This is.... not a bug. You can't just go and change all of the formatting on a word processor document. Must remember that the target for a document will most likely be printed paper. The entire system is designed to show you the document exactly as it will appear on physical paper.

If you select text and resize the text larger, it will "reflow" within the current view. That is the effect you may be thinking of and is common with e-readers.  Sorry, not very useful for a productivity suite, even just a viewer like this for Android.

(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #2)
> If you select text and resize the text larger, it will "reflow" within the
> current view. That is the effect you may be thinking of and is common with
> e-readers.  Sorry, not very useful for a productivity suite, even just a
> viewer like this for Android.

If I pinch to zoom, the whole page gets bigger and the text maintains it's line length thus it sticks out of the sides. There's no way to just enlarge the text on its own.

Basically if I email something to someone and they use LOV to open the file, reading the text within said document is laborious. Surely they should just be able to scroll downwards and consume the content of the document?

In fact just the other day, I had emailed something to someone, was away from my laptop and they were discussing the document, I went to read it and the document viewer I had on my phone at the time meant I couldn't provide them with what they needed.

A document viewer should entitle the user to view a document. In some cases that's "how it prints" in a lot of cases, that's simply viewing what's written within said document. It's actually ridiculous to say that for all intents and purposes a user isn't supposed to be able to read documents with ease using an app that calls itself a document viewer.

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Zoomed Text (No Wrapping/Reflow)

Seriously how is that useful? Great text size for people with bad eyesight but the amount of left-to-right scrolling required to read that is absurd.

It is rendering the XML of ODF and OOXML documents into correct WYSIWYG representations of the document.

Scrolling with swiping, or zooming with pinch, of that fully rendered document is the only interface intended.

It is not an e-Book reader.

(In reply to Paul from comment #3)
> If I pinch to zoom, the whole page gets bigger and the text maintains it's
> line length thus it sticks out of the sides. There's no way to just enlarge
> the text on its own.
> 
> Basically if I email something to someone and they use LOV to open the file,
> reading the text within said document is laborious.

I can relate to this sentiment. I think it’s worth exploring having a “Reading Mode” option for rendering just the text, without page settings, so that you can zoom in the text and having it reflow to adjust to the screen’s boundaries. It is annoying having to scroll horizontally all the time.

Let’s have this open as an enhancement request.

In LibreOffice Desktop there is something called "Web" view. It is intended for documents that are actually websites. Could we adapt or simply use this view to allow users to have something like this?

I think it's worth it to re-evaluate this or at least consider what it means in practice

(In reply to blendergeek from comment #7)
> In LibreOffice Desktop there is something called "Web" view. It is intended
> for documents that are actually websites. Could we adapt or simply use this
> view to allow users to have something like this?

Sounds like a good idea to me.

@Kendy: Do you know who is working on Android?

I have ages ago "proselytized" that the web view can be converted to a re-flow view in Writer (mostly when people wanted to throw all the web stuff out of LO), which has very useful for e-documents (e-books) where you can re-flow the text to adapt to the current viewing device. I think this would be great for mobile devices.