Re: [libreoffice-users] Page Numbering Difficulties

Hi Frank,

CVAlkan schrieb:
> I'm using LibreOffice Version: 4.2.0.1 Build ID:
> 7bf567613a536ded11709b952950c9e8f7181a4a
> with 64 bit Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
>
> I have a reasonably large document (over 300 pages) which has several
> appendices - each of which has specific page style formatting.
>
> So, I created page styles for each of the appendices. At the end of the body
> of the text, I did "Insert | Manual Break", checked "Page Break", picked the
> style for the first appendix, and DID NOT check the "Change Page Number"
> box.
>
> I then repeat the process for each succeeding appendix.
>
> This seems to work fine, and the page numbers continue from the previous
> portion just as I would expect. BUT-BUT:
>
> BUT - if I paste or insert anything into ANY of the appendices, the
> beginning page for each of the appendices changes to 0 (zero). This can be
> confirmed both with the page number displayed in the footers as well as the
> "Page n/n" display on the bar at the bottom of Writer.
>
> To "fix" this, I need to go to the end of each part of the document, delete
> all of the carriage returns (how can I make the page breaks visible, by the
> way?), and then do the "Insert | Manual Break" sequence all over again.
>
> So I've now come to the conclusion that I shouldn't bother redoing this
> until I'm finished with the document, as it seems quite Sisyphean to do so.
>
> This is seriously, seriously annoying. I tried duplicating this problem with
> a very small document, but of course everything works flawlessly (I think).
>
> So - three questions:
> 1) Does anyone have any idea what is going on? Is it something I'm doing, or
> is this perhaps a bug?
>
> 2) I would think that one could view where the page breaks are in a
> document, but I can't seem to figure out how to do that. Is this possible
> and, if so, how?
>
> 3) Unlike other styles, it doesn't seem possible to create a page style that
> is "linked with" (i.e. "based on") another page style. Will this ever be
> possible?
>
> Thanks very much for any pointers. I'm spending so much time fighting with
> this that I've almost forgotten what it is I'm writing about in the first
> place ...

You are likely affected by
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73164
and/or
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72452

Please try your document (a copy of it!) with a current build from trunk 
or go back to version 4.1

Kind regards
Regina


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