https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=74386
Priority: medium
Bug ID: 74386
Assignee: [email protected]
Summary: UI: Provide obvious way to turn full-page text
boundaries on/off
Severity: normal
Classification: Unclassified
OS: All
Reporter: [email protected]
Hardware: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Version: 4.1.4.2 release
Component: Writer
Product: LibreOffice
I second https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46073#c44
which says:
"The [View/Text Boundaries] approach only turns corner marks on and off. No
sign of full boundaries like the old days.... You are welcome to add my name
to the list of people that want the full boundaries back without having to jump
through hoops to do it."
The full boundaries are available by choosing View > Nonprinting Characters.
IMO the association between "nonprinting characters" and page boundaries isn't
obvious at all.
Users should be able to enable/disable full-page boundaries independently of
showing/hiding nonprinting characters.
Several of the other commenters on the same bug 46073 said the same thing.
Maybe in Tools > Options... > LibreOffice Writer > Formatting Aids there can be
a pair of tickboxes similar to:
Text Boundaries format:
[ ] Crop marks
[X] Full-page boundaries
Then text boundaries in the selected format would be made visible/invisible by
the main menu's View > Text Boundaries, which would have no connection at all
to Nonprinting Characters.
It would be extra lovely if the suggested Options setting would default to
"Full-page boundaries" when LO is installed on a machine that didn't previously
have an LO version with this option.
I have multiple users affected by this, including some for whom this inferior
usability, compared to a widely used commercial word-processor, contributed to
a negative overall view of LibreOffice.
I'm using LibreOffice 4.1.4.2 on Ubuntu 13.04.
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