Re: [libreoffice-users] Page formatting in writer goes nuts

On 09/04/2016 02:34 PM, Wiebe van der Worp wrote:
> On 04-09-16 20:26, Bo Siltberg wrote:
> > I have a large document with lots of pictures currently using LO 
> > 5.1.5.2.
> > After doing some editing, the page formatting function kicks in
> > automatically but does a bad job, inserting page breaks randomly and 
> > lots
> > of empty pages in sequence.
>
> I am not sure it finishes, it looks like the process times out, or 
> worse, crashes.
>
> You could try to use a master document (.odm) with smaller 
> sub-documents. It does not solve the problem, formatting is still 
> stopping, but reformatting every sub-document/satellite can be forced 
> after opening the odm, before exporting to pdf and or printing. On the 
> other hand, if your document just opens correctly, you are probably 
> creating extra work with this procedure.
>
> From http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/msg46555.html
>
> =======
> * Open document
> * Update index
> * Update selection for every satellite (using navigator)
> * Update index again
> * Export to PDF for printing and distribution
> =======
>
> > I have got the impression that it is the pictures LO has
> > problem with since most of these extra page breaks are made where 
> > there are
> > pictures nearby.
>
> I agree. And calculating columns goes wrong too in certain large 
> documents.
>
> > I have tried anchored them to the paragraph or as a
> > character without any effect that I can see. Closing and reopen the
> > document clears the problem as the initial page formatting works fine.
>
> I did some testing with the large LO-manuals from 
> https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/documentation/. They don't suffer 
> from this problem, despite the large amount of pictures. This is 
> described further in the link to the thread above. These pictures are 
> in a frame, with the frame anchored as (not to) character, always 
> followed by an enter.
>
> Unfortunately this causes a lot of white space left and or right from 
> the frame when small pictures or listings are involved.
Greetings,
I have a document that has many tables of only two columns of about 1 
inch wide.  I set up a Section for each table and formatted the section 
as three page columns to spread the table data over the page and not 
waste paper.  As I add rows to the tables, the tables should expand 
serpentine fashion across the page and when the page fills, it should 
continue on the next page.  What I was occasionally experiencing was 
something similar to what you are seeing.  The tables would prematurely 
advance to the next page before filling the current page, or continue on 
the next page in other than the first section column, and blank pages 
would appear which could not be edited (the cursor could not be put in 
them), but were printed (negating the purpose of saving trees).  This 
anomaly continued to my latest LO 5.0.6.3.  The last time I experienced 
this problem, I found the Tools -> Update -> Page Formatting option and 
having nothing to lose, tried it.  I was pleasantly surprised that the 
pages were reformatted correctly with no blank pages and the table flow 
problems were corrected.

HTH.
Girvin Herr



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