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resizing, select the Keep ratio option. As for the Crop page, clicking

on the Original Size button restores the original image size.

Rotating a picture

Writer does not provide a tool for rotating a picture; however, there is

a very simple workaround:

1) Open a new

Draw

Impress

document.

2) Insert the image you want to rotate. You can use any of the

mechanisms described in “Adding images to a document” on page

264, although there are some slight variations in the position of

the menu entries and icons.

3) Select the image, then in the drawing toolbar (shown by default at

the bottom of the window in Impress and Draw), select the

Rotate icon .

4) Rotate the image as desired. Use the red handles at the corners of

the picture and move the mouse in the direction you wish to

rotate. By default the picture rotates around its center (indicated

by a black crosshair), but you can change the pivot point by

moving the black crosshair to the desired rotation center.

Tip

To restrict the rotation angle to multiples of 15 degrees keep

the

Shift

key pressed while rotating the image.

5) Select the rotated picture by pressing

Ctrl+A

, then copy the

image to the clipboard with

Ctrl+C

6) Finish by going back to the location of the Writer document

where the image is to be inserted and pressing

Ctrl+V

Other settings

The Picture dialog box (Figure 255) consists of eight pages. The Crop

page was described on page 272, while the use of the Type and the

Wrap pages is explained in “Positioning graphics within the text” on

page 279. The other pages serve the following purposes:

• Options: use this page to give the picture a descriptive name (as

you want it to appear in the Navigator), display alternative text

when the mouse hovers over the picture, and protect some of the

picture settings from accidental changes. You can also prevent

the picture from being printed by deselecting the corresponding

option.

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