[ODFPlugtest] Gouda plugfest: problem case with ODT frames encountered in OEP project

Thu Dec 22 14:40:00 CET 2011

Hi Willen-Jan,

attached you find two version which are stable in their layout regarding
the area of the picture with the two descriptions - one above and one
below.
(See attached file: KIO-experiment-stable-01.odt)(See attached file:
KIO-experiment-stable-02.odt)

These are the changes which I applied:
- the change which you have made, mentioned below, to the text frames in
the left page border around the interesting area.
Anchoring at-character and horizontal position the text frame in relative
to the anchor character gives better control regarding horizontal
positioning, because the paragraph top may be 'extended' by other object
which overlay with the paragraph.
- the picture and its two description are now anchored as-character each in
its own paragraph. The paragraph are tied together by setting 'keep with
next paragraph at the first and the second paragraph.
Anchoring an object (text frame, picture, drawing object, embedded object)
as-character treats the object as a character. Such an object is like a big
letter - simply spoken. Such an anchoring avoids problems regarding text
flow and overlapping. the object flow as characters and overlapping with
each can not happen as character can not overlap each other.

The second version "...stable-02.odt" is the same as the first one except
one change. The paragraphs left indent has been from 0cm to -6cm.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards
Oliver-Rainer Wittmann

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From:	Willem-Jan Veen <willem at lunatech.com>
To:	Oliver-Rainer Wittmann/Germany/IBM at IBMDE
Cc:	ODF Plugfest mailinglist <plugtest at opendocsociety.org>
Date:	24.11.2011 11:04
Subject:	Re: [ODFPlugtest] Gouda plugfest: problem case with ODT frames
            encountered in OEP project

Hi Olivier,

As I promised yesterday, a short explanation of the odd behaviour that I
experienced after some experimenting in openoffice on the
KIO-experiment.odt document, that I gave you during the plugfest. I've made
a few screen shots to visualize the steps I made to recreate this odd
behaviour.

1. open the KIO-experiment.odt and scroll to the page where to change the
frame floating behaviour (KIO-experiment-initial-rendering.png)
2. enter the frame dialog for the frame with text box and change the
anchor-type into "to-character" and the vertical relation to
"char" (KIO-experiment-changing-frame-settings.png)
3. close the frame dialog with [ok] and notice the improved rendering of
the frame with text box
(KIO-experiment-correct-rendering-after-frame-changes.png)
4. save the document and force a reload with the menu option found in
openoffice file menu (KIO-experiment-reload-modified-document.png)
5. after reloading the document, notice the unexpected altered page-layout
(KIO-experiment-broken-rendering-after-reload.png)

I had the same behaviour using neo-office. Both experiments where done on a
Mac Os (Lion).

After this experiment I stopped with experiments to improve the flow of
frames. I'm of course still very interested in a solution that resolves the
issues we have when frames start to flow to another page, both for the
images with a title above and comments below as well as for margin texts
that are encapsulated in a frame. I'm also curious what caused the observed
behaviour in the described experiments. Note that the behaviour is
reproducable in attached document.

Finally, I've similar issues with the flowing of lines in ODT documents,
but I'll devise another simple document to demonstrate this scenario.

Thanks for all the help you may give.

Regards,
Willem-Jan

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On Nov 23, 2011, at 2:25 PM, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote:

> Hi Willem-Jan,
>
> we already had the possibility to talk at the end of the ODF Plugfest in
> Gouda, NL last week about your layout problems in some detail.
> I think I have already given you some hints in order to get more control
> about the layout regarding the flow of text frames in OpenOffice.org
resp.
> Apache OpenOffice.
>
> As promised I am planning to followup on your problems in more detail
when
> I have some resources left. Hopefully, I have some time in the next week.
> I hope it is ok for the rest of the mailing list subscribers, if I post
the
> followup on this mailing list, because - as far as I have seen - the
> problems are more or less related to applications which base on
> OpenOffice.org code than they are related to ODF.
> If not, please let me know.
>
> Willem-Jan: Do not hestitate to ping me, if you have
questions/comments/...
>
>
> Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards
> Oliver-Rainer Wittmann
>
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> 20097 Hamburg
> Phone: +49-40-6389-1415
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> From:		 Willem-Jan Veen <willem at lunatech.com>
> To:		 plugtest at opendocsociety.org
> Date:		 18.11.2011 10:45
> Subject:		 [ODFPlugtest] Gouda plugfest: problem case with ODT
frames
>            encountered in OEP project
> Sent by:		 plugtest-bounces at opendocsociety.org
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> The problem case with frames concern for instance the inclusion of an
image
> with a title on top and additional remarks on the bottom. In the specific
> situation that the image doesn't fit on the remainder of the page, it
> automatically floats to the next page (what is good), but the positioning
> of the frames with title, image and remarks become scrambled.
>
> I've attached a small ODT file which demonstrates this behaviour. It
first
> shows a image with title and remarks which are rendered correctly
position
> to each other. A page further, in identical example is presented but this
> time the image didn't fit on the remainder of the page and floated to the
> next page. You can immediately see the resulting visual effects when
opened
> in openoffice or neo-office.
>
> Please note, that the ODT isn't correctly zipped. The original ODT was
much
> larger, so I unzipped de ODT, manually removed as much content as
possible
> while keeping the problem case intact. I then zipped the ODT quickly by
> hand without placing the file mime type as-is on the starting offset. In
> our experience, this doesn't pose a problem for rendering such a document
> in a word processor. The real system does do the final zip process
> according to specification.
>
> Regards,
> Willem-Jan Veen
>
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