Bug 68589

Summary:	Allow linking of text frames in Draw
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	Brennan Vincent <brennanv>
Component:	Drawing	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	medium	CC:	dtardon, iveand, jluth, ribotb
Version:	Inherited From OOo
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	67299, 68259

Description Brennan Vincent 2013-08-27 03:36:43 UTC

Text frames in Writer can be "linked" so that text flows from one to the other: https://help.libreoffice.org/Writer/Inserting,_Editing,_and_Linking_Text_Frames

I can't find any similar feature in Draw. It would be nice if text frames in Draw could do something similar.

MS Publisher feature-compatibility and MS Publisher file import are blocked on this.

Comment 1 Justin L 2013-10-05 11:06:25 UTC

Publisher capabilities are highly desired by us for producing literacy books.  Text Frames need to be a "first class citizen" in Draw for that to happen. (First class meaning text flows, and character/paragraph styles). The Literacy department does not like using Word/Writer for creating books since picture management and other alignment issues are much harder to do in "Word" than in "Publisher".

Comment 2 Owen Genat 2013-12-07 11:11:05 UTC

Bug 64008 is likely requesting the same enhancement, although the bug here is markedly clearer in description. My comment in the other bug has not helped as the summary was originally misleading but now includes the term "flowing". A text box is a type of frame. Even though in ODF v1.2, Part 1, it states:

> 19.118 draw:chain-next-name
> The draw:chain-next-name attribute specifies a name that is used to chain text 
> boxes together for cases where the content of a text box exceeds its capacity. 
> The content flows into the next text box in the chain. The value of this 
> attribute is the name of the next text box in the chain.

... the reference is to a frame (Insert > Frame...) which of course is not available in Draw / Impress as you indicate. I have edited the summary to replace "boxes" with "frames" for consistency with what is stated in comment #0. Version set to Inherited From OOo. Platform set to All/All.

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