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Place Text Beside Image in ODS RTF

tburus — Sat, 13 Jun 2020 15:37:36 GMT

I am trying to create a cover page that has an image and text appearing side by side. The code I currently have places the first line at the end of the image, put then continues on below it. How can I get them to appear inline?

/* cover page */
title j=r color=white bcolor=&Dblue height=10pt font='Arial' "NCAA Football Rules Committee Report     ";
ods rtf text="^S={just=c} NCAA Football Rules Committee Meeting^n Injury Surveillance Report^4n"; 
ods rtf text= "^S={just=l cellwidth=5in preimage='C:/Users/Todd/Dropbox/Datalys/Rules Committee Report/rc_title.png'} 
			^S={just=l vjust=t cellwidth=3in} Submitted to: ^n
			NCAA Women's Softball Rules Committee^4n
			Submitted by:^n
			Datalys Center for Sports Injury Research and Prevention^n
			401 West Michigan Street, Suite 500^n
			Indianapolis, IN 46202^n
			855-832-4222^4n
			Report Date: n/a";
footnote j=c color=white bcolor=&Dblue height=8pt font='Arial' "Datalys Center | 401 West Michigan Street, Suite 500 | Indianapolis, Indiana 46202 | 855-832-4222";

How it looks:

Re: Place Text Beside Image in ODS RTF

ghosh — Sun, 14 Jun 2020 03:58:46 GMT

This is rough and untested obviously. Play with the settings. You can adapt for rtf

ods escapechar='^';
ods _all_ close;
options nonumber nodate orientation=portrait papersize=letter nocenter
	leftmargin=.5in rightmargin=.5in topmargin=.5in bottommargin=.5in;
ods pdf file="~/img/fname.pdf" dpi=300 notoc;

/*  start the absolute layout for the page */
ods layout absolute;
ods region  x=0.0in y=0.0in height=10in width=7in ;

ods pdf text="^S={}";
ods region  x=0.0in y=0in height=1in width=7in   ;
ods pdf text="^S={font=('Arial', 10pt) just=r foreground=white backgroundcolor=blue} NCAA Football Rules Committee Report^S={}  ";
/* ods pdf text="^S={just=r} NCAA Football Rules Committee Report^S={}  "; */
ods pdf text="^S={just=c} ^n^n NCAA Football Rules Committee Meeting^n Injury Surveillance Report^4n^S={}";

ods region  x=0.0in y=1in height=6in width=5in ;

ods graphics on / noborder height=5.8in width=4.9in scale=on;

ods pdf text= "^S={just=l cellwidth=5in preimage='~/img/test.png'} "  ;

ods graphics off;
ods region  x=4.75in y=2.5in height=6in width=2.75in ;

ods pdf text= "^S={just=l vjust=t cellwidth=3in} Submitted to: ^n
			NCAA Women's Softball Rules Committee^4n
			Submitted by:^n
			Datalys Center for Sports Injury Research and Prevention^n
			401 West Michigan Street, Suite 500^n
			Indianapolis, IN 46202^n
			855-832-4222^4n
			Report Date: n/a";

ods region  x=0.0in y=9in height=.5in width=8in ;
			
ods pdf text="^S={just=c foreground=white backgroundcolor=blue} 
 Datalys Center | 401 West Michigan Street, Suite 500 | Indianapolis, Indiana 46202 | 855-832-4222  ^S={}";
			
ods layout end;
ods pdf close;

Re: Place Text Beside Image in ODS RTF

tburus — Sun, 14 Jun 2020 12:43:25 GMT

I appreciate this. That's how I would approach it for ODS PDF as well, but I don't believe ODS Layout Absolute is supported for ODS RTF, and that's what I need to construct this document in.

Re: Place Text Beside Image in ODS RTF

ghosh — Sun, 14 Jun 2020 12:56:12 GMT

Since it's a simple two columns layout, you could look into gridded layout
and output to HTML that can be for example, opened in Word and saved into
RTF