Pictures, Images

Pictures, Images
	Chapter 3. Text and Images

Abstract

Insert a picture into a slide

Unlike text which has to be inserted into a text box, a graphic does not need a container. It is inserted directly into a slide. Once it has been inserted, it can be resized and moved.

Insert a slide after the Features slide using the Title only layout. Give the slide the name Photographs.
Insert the words Photographic Gallery into the text box.
Change the text to Arial or Helvetica blue.
Insert->Graphics.

This will display the Insert graphics dialogue. Using this you will locate the directory / folder containing your graphics images.

The dialogues are somewhat different in Linux and Windows.

Insert a graphic under Linux

Tick the Preview check box so that you can view each of the images on disk.
Select the graphic you wish to insert and click Open.

Insert a graphic under Windows

In the View menu select Thumbnails. Alternatively, check the Preview check box to display a preview of the current file.
Select the graphic you wish to insert and click Open.
Insert some appropriate graphics into the Photographs slide.
File->Save

Insert graphics using the OpenOffice.org gallery

Another method of inserting graphics is to use the Gallery.

Go to the Photographs slide.
Tools->Gallery.

This will display the graphics gallery.
Click Rulers.
Click on one of the images.
Drag it onto the slide by holding down the left mouse button and releasing it when it is below the title as shown on the next screen.
Close the gallery with Tools->Gallery.
File->Save.

Insert an image into a slide

OpenOffice.org does not distinguish between pictures and images. Hence the methods described in the previous paragraph are equally applicable to images.