https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168705
Bug ID: 168705
Summary: Implement a view mode similar to MS Word's "Draft
View"
Product: LibreOffice
Version: Inherited From OOo
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: enhancement
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Microsoft Words offers several "views" of documents which we don't offer
explicitly (or at all). One of these seems to be "Draft View". As described
here [1]:
> Draft View in Microsoft Word simplifies the writing process by allowing users
> to focus solely on text and content without the distractions of headers,
> footers, and other formatting elements.
This is unlike Web Layout view, which also eschews pagination, footers and
headers, but extends to the width of the page, ignoring paragraph styles; and
also renders images and other objects which, in Draft View, are not rendered.
I believe a Draft View is useful when editing a document, because:
* Pagination is mostly, if at all, important at the late stages of editing
(especially since, initially, one can't predict what would fit on each page
anyway) and
* Pagination can be slow in large documents.
* Rendering all sorts of graphical and external objects, with surrounding text,
is sometimes slow on slower hardware; and may be a little distracting from
editing the actual text.
So, I suggest we introduce this to Writer as well.
[1] -
https://www.nobledesktop.com/learn/microsoft-word/exploring-different-document-views-in-microsoft-word#draft-view-focusing-on-text-and-content
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