Bug 160891 - Feature request: better pageless mode
Summary: Feature request: better pageless mode
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 37817
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
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24.2.2.2 release
Hardware: All All
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Reported: 2024-05-01 16:16 UTC by espinosa_cz
Modified: 2024-05-22 03:10 UTC (History)
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Description espinosa_cz 2024-05-01 16:16:54 UTC
Description:
Current web view serves as de-facto pageless view mode. It's nearly there but couple of things could be improved. 

Suggested improvements:
- Add an aptly named new view mode: Pageless
  Or alternatively add it as a new page style to page styles.
- Enable setting pageless format as default mode/style in Writer for all new documents
- Make the page infinite in vertical dimensions only, but with horizontal restrictions like in printer view.
- Current web view wraps text at the screen edge, text width is defined by canvas size, and by extend current windows size. That is not ideal. 
- Limit vertical text width. Make that limit settable using vertical ruler. 
- Center text inside the writing canvas.
- Fix Bug 160890 

Please, get the inspiration from Googdle Docs.

Actual Results:
Current web view is pretty close to be the pageless view mode. It's nearly there but couple of things could be improved.

Expected Results:
To have a proper pageless view mode, similar to what recently Google Docs introduced.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:
This is a new feature request. Sorry if this is not the right place to do so.
Comment 1 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2024-05-22 03:10:18 UTC
(In reply to espinosa_cz from comment #0)
> This is a new feature request. Sorry if this is not the right place to do so.
Thanks for the suggestion! This is the right place to file those :)

This was already requested in bug 160111, which lead to opening bug 160185, which was closed as duplicate of bug 37817.
Let's close as duplicate of bug 37817, as I also think it covers what you are after. Let us know if you disagree, or feel free to comment on bug 37817 if you think the discussion is missing something (for example, it doesn' yet mention "Google Docs' Pageless mode").

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 37817 ***