[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 117231] There is no way to suppress Writer inserting blank pages to make page No. 1 a right-hand page (Formatting)

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=117231

--- Comment #9 from A.Holtsmark <holtsmark@gmx.net> ---
"What is the effect of Tools > Options > Writer > Printing ... "Print
automatically inserted blank pages" for your case?"

-This setting is of little relevance.
It does not affect the way the document reacts to viewing settings, and it
changes nothing to the pdf export. I could not try printing right now, but I
assume that the setting will work as published there.

My problem is one of editing, not printing.
I need to edit the document with left- and right-hand pages displayed properly
next to each other on the screen (for example, left page often contains a
screenshot, while the right-hand page explains the contents of the screenshot).

In all other viewing modes but "book mode", writer swaps left with right (due
displaying the first page on the left hand side), and in "book mode" I get all
the auto-generated blank pages pushed in whenever the numbering starts at 1 for
what should be a left-hand page.

The only way to work around this is to add an empty page in front of page 1,
view it in not "book mode", and delete this page before printing or exporting
to pdf. 
Doing this risks destroying the formatting throughout the document when the
page is removed (although it should not).

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