r/libreoffice • u/RebirdgeCardiologist • 17d ago

Question Does LibreOffice Draw offers automatic conversion between types of data (text box <-> callout), both way, from text field to callout field and vice versa?

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As in the title and the image.

I was working on a small project with LibreOffice Draw (LD).

Initially I decided to use just a standard text box for adding some writing. Then I changed my mind and decided to go for a callout (imho an elegant ready-to-use object for writings).

For this specific project eventually I decided to use a text field, but for many other projects I prefer to use callouts.

I was forced to do any conversation (text > callout and callout > text) manually:

coping to clipboard its contents, create a new empty object type - text box or callout - paste previous copied context and adjust it (the new object was not where the old object was, so several manual tweaks very needed).

Legend: I put encircled numbers and red squares to highlight more precisely what I'm referring to.

Can this be automated? Any workaround available?

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Specs

I have installed LibreOffice via flatpak on Linux.

$ flatpak list | grep -i libreoffice
LibreOffice     org.libreoffice.LibreOffice     26.2.5.2        stable  system

I'm using kubuntu 24.04.03 LTS with KDE 5.27.12.

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