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Writer Guide Chapter 8 Working with Images Copyright This document is Copyright © 2011–2014 by the LibreOffice Documentation Team. Contributors are listed below. You may distribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either the GNU General Public License (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html), version 3 or later, or the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), version 3.0 or later. All trademarks within this guide belong to their legitimate owners. Contributors John A Smith Jean Hollis Weber Ron Faile Jr. Barbara Duprey Jamie Eby Feedback Please direct any comments or suggestions about this document to the Documentation Team’s mailing list: [email protected] Note: Everything you send to a mailing list, including your email address and any other personal information that is written in the message, is publicly archived and cannot be deleted. Acknowledgments This chapter is adapted and updated from Chapter 8 of the OpenOffice.org 3.3 Writer Guide. The contributors to that chapter are: Agnes Belzunce John Kane Vincenzo Ponzi Gary Schnabl Barbara M. Tobias Jean Hollis Weber Michele Zarri Publication date and software version Published 18 June 2014. Based on LibreOffice 4.2. Note for Mac users Some keystrokes and menu items are different on a Mac from those used in Windows and Linux. The table below gives some common substitutions for the instructions in this chapter. For a more detailed list, see the application Help. Windows or Linux Mac equivalent Effect Tools > Options LibreOffice > Preferences Access setup options menu selection Right-click Control+click and/or right-click Opens a context menu depending on computer setup Ctrl (Control) ⌘ (Command) Used with other keys F5 Shift+⌘+F5 Opens the Navigator F11 ⌘+T Opens the Styles and Formatting window Documentation for LibreOffice is available at http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/documentation Contents Copyright..............................................................................................................................2 Contributors.................................................................................................................................2 Feedback.....................................................................................................................................2 Acknowledgments........................................................................................................................2 Publication date and software version.........................................................................................2 Note for Mac users...............................................................................................................2 Images (graphics) in Writer.................................................................................................5 Creating and editing images...............................................................................................5 Preparing images for black-and-white printing.............................................................................6 Adding images to a document............................................................................................6 Inserting an image file..................................................................................................................6 Drag and drop.........................................................................................................................6 Insert Image dialog..................................................................................................................7 Linking an image file....................................................................................................................7 Embedding linked images.......................................................................................................8 Inserting an image from the clipboard..........................................................................................9 Inserting an image using a scanner.............................................................................................9 Inserting an image from the Gallery.............................................................................................9 Modifying an image............................................................................................................10 Using the Picture toolbar............................................................................................................11 Graphics mode......................................................................................................................11 Flip vertically, horizontally or in 90° rotations.........................................................................11 Filters....................................................................................................................................12 Color.....................................................................................................................................12 Transparency........................................................................................................................12 Using the Formatting toolbar and Picture dialog........................................................................13 Cropping images........................................................................................................................13 Resizing an image.....................................................................................................................14 Rotating an image......................................................................................................................15 Other settings............................................................................................................................16 Deleting an image......................................................................................................................16 Using Writer’s drawing tools............................................................................................16 Creating drawing objects...........................................................................................................17 Set or change properties for drawing objects.............................................................................17 Resizing a drawing object..........................................................................................................18 Grouping drawing objects..........................................................................................................18 Positioning images within the text...................................................................................18 Arranging images.......................................................................................................................19 Anchoring images......................................................................................................................20 Aligning images.........................................................................................................................21 Wrapping text around images....................................................................................................21 Editing the contour................................................................................................................23 Example 1: Page wrapping...................................................................................................24 Working with Images 3 Example 2: Simple contour wrapping in action......................................................................24 Example 3: Wrap Through and In Background......................................................................25 Adding captions to images...............................................................................................26 Adding captions automatically....................................................................................................26 Adding captions using the Caption dialog..................................................................................27 Overriding the default positioning of captions............................................................................27 Adding captions manually..........................................................................................................28 Place the graphic and its caption in separate paragraphs.....................................................28 Use a table............................................................................................................................28 Creating an image map.....................................................................................................29 Managing the Gallery.........................................................................................................30 Adding an image to the Gallery..................................................................................................30 Deleting images from the Gallery...............................................................................................31 Adding a new theme to the Gallery............................................................................................32 Deleting a theme from the Gallery.............................................................................................32 Location of the Gallery and the objects