Created attachment 118409 [details] Very Basic Impress File from scratch [This is a regression] Inserting an image in an Impress presentation inserts this image in multiples. Reproduce: 1. Open an Impress file (e.g. basic as in attachment) 2. Select some place where to insert an image inside the slide 3. Open the image file (e.g. from attachment) 4. Result: the whole frame is filled with duplicates of the image Simple Workaround: Insert the image outside of the slide and drag it into the desired location on the slide.
Created attachment 118410 [details] Simple image that fills whole slide at 'insert image'
Doing Insert > Image, I do not reproduce the problem. Please, could you describe in more detail how do you proceed to insert the image? What is your OS and your CPU (32 or 64 bits)? Best regards. JBF
Open the .odp as attached (or any other) Open the image as attached (or any other) Click the text box anywhere, Insert->Image Select the image as above Result: attached screen shot OS: Ubuntu, Libreoffice from Libreoffice download, .deb, 64-bit
Created attachment 118462 [details] Single Image->Insert
Insert > Image ask you for an image file. So why the step "Open the image as attached (or any other)"? Open the image with what? LibreOffice? Best regards. JBF
Sorry, that ('open') is supposed to be Insert->image
(In reply to Uwe Dippel from comment #3) > Click the text box anywhere, This is the key step. When you add an image to a textbox, it's used as the background of the textbox. You can control the placement of the image via right click->Area... . Closing as NOTABUG, since it works as designed.
Why does everyone always invent features without activating their good old nerd brain? FOSS has always been about straightforward, and being in control. Why does everyone try to imagine what I want to do, nannying me? No, that's not okay (to assume that I want the image as background). If I click 'insert->image' and nothing else that's exactly what I want to do. If it is as you say, which is principally a good OPTION, an option 'insert->image [as background]' is the right thing to offer; not override the obvious.
What does mean inserting an image inside a text box in a presentation? For me text box is for text, not for image. Please, could you explain your workflow and the result you want? Best regards. JBF
Thanks for asking! I am new to (the new) Libreoffice, so to say, so I am not used to a program that tries to do the thinking for me. My workflow, to call it that, is to produce slides for my lectures and I usually just open a new slide (or duplicate the previous one) with either one text box or 2 in as columns. Then - and that is what I was able to do until now - write some text into the box and add some drawing, or just put a drawing, resize it so that I can add some remarks, sentences, or such. Some of the boxes contain only drawing or only text. I know, and wrote, the simple workaround: clicking some place outside the slide ('workbench') and then insert->image, and then drag the image into the textbox. It is possible, though a bore. Why can't I click where I want the image and insert->image and actually get it there?? If one wanted it as background, and tiled(!) I'd prefer that one has to say so. I don't want any developer to be able to take such an arbitrary decision for the user. Maybe someone wants all images inserted to be scaled? or cropped? What a nonsense! It is somewhat similar to the 'clever' behaviour of (the new) LibreOffice filed as bug as well, that I cannot prevented it from scaling and snapping any image into a chosen layout (bug 93924). These really put me off from liking LibreOffice as much as I would.
(In reply to Uwe Dippel from comment #10) > Some of the boxes contain only drawing or only text. A textbox is not able (and was never able) to contain an image. The best you can do is to place the image on top of the textbox, not inside. > I know, and wrote, the simple workaround: clicking some place outside the > slide What you actually need is to make sure that the textbox isn't selected. So you can also click anywhere in the slide. > Why can't I click where I want the > image and insert->image and actually get it there?? Because what you want is not to put the image inside the textbox, but get a floating image and drag it on top of the textbox.
Maybe I used the wrong terminology, sorry! I don't mean textbox, of course! I mean the Layout. There are 12 options here for layout, with title, with masthead and title in the center, with masthead and two colums, and so on. Until LibreOffice 5.0 came on my desktop, I could click into those 'boxes' (NOT textboxes, of course!) and insert an image there. Promised. Without the image being used as background, but as image. Try my first attachment, write some text, insert an image, and what you get is a tiled background image for that box. No, that doesn't make sense, sorry. And sorry again for the 'textbox', I know that's something else. I was not precise.
(In reply to Uwe Dippel from comment #12) > I mean the Layout. There are 12 options here for layout, with title, with > masthead and title in the center, with masthead and two colums, and so on. OK, thanks for clarifying. My observation now is: - If the selected box is empty, the inserted image replaces the box (this is definitely the right behavior). - If the selected box has some text, it's treated as a textbox, and the image inserted as a background of it. > Until LibreOffice 5.0 came on my desktop Any idea when it behaved differently? I tried with 4.4 and it's the same there. > Try my first attachment, write some text, insert an image, and what you get > is a tiled background image for that box. No, that doesn't make sense, sorry. I'm not sure. If there is a selected object, isn't the expectation that changes will be applied to this object as much as possible, rather than creating new floating objects? Anyway, let's pass this to ux-advise.
Hi ux-advise, Currently inserting an image in Impress while a drawing object (like a shape or a textbox) is selected, makes the image "inserted" into this object, so it's used as the fill. The questions are: 1) Is it the desired behavior, or maybe the "Insert Image" action should always create a new floating image? 2) Is there any difference in this regard between a shape, a textbox, and a layout frame? Thanks!
(In reply to Maxim Monastirsky from comment #14) > Hi ux-advise, Hey Maxim, > Currently inserting an image in Impress while a drawing object (like a shape > or a textbox) is selected, makes the image "inserted" into this object, so > it's used as the fill. Yes i had seen this behaviour before in writer and believe it is fine. > The questions are: > 1) Is it the desired behavior, or maybe the "Insert Image" action should > always create a new floating image? If text is selected and we insert more text, the selected text is replaced. If you select an image, and then insert a new image, the selected image gets replaced. So one option is that if an object is selected, inserting an image should replace it (this happens in impress when you select a textbox and insert an image). > 2) Is there any difference in this regard between a shape, a textbox, and a > layout frame? Well its likely it has one behaviour when the shape/textbox/frame is selected and another behaviour when you are editing in the shape/textbox/frame.