Description: When adding watermark on document in writer, a new page header is added in the document automatically and the pre-applied image descriptors from all the images in document is removed. It specifically happens with images taken from local directory. Online images are not affected. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open a new document in writer 2. Insert images from local directory 3. Add a watermark such as "Confidential" in document 4. Observe the image descriptors and header Actual Results: Header is added automatically and image descriptors are gone Expected Results: Only Watermark should be added to the document Reproducible: Didn't try User Profile Reset: Yes Additional Info: Testing on: Version- Libre Office 24.2.4.2 release Hardware- 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor OS- Windows 11 Pro Education
The header needs to be added because the watermark is a shape, that is anchored to the header, so that it is repeated on each page. But when enabling the header, if it was not already enabled, the margin is not adapted. Thus the start of the body text area is shifted down and thus makes the body text area less high. That should not happen, because it might change the overall layout of the document. Request: When a watermark is added to a page, that has not already enabled the header, then the margins should be adapted so that the body text area does not change. I have tested it in Version: 25.2.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: aaf2967d74a9a7ba2d28433e1872422ce38b6244 CPU threads: 32; OS: Windows 11 X86_64 (10.0 build 22631); UI render: default; VCL: win Locale: de-DE (de_DE); UI: en-US Calc: default So for this part of your report I can confirm your observation. I cannot confirm, that descriptions of images are gone. A 'Writer'-image has still the same content in its properties as before and a 'Draw'-image has the same alternative text as before. Please write a new report about the problem with "image descriptions" and give an exact description how you insert the image and which text is affected. It might be that I miss something.
The header being added has been reported a few times, see bug 111325 - closed as "not a bug". I agree it would make sense to have the margin adapt to not relayout the contents. No idea what is meant by "image descriptors are gone", please clarify, dev.light.