On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Jean Weber <[email protected]> wrote: > On 19/05/2012, at 16:58, Florian Reisinger <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Am 19.05.2012 08:02, schrieb Jean Weber: >>> I received the following question from a friend: >>> >>>> If I have a paper form to fill out, I'd like to be able to scan it and use >>>> it >>>> as a background image to a page, and type on top of it. I did manage >>>> to insert an image of a form, but could not, even with flow-through, >>>> type on the page. >>> Is there a keystroke combination to switch between the graphic and >>> the text? I can't find one. So... here is my workaround: >>> >>> Before inserting the image, press Enter once or twice to add a couple >>> of blank paragraphs to the page. Then insert a page break so you have >>> at least one blank paragraph on each page. >>> >>> Make the margins really narrow on the page to have the image (or both >>> pages; doesn't matter). Now insert your image, setting the anchor to >>> "To page" and the wrap to "In background". Adjust the image size to >>> fill the page. >>> >>> Go to the page without the image, click in a blank paragraph, and then >>> use the arrow keys to move the text insertion point into a paragraph >>> on the page with the image. Now you can type! (It helps greatly to >>> have end-of-paragraph markers turned on.) >>> >>> Any other ideas? >> Why don't you insert the image as a background >> (Translated from German UI): Format -> Page, Tab Background; Drop-Down list >> -> graphic >> In my case it worked >> > > I thought I'd tried that, but maybe not. Will do it again, paying more > attention this time. Thanks! > > Jean
Yes, that worked. The problem I remember from the time I tried it before (probably with OOo) was that I had not been able to set the page margins to zero to make the background image fill the entire page. (Perhaps I made a mistake then, or perhaps the software has changed. Doesn't matter.) I did not have that problem this time (just a warning message that it would go outside the printable area). So... thanks for the pointer, and I will write up the proper solution for the blog! --Jean -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
