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Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Full Text Issue Listing |
| Summary: | Unable to visually see forced page breaks | ||
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| Product: | Writer | Reporter: | graaf <sami> |
| Component: | ui | Assignee: | AOO issues mailing list <issues> |
| Status: | CONFIRMED --- | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | Trivial | ||
| Priority: | P3 | CC: | issues, pagalmes.lists, www.openoffice.org |
| Version: | OOo 1.1.2 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | All | ||
| Issue Type: | ENHANCEMENT | Latest Confirmation in: | --- |
| Developer Difficulty: | --- | ||
In OOo the manuel page break is shown by a thin blue line at the beginning of the new page. Unfortunately you can hardly distinguish it from the normal gray line. Therefore one of my first things in customizing OOo is, to set it to a loud color. You can do that in Tools > OpenOffice.org > Appearance > 'Page and column breaks'. Perhabs OOo should use a default color, which is more noticable. I changed the color to magenta, but couldn't see the line until I switched the Text Boundaries on. No wonder I couldn't see it in the first place :) I suspect many people has turned the Text Boundaries off (as I had) out of habit (Word hasn't have them). It's nice to have them as option, but I don't use them as I feel that they clutter the page. Even when the feature is there, the behavior is still inconsistent with other types of breaks: 1) Line and Column break indicators are visible only when 'Nonprinting Characters' is selected. Page break indicators' visibility is linked with Text Boundaries. 2) Line and Column breaks have the indicator in the place where the break occurs. Page break indicator is in the next page (and invisible if only the page where the break occurs is visible) MRU->BH: Page breaks should better be handled by "nonprinting characters". Please take a closer look at kaaredyrets suggestion here: http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=59306#59306 "Symbols and colours are just not enough. I think that text borders, borders around frames etc. could be enhanced just a little, visually... BTW, why not look at how it is done i MS Word, normal view: a line indicates the page break and in the middle it says 'page break', 'section break' using a small font. It is IMPOSSIBLE to misunderstand it or even not to see it." *** Issue 54070 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. *** I agree with the last poster. I need something more obvious that just a colored line. The "in your face" line labeled "page break" in MS Word is a good example.. something that can be revealed or hidden with the "Nonprinting Characters" command. Maybe not critical, but when you are hours on end editing a doc with sleepy eyes, loud markers like that help a lot. Agreed, Word's implementation of breaks is perfect. Why not copy it? Now I can't see breaks because I turn off text boundaries (they distract and irritate me) and normally use Web Layout mode (because Writer lacks Word-like Normal mode). *** Issue 65150 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. *** *** Issue 67344 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. *** I something is planned about this issue, could you please also have a look at issue 67345 ? *** Issue 82353 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. *** *** Issue 43119 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. *** To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on my owner to the owner "requirements". |
Users are unable to see where they have inserted manual page breaks. Forced line- and column breaks are visible when '(Show) Nonprinting Characters' is selected; page breaks are not (inconsistent, hides important information). In MSO this is solved by showing following flag where the page break occurs: ------------Page Break-----------