Openoffice Document Problem

[brainiac]

I have scanned a template of a certificate into my laptop, and I want to find a way of calling up the blank document in OpenOffice in landscape so I can then fill in recipient's name etc. Is this possible, and if so, how do I rotate it? Tools and View don't help. I'm sure Buenchico knows! Thanks

[jno]

Format>Page>Orientation

[brainiac]

Thanks, but just made the document go wider, didn't rotate it

[jno]

it should have rotated, it does on my computer. Are you trying to make it a landscape document (ie wider than it is high) instead of portrait?

[brainiac]

The certificate I have scanned is A4 landscape. I want to get it on my screen in landscape so I can write on it

[pinkyboyid]

If it is the text that you require to rotate 90 degrees then Highlight the entire text and from the menu bar select Format>Character>Position and tick the 90 Degrees option and click OK,

[brainiac]

I need to rotate the whole thing, otherwise it would no longer be landscape, just the text squashed into a portrait format...

[jno]

what do you actually see on your screen now?

[pinkyboyid]

What file format is the scanned document in, e.g. is it scanned to a .pdf file format?

[Buenchico]

Pinkyboyid has beaten me to it but I'll ask again anyway:
What format have you scanned the document into?

However, thinking how I fill in scanned forms myself, I'm not sure that you'll be able to do it in OpenOffice Writer (or in any other word processing program, such as Microsoft Word) anyway.

I use either an image-processing program (such as Gimp) to add text onto a 'photo' of the document or a DTP program (such as Serif PagePlus SE) to import such a 'photo' onto the page and then create text fields on top of it.

[walkthrough]

Hello,

the template is a graphic than and than you can rotate it and add a shadow: right click, Area, Shadow tab.

By Anaya,
http://www.3d-architectural-rendering.com/3D-Walkthrough.html