https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=4914
evaned <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #147 from evaned <[email protected]> --- I'm not going to reopen (I'm not even sure I *can*) but I'll give my two cents. The web view (the alternative to print view) has been around for ages, and it doesn't satisfy at least *my* wants along this line. The reason I am voting for and tracking this issue is because the display of pages' top and bottom margins and the space between pages in print view is (i) just visually distracting and (ii) wastes a *ton* of vertical space. (On my small-screened laptop for example, if I set the zoom to a comfortable level for editing then page breaks waste between 1/4 and 1/3 of the vertical space I have for editing.) Web view is *not* a sufficient alternative, and at least for me the cure is worse than the disease. The are a couple problems with it, but they center around the fact that just because I don't care about the top and bottom margins doesn't mean that I don't care at all about the print layout. Some things that you don't have in Writer's web view that you do get in "old" Word's (pre-2007) normal mode: * Page numbers. (No saying or responding to "look at page 7" when in web view, because there is no page 7.) * Line breaks that match the final printed view * Reasonable footnote editing. Old Word displayed footnotes in a separate pane when in normal mode; Writer just puts them at the end of the document. So if you're editing a 20 page document and want to add a footnote, you add it then have to scroll all the way back up to where you were. If you want to edit one, you have to scroll all the way down, then all the way back up. >From at least Word 2002 (probably starting then but I don't have a 2000 install available), a reasonable alternative to normal mode was offered, which is to allow collapsing of the top and bottom margins in print mode. This also addresses the problems: it stops wasting visual space, it mostly stops being distracting, you get page numbers, you get print layout, and you get reasonable footnote editing. (Really I should change my vote to support *that* behavior... #8006. I think I voted here before deciding I liked that more than normal mode..) -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the issue. You are watching all issue changes.
