Re: [libreoffice-users] trouble with Page Styles and Fields in Writer

At 16:12 29/08/2011 -0400, James Lockie wrote:
> There are 3 physical pages but I set the starting page# to 1 on the 
> FirstPage so I expect Page-Count to start from there.  There is no 
> way it should even have Page-Count=4.

At 08:26 30/08/2011 +1200, Steve Edmonds wrote:
> LO just can't count.  [...]  Page Count is total pages, [...] 5 is 
> definitely wrong and so is 4 as there are only 3 pages. That's a bug somewhere.

I can explain this bit, which LibreOffice will not see as a 
bug.  Writer considers that you may wish to print your document 
double-sided.  You have set your second page ("first page") to be 
numbered "1", an odd number, and Writer decides that you will 
therefore want this to be a recto (or right-hand page), not the verso 
(or left-hand page) that it would otherwise be.  To achieve this, it 
notionally inserts a blank page between "cover page" and "first 
page".  Including this blank page, you do indeed now have four pages, 
not three.

In editing mode, you do not see the blank page, and this may be 
confusing.  But you can see it in Page Preview.  You will want the 
page to print (as it were) if you are printing double-sided but not 
if you are printing single-sided.  You can control this at Tools | 
Options... | LibreOffice Writer | Print | Other | Print automatically 
inserted blank pages.  Alternatively you can reach the same dialogue 
on the fly via the Options... button in the Print dialogue.

Oh, and I'm not advocating this arrangement, merely describing it.

Brian Barker


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