Bug 40879

Summary:	Float tables/images/frames across page boundaries
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	Daniel <daniel>
Component:	Writer	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	aron.budea, daniel, davost, heiko.tietze, jmadero.dev, moritz.ulmer, osmano807, robinson.libreoffice, zen
Priority:	medium	Keywords:	needsDevEval
Version:	Inherited From OOo
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
See Also:	https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89082 https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112704 https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49258
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Bug Blocks:	107656, 107707, 108437

Description Daniel 2011-09-14 06:39:41 UTC

This is a very old feature request raised for OpenOffice in the year 2004 (http://openoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=35545).

1. Insert a big picture into your text document at a place where it will not fit in the remaining white space of the current page.
2. Enter some text after the picture.

Actual result:
The picture is placed on the next page. Subsequent text is placed after the picture. The page before the picture has a lot of white space.

Expected result:
Often, people want to avoid large white spaces. The picture should have a parameter allowing subsequent text to be pulled to the page before the picture. This is known as floating objects in other environments such as LaTeX and applies even to other objects such as tables.

The dialog for pictures and frames features a check box "Follow text flow" whose functionality is quite unclear. Maybe it is aimed at allowing floating objects (as proposed as a workaround in comment 7 of the OOo bug report), but this does not work for me.

Comment 1 Björn Michaelsen 2011-12-23 12:34:46 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)

[This is an automated message.]
This bug was filed before the changes to Bugzilla on 2011-10-16. Thus it
started right out as NEW without ever being explicitly confirmed. The bug is
changed to state NEEDINFO for this reason. To move this bug from NEEDINFO back
to NEW please check if the bug still persists with the 3.5.0 beta1 or beta2 prereleases.
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Comment 2 Florian Reisinger 2012-08-14 14:02:05 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)

Dear bug submitter!

Due to the fact, that there are a lot of NEEDINFO bugs with no answer within the last six months, we close all of these bugs.

To keep this message short, more infos are available @ https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/NeedinfoClosure#Statement

Thanks for understanding and hopefully updating your bug, so that everything is prepared for developers to fix your problem.

Yours!

Florian

Comment 3 Florian Reisinger 2012-08-14 14:03:06 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)

Dear bug submitter!

Due to the fact, that there are a lot of NEEDINFO bugs with no answer within the last six months, we close all of these bugs.

To keep this message short, more infos are available @ https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/NeedinfoClosure#Statement

Thanks for understanding and hopefully updating your bug, so that everything is prepared for developers to fix your problem.

Yours!

Florian

Comment 4 Florian Reisinger 2012-08-14 14:07:40 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)

Dear bug submitter!

Due to the fact, that there are a lot of NEEDINFO bugs with no answer within the last six months, we close all of these bugs.

To keep this message short, more infos are available @ https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/NeedinfoClosure#Statement

Thanks for understanding and hopefully updating your bug, so that everything is prepared for developers to fix your problem.

Yours!

Florian

Comment 5 Florian Reisinger 2012-08-14 14:09:46 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)

Dear bug submitter!

Due to the fact, that there are a lot of NEEDINFO bugs with no answer within the last six months, we close all of these bugs.

To keep this message short, more infos are available @ https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/NeedinfoClosure#Statement

Thanks for understanding and hopefully updating your bug, so that everything is prepared for developers to fix your problem.

Yours!

Florian

Comment 6 Joel Madero 2014-11-05 03:38:26 UTC

Moving to UNCONFIRMED as this hasn't been independently confirmed by QA team - thanks for your patience and understanding.

Comment 7 Robinson Tryon (qubit) 2014-12-22 05:50:40 UTC

(In reply to daniel from comment #0)
> This is a very old feature request raised for OpenOffice in the year 2004
> (http://openoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=35545).

Updated URL:
https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=35545
"Float tables/graphics across page boundaries like LaTeX"

> Expected result:
> Often, people want to avoid large white spaces. The picture should have a
> parameter allowing subsequent text to be pulled to the page before the
> picture. This is known as floating objects in other environments such as
> LaTeX and applies even to other objects such as tables.

Plausible enhancement request. Handing to UX Team for further triage.

Status -> NEW

Comment 8 Robinson Tryon (qubit) 2016-08-25 04:44:46 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)

We're replacing our use of the 'ux-advise' component with a keyword:
 Component -> LibreOffice
 Add Keyword: needsUXEval

[NinjaEdit]

Comment 9 Zenaan Harkness 2016-08-30 04:39:17 UTC

Bug #89082 is similar, naming the same type of problem for frames, and a workaround is provided specifically for images, but possibly will work for other types of object.

Comment 10 Heiko Tietze 2020-10-27 12:30:28 UTC Comment hidden (off-topic)

Don't see how UX can contribute at this stage. Removing the keyword.