Bug 115546 - Mirrored Page Headers do not respect "Same Content on Both Sides" setting wrt spacing
Summary: Mirrored Page Headers do not respect "Same Content on Both Sides" setting wrt...
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
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6.0.0.3 release
Hardware: All All
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Blocks: Writer-Header-Footer
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Reported: 2018-02-08 13:39 UTC by Paul
Modified: 2025-01-11 18:47 UTC (History)
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Description Paul 2018-02-08 13:39:58 UTC
I'm trying to format a book, and have run into a problem. I have the page style for the body of the book set up as Mirrored. For the Headers, I unchecked "Same content of both sides". The header information, titles and page numbers, accordingly went to the outer edges as they were told, so it seemed everything was fine. But then I wanted more spacing between the header and the first line of text, and can't get it to work.

On the left pages, I get the specified spacing. But the right page automatically picks up the setting I make for the left page, which it shouldn't do, yet still remains as it was, making the two pages unequal.

I thought it might be related to a Inserted page break, but it happens even on automatically generated pages.

So the mirrored page picks up a setting, but only considers it a phantom.

If I then toggle the "Same Content As" setting, with Apply, the problem is corrected.

See https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/145712/page-header-spacing-problem/?answer=145718#post-id-145718 for discussion and pics.

I'm on .deb Linux x64.
Comment 1 ajlittoz 2018-02-08 14:23:15 UTC
I helped to discover the bug.

It is also present in 5.3.7.2. I'm on Fedora 26, x86_64.
Comment 2 Evil Overlord 2018-03-04 14:15:45 UTC
I had the same problem as Paul, except that the right page had the correct settings, and the left page did not change. Toggling same content fixed the problem.
Comment 3 QA Administrators 2019-03-05 03:39:04 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 4 QA Administrators 2021-03-05 04:18:36 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 5 QA Administrators 2023-03-06 04:23:09 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 6 Sebi 2023-06-09 10:20:01 UTC
This bug is still present in 7.5.2.2
Comment 7 BogdanB 2025-01-11 18:47:32 UTC
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