Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 30134
Drawing-objects in the Gallery
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:37:28 UTC
Hi, In Word 97 there is a feature called AutoShapes. You can use this to insert all kinds of basic drawing shapes in a document, like arrows, stars, banners etc. In OpenOffice.org you have to draw these yourself if you want them, the only basic shapes are rectangles, ellipses and such. Now I first thought it would be possible to achieve something similar to Autoshapes using the Gallery, adding a collection of various arrows, etc. into it. However, that is much less flexible. Images from the gallery (also if they are vector images) are inserted as rectangular images, and you cannot, for example, change the line and area attributes of the arrows anymore. So I now want to propose a feature so that you can save drawing-objects from Draw into a file, adding them into the Gallery, and inserting them from the Gallery into a document as if they had been copy-pasted from an open Draw document. This would make the Gallery much more useful. It may be possible that the drawing, containing the object, need simply be saved as as an .sxd (which format, by the way, cannot currently be used in the Gallery) or an .svm (which can). The Gallery configuration files should indicate if the file is to be inserted either as an image or as an object. An option to select this should then be added to the dialog where files are added to the Gallery.
Created attachment 15856 [details] examples of the kinds of shapes I mean
Reassigned to Bettina.
Hi, I found out that it's possible after all. In Draw, select an object, click on it and hold the left mouse button (pretty long) until the cursor changes into an arrow with a grey rectangle. Then you can drag the object into the Gallery.
This issue may closeable because: - 1.9.x has CustomShape features - Draw and other vector based element was always drag and dropable to gallery. I created my Gallery on this way... Project older: http://hu.openoffice.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentList?folderID=377&expandFolder=377&folderID=375 Current version: http://office.fsf.hu/work/Gallery-1-20.zip
http://www.openoffice.org/nonav/issues/showattachment.cgi/15856/pijlen.sxd If it has a free licence I can add it to my gallery. If you have more stuff to the gallery I will be happy:o)
Any news from that issue? Should't it be closed?
No, because it is still not working.
Do we need a spec for it?
To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on my owner to the owner "requirements".