Bug 165597 - Inserting a footnote above a None wrapped textbox moves content to the next page
Summary: Inserting a footnote above a None wrapped textbox moves content to the next page
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
Inherited From OOo
Hardware: All All
: medium normal
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Blocks: Footnote-Endnote
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Reported: 2025-03-05 20:27 UTC by Gabor Kelemen (allotropia)
Modified: 2025-04-12 05:58 UTC (History)
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Example file from Writer (44.82 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text)
2025-03-05 20:27 UTC, Gabor Kelemen (allotropia)
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The document before inserting a footnote (127.81 KB, image/png)
2025-03-05 20:27 UTC, Gabor Kelemen (allotropia)
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The document after inserting a footnote (132.59 KB, image/png)
2025-03-05 20:32 UTC, Gabor Kelemen (allotropia)
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docx version of the example document (7.83 KB, application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document)
2025-03-05 20:35 UTC, Gabor Kelemen (allotropia)
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How Word handles the situation of adding a footnote here (73.72 KB, image/png)
2025-03-05 20:37 UTC, Gabor Kelemen (allotropia)
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Description Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) 2025-03-05 20:27:16 UTC
Created attachment 199634 [details]
Example file from Writer

Attached document has a textbox positioned at the bottom of the first page and set to None wrap.
When a footnote is inserted at the first page, the content below it is broken to the next page, because the textbox has None wrap and it would be in conflict with the new footnote.

1. Open attached document
2. insert a footnote into the first few paragraphs
-> the paragraph with the footnote is now broken to a new page, creating a lot of empty space.

Version: 25.8.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 36a6bf8bd65e2ece92a4354e9f6d8e47e0f03d84
CPU threads: 14; OS: Windows 10 X86_64 (build 19045); UI render: default; VCL: win
Locale: hu-HU (hu_HU); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded

and back to 3.3

In comparison, when the document is saved as docx and opened in Word, the footnote goes into the background of the textbox and is not considered as content affecting the None wrapping of the box.
Comment 1 Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) 2025-03-05 20:27:38 UTC
Created attachment 199635 [details]
The document before inserting a footnote
Comment 2 Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) 2025-03-05 20:32:05 UTC
Created attachment 199636 [details]
The document after inserting a footnote
Comment 3 Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) 2025-03-05 20:35:41 UTC
Created attachment 199637 [details]
docx version of the example document
Comment 4 Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) 2025-03-05 20:37:14 UTC
Created attachment 199638 [details]
How Word handles the situation of adding a footnote here
Comment 5 Brandon H. 2025-04-10 23:26:08 UTC
Thank you for reporting the bug, I can reproduce the bug in

Version: 25.2.2.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 7370d4be9e3cf6031a51beef54ff3bda878e3fac
CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 11 X86_64 (10.0 build 22631); UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded

Version: 25.8.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: fa357e4a0a44471637373302c4391e6b0c2f1a20
CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 11 X86_64 (build 22631); UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 6 meagan.eggert 2025-04-12 05:58:45 UTC
Version 25.2.1.2
Build ID: d3abf4aee5fd705e4a92bba33a32f40bc4e56f49
CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 11 x86_64
UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: en-US; UI: en-US
Calc: threaded

Bug confirmed.