Position of graphics and paragraph in a Writer document

[_savage]

As I iterate over the paragraphs of a document, I can access the paragraph's coordinates relative to the first page:

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controller = document.getCurrentController()
cursor = controller.getViewCursor()
par_enum = document.Text.createEnumeration()
while par_enum.hasMoreElements():
    par = par_enum.nextElement()
    cursor.gotoRange(par, False)
    pos = cursor.getPosition() # pos.X and pos.Y are the paragraph's coordinates

I can do the same with the graphics of a document, using the anchors to obtain the graphics' coordinates relative to the first page:

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shape_enum = document.DrawPage.createEnumeration()
while shape_enum.hasMoreElements():
    shape = shape_enum.nextElement()
    cursor.gotoRange(shape.Anchor, False)
    pos = cursor.getPosition() # pos.X and pos.Y are the paragraph's coordinates

However, these coordinates can be quite off from where I see the graphics, even on a different page! I assume that the anchor of a graphics doesn't necessarily represent the position of the graphics itself.

Question: How do I get the real coordinates of a graphics? Looks like using the anchor here is imprecise?

[musikai]

You can get position infos of a graphic object with:

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posx = g.HoriOrientPosition
posy = g.VertOrientPosition

But the values depend on the anchor type and the HoriOrientRelation. If eg. the image is anchored AS_CHARACTER then the values aren't used at all.
If the image is set to be 3cm from left, it can be relative to the paragraph text area or to the entire page or.... There are at least 5 different relations possible.

So also this approach may become complex.

See also:
viewtopic.php?f=20&t=80905#p373220
viewtopic.php?f=7&t=82121