Images with Text

[Dale Erwin]

I would like to know if there is any way to insert images in my text
document in such a way that I can then place text superimposed on the
images. So far, I have only been able to put text above or below,
although I seem to remember having put text to the side of an image in
the past. But now I need to put text inside the image. Is there any
way to do that?

Dale Erwin



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[Rory O'Farrell]

On Wed, 23 Mar 2016 12:10:01 -0500

Post by Dale Erwin
I would like to know if there is any way to insert images in my text
document in such a way that I can then place text superimposed on the
images. So far, I have only been able to put text above or below,
although I seem to remember having put text to the side of an image in
the past. But now I need to put text inside the image. Is there any
way to do that?
Dale Erwin

This discussion may help
https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=49615

Also this

https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=43917

[Brian Barker]

Post by Dale Erwin
I would like to know if there is any way to insert images in my text
document in such a way that I can then place text superimposed on
the images. So far, I have only been able to put text above or
below, although I seem to remember having put text to the side of an
image in the past. But now I need to put text inside the image. Is
there any way to do that?

The simplest way is probably to use a text box.
o Go to View | Toolbars > | Drawing in order to display the Drawing
toolbar (perhaps temporarily).
o Click the Text icon ("T") in the Drawing toolbar and drag the
(modified) cursor to create the box.
o Enter the text.

You can drag to resize or reposition the text box and can adjust the
formatting of the text in the usual way.

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker


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[Regina Henschel]

Hi,

Post by Dale Erwin
I would like to know if there is any way to insert images in my text
document in such a way that I can then place text superimposed on the
images. So far, I have only been able to put text above or below,
although I seem to remember having put text to the side of an image in
the past. But now I need to put text inside the image. Is there any
way to do that?
Dale Erwin

There exists several ways to get text onto the image:

(1) You can handle the image as Draw object. Insert it in Draw, write
your text in a text box, arrange text box and image, group it and then
paste it over to the text document.

(2) You can put the image into a frame, set the wrap of the image (not
the frame!) to "Wrap through" and "in Background". Then you can write
your text in front of it.

(3) Insert a frame and set the picture as background of the frame. You
will find "Browse" in the tab Background of the frame properties. Do not
use "Tile" but "Position". Then you can write your text into the frame.

(4) Insert the image in Draw to make it a draw object, do not link it.
Double-click the image in Draw to activate edit mode of the image. Write
your text. Use Format > Text to specify the position of the text. Paste
the image in your text document.

Kind regards
Regina


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[Dale Erwin]

I can't even find the email now, but the first suggestion I read was to
put the image in the background and then type over it, and that seemed
to work just fine. Only problem was that the background was on every
page. So I undid everything, made a new page style for the page with
the image. Now something is happening that I have never experienced
before. When I put the cursor in the page where I want the image to
appear and double-click on the page style I created, nothing happens...
at least that's what I thought but what happened is that the first page
of the document was set to the style and not the page where I wanted the
image.

No matter what page in the document I select, the style gets applied to
the first page, and since the Next style is set to the main style, it is
the only page with the background image. I've never seen this behavior
before. What am I doing wrong? Why doesn't the page style I
double-click get applied to the page where the cursor is?

Dale Erwin

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[James Plante]

Now that you have the page style defined, go to the page *before* the one where you want the background image. Choose Insert —> Manual Break… :: Page, then select your styled page. That will put your page where you want it.

Jim

I can't even find the email now, but the first suggestion I read was to put the image in the background and then type over it, and that seemed to work just fine. Only problem was that the background was on every page. So I undid everything, made a new page style for the page with the image. Now something is happening that I have never experienced before. When I put the cursor in the page where I want the image to appear and double-click on the page style I created, nothing happens... at least that's what I thought but what happened is that the first page of the document was set to the style and not the page where I wanted the image.
No matter what page in the document I select, the style gets applied to the first page, and since the Next style is set to the main style, it is the only page with the background image. I've never seen this behavior before. What am I doing wrong? Why doesn't the page style I double-click get applied to the page where the cursor is?
Dale Erwin
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