Whole page-sized (background) picture/image in LibreOffice Writer 4.2.4

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#1

Hi,

I'm in the process of creating a new stationary based on an image received from a design agency.

The image is supposed to cover the whole page (A4), that is including the space outside the defined page margin settings.

Walking down the path via format->page->background appears to be out of the question as the image is then re-sized to fit into the page margins.

Another route would be inserting an image either into the page header (or footer), and anchor this to a character there, or, alternatively anchor the image to the page itself (format->image/picture->wrap: wrap through, in background).

Only things with this approach, I cannot enter new/change existing text, as the image appears to be in the foreground (albeit having been sent back/to the background, and any existing text is displayed correctly), and whatever I do, I only can edit this image and nothing else.

Am I doing something wrong/forgetting something here?
Isn't this--what I'm trying to achieve--possible at all?
Is it maybe a bug in LibreOffice?

Cheers!

Martin

#2

I'm in the process of creating a new stationary based on an image received from a design agency. The image is supposed to cover the whole page (A4), that is including the space outside the defined page margin settings.

You'll need a printer capable (unusually) of printing to the edge of the paper, of course.

Walking down the path via format->page->background appears to be out of the question as the image is then re-sized to fit into the page margins.

The solution is to set the page margins at zero and then to arrange that the text still remains within the required smaller area. One way would be to set empty headers and footers as spacing at the top and bottom of the page, and to use a paragraph style with suitable indents before and after text. Alternatively, you could use a frame or a table to contain the text and position this where you wanted. But I think the easiest and most effective solution is to put all your text into a section, which can have horizontal indents set to create your side margins, in conjunction with empty headers and footers. A section has the advantage that it will expand as necessary to accommodate text, which will flow naturally from page to page within your contrived margins.

Only things with this approach, I cannot enter new/change existing text, as the image appears to be in the foreground (albeit having been sent back/to the background, and any existing text is displayed correctly), and whatever I do, I only can edit this image and nothing else.

If you have the background image selected - so that the eight green handles show - it can indeed be confusing to find how to get at the text. But you can sometime do this by clicking outside the page area (on the shaded window background) and then clicking back in the text region.

Isn't this--what I'm trying to achieve--possible at all? Is it maybe a bug in LibreOffice?

I suspect that LibreOffice Writer - like other parallel products - is aimed at word processing rather than print layout.

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker