Issue 82385 - Header and footer cannot exceed left and right page margin
Summary: Header and footer cannot exceed left and right page margin
Status: CONFIRMED
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Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: formatting (show other issues)
Version: OOo 2.3
Hardware: All All
: P3 Trivial with 1 vote (vote)
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Reported: 2007-10-08 12:40 UTC by charlax
Modified: 2013-02-07 22:35 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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Description charlax 2007-10-08 12:40:26 UTC 
I don't know it is a preferred behavior, but the header and the footer cannot exceed the main text frame 
on the left and on the right. Yet it would useful to be able to create an header exceeding on the right and 
on the left, notably for PDF export (since PDF has not the same limitation than printers). And since the 
header is replicated on all the page, it is really useful when using the same wallpaper for all the pages.

A way to implement would be to permit negative value for the left and right margin in the Page 
format:Footer/Header. Or to be able to precise that these value are relative to the paper (i.e. excluding the 
margins) or to the text frame (i.e. including the margins).

This issue is related to the Issue 82318.
Comment 1 charlax 2007-10-08 12:41:32 UTC 
Sorry, it is related to the issue 16181
Comment 2 charlax 2007-10-08 13:15:59 UTC 
Why not making the format->page dialog only relative to the page (i.e. the size of the page, its 
background, its border for the whole page, the presence or not of a header/footer, the global printer 
margins...) ?

And then make the text zone the main frame, the header also a frame, the footer also a frame... For each 
frame, it will be possible to set the border, the background... These frames would be editable as frame 
styles.

I think it would be the most logic thing! Because for the moment we have in the same dialog options only 
related to the page (its size) and some other only related to the main text area (i.e. its margin, columns, 
background and border). Yet a page is a page, and a frame is frame!
Comment 3 michael.ruess 2007-10-08 15:11:54 UTC 
Reassigned to requirements.