Pictures and text

OpenOffice.org 2.x Draw Guide

Chapter 10: Advanced Techniques

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• Drawing to scale
• Drawing a Logic Switching Diagram
• Dimensioning a drawing
• Working with text in Draw
• Text frames and callouts
• Pictures and text
• Fontwork Gallery
• Writer OLE Object
• Guide to Bézier curves
• Drawing Bézier curves
• Transition points
• Transformations

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Pictures also possess a text element. To format this text proceed in exactly the same way as a normal rectangle. You can use this text element to place lettering over the picture or to give the picture a caption. Usually you will produce text as a separate object and then group it with the picture because you have more flexibility in what you can do with the text. Here are two examples showing what is technically possible with text elements. The construction of each is carried out using a format style.

	tab: Font, “Comic Sans MS“, Size 48pt tab: Font Effect, color white, with shadows tab: Alignment, Options Left/Top tab: Text, Text anchor “left upper”, and Spacing to borders left 0.5 cm, all others 0.0 cm
	tab: Font “Albany“, Size 12pt tab: Alignment, Options Left/Top tab: Text, Text anchor “left lower”, and Spacing to borders bottom -1 cm Note: the line break after the word “XX” was inserted manually.

If you store the picture using File > Export the text will be exported along with the graphic. If you use the context menu, Save as graphic, then the text is not exported.