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

On 08/29/11 19:05, Brian Barker wrote:
> 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.
Is there any way to just have pages that are not right or left pages?

> In editing mode, you do not see the blank page, and this may be confusing.
It is confusing because it's wrong behaviour, if it forces people to 
print it, then it should be visible in editing mode.


>   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.
Thanks.
Why do the developers assume something is always going to be printed or 
put on the web?
Maybe there should be a View->PDF Layout.
> Brian Barker


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