Hi :) Many printers tend to squish things or ignore anything less than 5mm from the edge of the page. Draw can expand images to fill the entire page now but when you try to print it might chop the thin sliver from the edges.
With most documents it doesn't really matter because people seldom write right up to the edges. You can sometimes set printers to ignore the usual 5mm gap by messing around with the printer properties. Regards from Tom :) --- On Sun, 20/5/12, Jean Weber <[email protected]> wrote: From: Jean Weber <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Typing on top of a background image To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, 20 May, 2012, 1:13 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 -- 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
