[softwarelist] Re: Ov Pro Insert Page

  • From: Dave Symes <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 09 May 2014 18:34:58 +0100

In article <7373070554.Alan.Adams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
   Alan Adams <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In message <540503478fdave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>           Dave Symes <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > On 08 May, dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

[Snip]

> > Go to the document and copy graphic frame to clipboard. (I've checked,
> > it is on the clipboard). Click caret in the middle of some text in the
> > edit document and do Menu-Edit-Embed object.

> > It doesn't...
> > Instead it creates a new page below the page in which it should be
> > embedded, and that page has no caret but does have an overflow arrow on
> > the bottom.

[Snip]

> Is the graphic a Draw file? I ask, because sometimes the bounding box 
> of a draw file is much bigger than the space needed to enclose the 
> objects, or there is a tiny object way outside the wanted area causing 
> a large bounding box.

> The symptoms you are describing are like those when a graphic doesn't 
> fit the remaining space. The blank with overflow arrow is when the 
> graphic is too big to fit on a page on its own.

> Rectifying a Draw bounding box is usually a case of loading into Draw, 
> making a trivial change, and re-saving. (The change can be add, then 
> delete an object.)

Nope, they are all jpegs and are at 100%.
I'm just copying them to the clipboard in the old OvPro document, then
embedding (trying to) in the new document chapter.

Remember in the second part of my attempts, I'm just trying to embed an
empty frame.

Dave

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