https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160686
--- Comment #20 from Eyal Rozenberg <eyalr...@gmx.com> --- (In reply to David from comment #19) > (In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #18) > > 1. The "blank pages" the PDF has have neither the Left Page nor the Right > > Page style. > Of course not. If you have a page style set to only display on a right page, > then it is going to automatically insert a blank page if needed. ... making this kind of behavior somewhat hackish and not something one can properly control, at least the way it's implemented right now. I realize this may be useful to you, but it should not be one of the set of pre-defined page styles; you would still be able to create such a pair of styles yourself, if you like them. > From the documentation: > "Only right > The current page style shows only odd (right) pages. Even pages are shown as > blank pages. That's the non-sensical part, in two senses: * The concept of a "Right Page" (and "Left Page") is not well-defined, as I've explained in the opening comment. * Given almost any definition I can think of for a "right page" or a "left page" - it is independent of whether the page is odd or even. > It functions exactly as I need it to function and exactly as it was told to > function. If you don't want an automatically inserted blank page, then don't > use a style that sets Right Only or Left Only, but that doesn't mean that > for other people it's nonsensical. I understand that's exactly what you need. But it's still nonsensical pair of terms, and of styles, to have in the default set. I've never met seen a document, or met someone who writes documents, with this particular behavior: Pages with a gutter on the same side on all pages, but alternating page styles (not to mention the blank page behavior). > As I said before, they are if you enable book view. There is no "book view" when editing a document, AFAIK. Moreover, the "Right Page" and "Left Page" both have a gutter on the same side always, so they disagree with a "book view" apriori. > > 3. A blank page is added before the first page, even though there was no > > request to insert such a blank page. > By requesting a Left Only page, you just defined that you wanted that first > page to be on the left side. On the left side of _what_? > Therefore in order to accommodate your request > it will insert a blank page as per the documentation. "as per the documentation" - the documentation documents the behavior, it's not a justification for anything. Anyway, what request? I did not request to have a page before my first page. I "requested" for my first page to be a Left Page, and LibreOffice refused this "request" - making the _second_ page a Left Page, with my first page being blank with part (but not all) of the styling of a Right Page. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
