ask that someone with the credentials to change priority levels kick it back up to high again.
Comment 22 OdinWill 2024-01-25 05:50:05 UTC
Soo ... the code for this issue (if people want to poke at it is) is here:

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/tree/sfx2/source/appl/shutdowniconw32.cxx#n767

The status of that check-box is not a setting that is stored in the normal way - in the configuration of LibreOffice; but instead is something that relies on the existence (or not) of a shortcut in a magic place on your desktop:

https://whizzdot.com

Shows how IsQuickStarterInstalled - (better named 'is it enabled') is implemented; and I guess (somehow) when we remove / update the version then - we remove the old version of that link during some MSI cleanup phase, and then don't restore it (?) or something.