Bug 126856 - VIEWING: Normal page view malfunctions when I open a new or existing document
Summary: VIEWING: Normal page view malfunctions when I open a new or existing document
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
6.0.7.3 release
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) Linux (All)
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Reported: 2019-08-12 15:55 UTC by hlasher1
Modified: 2019-08-18 18:44 UTC (History)
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screenshot of borked normal page view (73.60 KB, image/png)
2019-08-12 15:55 UTC, hlasher1
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Description hlasher1 2019-08-12 15:55:42 UTC
Created attachment 153323 [details]
screenshot of borked normal page view

Last week, Normal page view started pushing the page off to the right side (see attached screenshot from this morning).  I have been having to view all Writer documents in Web view in order to see all of the text at one time.  

On Friday (8/9/2019), I worked my way through all the "restart in safe mode" options.  When that did not work, I uninstalled and reinstalled the LibreOffice suite.  That seemed to resolve the problem, so I re-established my custom settings, as follows:

1. set default font for all levels as LibreOffice Sans 12 pt
2. specified large menu icons (Tools/Options/LibreOffice View/Toolbar icon size: Large)
3. installed libreoffice-gtk3 package through the Synaptic Package Manager in order to be able to control menu font size, and adjusted size to 12 pt
3. unchecked AutoCorrect while typing (Tools/Autocorrect Options)

Re-establishing these custom settings didn't seem to mess anything up, and I used Writer for the rest of the day without any issues.  

However, this morning when I opened a Writer document, Normal page view was borked as before.  Once again, resetting it to factory settings (with both of the options checked), didn't resolve the problem, but this time neither did uninstalling and reinstalling the LibreOffice suite.  Weirdly, though, once it was reinstalled, specifying large icons again DID restore the Normal page view to its usual appearance.  

If I missed any useful checks, please let me know, and I will be happy to run them for you.  Otherwise this seems like a bug.  In case it might be useful to know which specific version of Linux I am running, it is Linux Mint 19.1.
Comment 1 Jean-Baptiste Faure 2019-08-18 18:44:06 UTC
Not a bug: you have the "Book view". In the status bar, next left the zoom slider you have 3 icons "Single-page view", Multiple-page view" and "Book view". Click on the "Single-page view" button to get the view you want.

Closing as NotABug. Feel free to reopen if you disagree.

Best regards. JBF