In all version of Open Office Draw prior to 3.3.0 release, the user used to be able to insert a picture over an existing picture and it would resize/reshape the new picture to the old picture dimensions - shape & size. This was useful for template creation. We could shrink a picture/photo and lock it to a position then insert a fresh photo over the top and it would automatically resize the new picture to the old picture dimensions & position. This is no longer the case and has been broken since open office 3.3.x/Libre office branch/release. As a test. ( test the old behaviour ) Download open office 3.2.0 Get 2 pictures ( different pictures - can be the same/different dimensions ) Insert -> Picture from file Select "Picture 1" and insert it on the page. Scale the the image on the page so it's quite small. While the same picture is selected Insert -> Picture from file Select a "Picture 2" and insert it over the top. You'll notice it scales "picture 2" down to the size/shape/position of "picture 1" Now try the same procedure in Libre Office... You can't insert a picture over the top of the existing picture and have it retain the shape/size/position. It simply adds a new image to the page which then has to be rescaled / repositioned etc. Had to revert back to open office 3.2.0 to get the functionality back.
Could be this extension: http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/ChangePicture what are using before, to do it.
(In reply to comment #1) > Could be this extension: > http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/ChangePicture > what are using before, to do it. No extensions were used. It used to "just" work prior to 3.3.0
[This is an automated message.] This bug was filed before the changes to Bugzilla on 2011-10-16. Thus it started right out as NEW without ever being explicitly confirmed. The bug is changed to state NEEDINFO for this reason. To move this bug from NEEDINFO back to NEW please check if the bug still persists with the 3.5.0 beta1 or beta2 prereleases. Details on how to test the 3.5.0 beta1 can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/BugHunting_Session_3.5.0.-1 more detail on this bulk operation: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/RFC-Operation-Spamzilla-tp3607474p3607474.html
Dear bug submitter! Due to the fact, that there are a lot of NEEDINFO bugs with no answer within the last six months, we close all of these bugs. To keep this message short, more infos are available @ https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/NeedinfoClosure#Statement Thanks for understanding and hopefully updating your bug, so that everything is prepared for developers to fix your problem. Yours! Florian