Bug 92745 - Ability to drag image partially off the page
Summary: Ability to drag image partially off the page
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 50206
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
Inherited From OOo
Hardware: Other All
: medium enhancement
Assignee: Not Assigned
URL:
Whiteboard: interoperability
Keywords: needsDevEval, topicUI
Depends on:
Blocks: Writer-Images Writer-UX
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Reported: 2015-07-15 02:10 UTC by Brock McNuggets
Modified: 2017-10-23 07:13 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Attachments
Allowing dragging an image partially off the page (3.06 MB, image/png)
2015-07-15 14:36 UTC, Brock McNuggets
Details
Dragging an image (1.24 MB, video/mp4)
2015-07-15 15:37 UTC, Brock McNuggets
Details
open file with image moved partially off page (883.54 KB, image/png)
2015-07-15 15:53 UTC, Brock McNuggets
Details

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Description Brock McNuggets 2015-07-15 02:10:38 UTC
Image is stuck to page bounds.

Shown here - older version but still applies.

https://youtu.be/w6Qcl-w7s5c?t=3m18s
Comment 1 Jean-Baptiste Faure 2015-07-15 07:16:44 UTC
Please, describe step by step how to reproduce the problem. Your video stored in an external server may be becoming some day unavailable if it is removed from this server or if the service disappears.

Set status to NEEDINFO, please, set it back to UNCONFIRMED once you have
provided requested information.

Best regards. JBF
Comment 2 Brock McNuggets 2015-07-15 07:36:17 UTC
Step 1: Drag image - any image you have in your Writer document. 
Step 2: Try to drag it so it is partially off the page.

This fails.
Comment 3 Jean-Baptiste Faure 2015-07-15 08:23:58 UTC
It is not a bug, the bug would be to allow to move an image outside the page.

Closing as NotABug.

Best regards. JBF
Comment 4 Brock McNuggets 2015-07-15 14:36:25 UTC
Created attachment 117255 [details]
Allowing dragging an image partially off the page
Comment 5 Brock McNuggets 2015-07-15 14:37:53 UTC
Comment on attachment 117255 [details]
Allowing dragging an image partially off the page

The idea is not to have the image be completely off the page - then it would not be of any value. The idea is to have it partially off the page, as I show in the image.
Comment 6 Jean-Baptiste Faure 2015-07-15 14:59:43 UTC
(In reply to Brock McNuggets from comment #5)
> Comment on attachment 117255 [details]
> Allowing dragging an image partially off the page
> 
> The idea is not to have the image be completely off the page - then it would
> not be of any value. The idea is to have it partially off the page, as I
> show in the image.

Why do you want the developers modify the code when you can do the same thing by cropping your image?

Best regards. JBF
Comment 7 V Stuart Foote 2015-07-15 15:32:54 UTC
Understand the enhancement as it would allow a composition area beyond the document canvas, and that an image or graphic could extend beyond the edges--but would be "cropped" back to the canvas by the Writer page settings.

This is already implemented in Draw/Impress, but in Writer, as with many functions, it has a different code base.

Suspect the effort needed to implement independently in Writer is not justified--but that it should be a facet of eventual refactoring image/graphics into a common code for use across all the modules.
Comment 8 Brock McNuggets 2015-07-15 15:37:36 UTC
Created attachment 117258 [details]
Dragging an image
Comment 9 Brock McNuggets 2015-07-15 15:37:51 UTC
(In reply to Jean-Baptiste Faure from comment #6)
> (In reply to Brock McNuggets from comment #5)
> > Comment on attachment 117255 [details]
> > Allowing dragging an image partially off the page
> > 
> > The idea is not to have the image be completely off the page - then it would
> > not be of any value. The idea is to have it partially off the page, as I
> > show in the image.
> 
> Why do you want the developers modify the code when you can do the same
> thing by cropping your image?
> 
> Best regards. JBF

It is much easier of you can simply drag an image and look at it then move it if desired instead of cropping, moving, removing, re-cropping, etc.

I have attached an example showing how this works on two competing products. Just drag and move the image.
Comment 10 Brock McNuggets 2015-07-15 15:53:25 UTC
Created attachment 117259 [details]
open file with image moved partially off page

Additional reasoning: if you open a file from the competing product the image is moved and the formatting is altered. See attachment for an example.
Comment 11 Robinson Tryon (qubit) 2016-08-25 05:39:06 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 12 Yousuf Philips (jay) (retired) 2016-09-28 08:15:36 UTC
Setting to NEEDINFO for code pointers.
Comment 13 QA Administrators 2017-03-28 08:18:25 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 14 Brock McNuggets 2017-03-28 21:04:04 UTC
Not sure what more information is being requested. In competing products you can have an image partially off the page, as is done in many types of documents. Above I show an image of this in a competing product compared to LO where, as far as I know, it cannot be done.

Perhaps someone can point me in the direction of what more information would be required for others to confirm this?
Comment 15 Brock McNuggets 2017-03-28 21:07:00 UTC
I see above where the request for more info is tied to "code pointers" -- I have none. I am not a developer, I am a user of the product. I do not know the code base and have never looked at the code. If I did while I have enough experience where parts might make some sense to me, for the most part it would be completely over my head.

Does one need to become a programmer to submit an issue tied to a usability issue?
Comment 16 V Stuart Foote 2017-03-29 00:07:58 UTC
As in comment 7, valid enhancement -> NEW

But, still could use code pointers.
Comment 17 Yousuf Philips (jay) (retired) 2017-10-23 07:13:18 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 50206 ***