

Know the difference between a photo image and a graphic imageĪ photo image is a photo (or a painting).Ī graphics image is anything which is not a photo. You can only prevent the Toolbar appearing by deselecting it while an image is highlighted, so select any image so it is highlighted > View > Toolbars. The toolbar now appears whenever an image is selected. , and tick Picture to bring up the Pictures toolbar. It is often useful to switch on the Pictures toolbar

It also gives access to the image or graphic Properties menu which give yet more control allowing you to set gap to text, borders, position etc.Ġ. The context menu has lots of useful commands like Anchor, Wrap, Align etc. right-click an image or graphic to bring up the context menu It is far better to process your images in an image editor so that they are exactly how you want them to appear before inserting them into AOO.Ġ0.

odt/.ods/.odg /.odp etc files - see See Differences between Writer and MS Word files for the many reasons. It is strongly recommended that you always work in, and save, all files as. Chapter 4 - Adding and Formatting Pictures in the Impress Guide.Chapter 8 - Working with Graphics in the OOo v3.3 Writer Manual and.These suggestions are based on minimising the image file size in the file while maintaining the highest sensible quality and are in addition to the information given in It is often best to optimise the images you insert into Writer, Impress and Calc as large images will dramatically increase the. Much applies to Calc, Impress and Draw as well as Writer. While it began life as "How do I reduce image file sizes in Writer documents so as to minimise the document file size?" it has gradually changed into a general discussion about using images in AOO/LO. Edit: Continuously being updated to add information and clarify - some section numbers may change.
