I have View > Boundaries on, in the menus, but the text boundaries are not visible. I have not played with any configuration settings; and expect that, in this situation, the text boundaries (the gray L-shapes on the four corners of the text area) should be visible. They used to be, e.g. in LO 25.2 . Build info: Version: 25.8.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 2305fe302e12c4256e452589e2533772d4213e59 CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 6.6; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: en-IL (en_IL); UI: en-US
They toggle by RB between "Crop marks" and "Border outline" on the Tools -> Options -> LO Writer -> Formatting Aids But is this with default 'Automatic' Appearance theme, or have you applied a theme extension? And maybe removed it? A munged default automatic theme may be cause. Also, the 2305fe3 build is from Dec 24, 2024 you might want to test a more recent build... Can't reproduce with more recent nightly build of master against 25.8 Version: 25.8.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: fb8bf5f209e1bd7fd7d8ad555ec66dbf31649ee8 CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 10 X86_64 (build 19045); UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US Calc: CL threaded
(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #1) > But is this with default 'Automatic' Appearance theme It is the default automatic icon theme. > They toggle by RB between "Crop marks" and "Border outline" on the Tools -> > Options -> LO Writer -> Formatting Aids The "text" toggle is unchecked. When checking it, I get the crop marks back. But - it can't be unchecked by default, that's not a reasonable setting. > Also, the 2305fe3 build is from Dec 24, 2024 you might want to test a more > recent build... Ah. Ok. Closing.
Have a look at https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/175832 that set the state for the Text Object Boundaries. But think at this point they are checked On but using Crop Marks by default, for 25.2.1 and master against 25.8.0
(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #3) Ok. Thanks, Stuart.