This applies to Impress, Draw, Writer and Calc Problem description: The possibility to add a text in an arrow/line is great. However text appears behind the line and looks as "strike through". Depending on text font and line thickness text is very difficult to read. See attachment "standard" Solution Make text appearing in front of the arrow. Additional enable a the choice of background colors for the background of the text. See attachment "artificially created" To the best of my knowledge this feature is not available in MSO, thus a UPS for LibO Operating System: Windows XP Version: 3.6.5.2 release
Created attachment 75994 [details] image how it looks now and how it will look with the new feature
Confirmed. Impress can't make background colours for texts, which would be a solution for that problem. Another solution would be to move the text above the arrow (Format -> Text -> Text -> change the bottom space to the border to get the text above the arrow).
@blubb - Thanks for looking into this bub. Moving text above (or below) an arrow would - from my point of view - only an additional but not an alternative solution. As an additional solution it could be a nice feature.
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To me the comment of the QA administrator is not acceptable. The enhancement is not yet to be seen in 4.3.6. Thus why are enhancement request filed if they will get closed the way it is done here. I am of the impression that someone just closed bug reports/enhancement requests to reduce the number of open issues. I would happily accept a statement. like enhancement will published in version 4.x.. I also can live with a statement like "for technical reasons this is not possible.
Nobody said to close this enhancement. The request is: please test again with current stable version and say us if the reported issue is still there. That said, the text appears in front of the arrow; it is clear if you give the text a color different from the arrow color. You can too move the text above the arrow: click on the text and apply Align Bottom in the sidebar. If you insert a second paragraph with a small font size you can define the distance between the text and the arrow (play with the spacing below the paragraph). The only thing missing for me is that you can't define a background color for the paragraph. Best regards. JBF
Created attachment 113784 [details] test file
@ Jean-Baptistem explanation is accepted. The pre-formulated text of the QA gave me the impression I wrote about. I used the portable version: 4.4.0.3 Build ID: de093506bcdc5fafd9023ee680b8c60e3e0645d7 Locale: en_US Result is the same. By default text appear on front (or behind) the arrow. Not yet a background appearing.to make the text normally to read. Only shifting the text position above or below the line is possible. You also showed this in your example.
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In LO 5.1 you can add highlighting on characters. It acts as background so I consider that this enhancement request is fulfilled. Closing as WorksForMe. Please feel free to reopen if you disagree. Best regards. JBF