Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 96963
Page Break visual aid checkbox set, but page break formatting aids not visible
Last modified: 2008-12-06 20:52:25 UTC
Nonprinting Characters is set on, all formatting aids are set to visible, but yet when I insert a page break, the page break notice is invisible. My version build is 9358
Please check: - the colors (if "white"?) under "Tools - Options - OpenOffice.org - Appearance" - "View - Text Boundaries" - delete your user directory? - set another zoom level? attach a screenshot of the page break
Created attachment 58562 [details] With White background
Created attachment 58563 [details] With Black background
I deleted my user directory, changed the background colour of the document, and changed the zoom. Still no luck! (The screenshots are attached)
From your screenshots I see that - "View - Text Boundaries" is off! That's it! :)
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Created attachment 58581 [details] With White background and "Text Borders" on
Created attachment 58582 [details] With White background and "Text Borders" on and Options window open
"View - Text Boundaries" on does not solve the problem either; why should it anyway? I attached two new screenshot of the document with "View - Text Boundaries" on this time (and one with the "Options" dialog window open). As you can see, you cannot see the page break. It is still not visible.
On some monitors the line is hard to see. Go to Tools > Options > OOo > Appearance and turn the color from automatic to 'light blue'. For me that is a better color than the dark blue from automatic, which looks nearly the same as the gray boundary.
Thank you so much for your help guys. I was expecting to see something like ....page break.... somewhere along the page, and not a unrecognizable-from-a-glitch colour change on the top of the border of the page, and totally were unaware of how OO shows the "Page break" sign. We should admit that the way it represents the sign is very confusing (at least it was confusing to me). I am wondering what is in our way to add such a notice to the visible line of the "page break" sign, so we can actually distinguish it from a mere colour change that could mean nothing to untrained eyes like mine. Is there any coding problem? Or is there any conflict with the outlines of the ISO standard for the ODT documents?