Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 1761
Zoom should align to center, not left
Last modified: 2013-08-07 14:42:39 UTC
The WYSIWYG page view should be centered, not left-aligned. This apparently can't be changed from the Options menu..? To demonstrate, try 50% zoom on 1600 x 1200 resolution.
Reassigned to Falko.
Yes. I complete agree!
Just a small update: this is not limited to Win2000, changed the OS and Platform to All.
How is the status of this issue? PS: please make this optional...
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The WYSIWYG page view should be centered, not left-aligned.
Please give approval for this evaluated OO.o 2.0 flagged issue. If you confirm with the target OO.o 2.0, then please keep it on your owner (or the owner of the concerning developer) for implementation. In case you want this issue for 'OOo Later', then please reset the target milestone. If you decline the issue finally, please set the resolution to 'Wontfix' (but do not close). In case of 'OOo Later' or 'Wontfix' please reset it on Bettina's owner. Thank you.
See issue 20203
Duplicate?
Agree, duplicate. But this problem is not only about centering, also about arrangement of pages at low zoom - pages should not be presented as one "stripe" from top to bottom of the screen, but "tiled" instead to efficiently use all screen space.
Created attachment 12627 [details] Current OOo Writer display at 20% zoom
Created attachment 12628 [details] Proposed writer display at 20% zoom. Editing 3rd page.
Extending this idea further one might think of capability to set zoom levels separately for each page (or group of pages) and dividing window into sections - for example to have one page with table of contents at very small zoom, but always visible; or setting bigger zoom for text only pages, and lower zoom level for pages with digrams etc.
This issue will address the centering of the pages, if the zoom is low enough. Thus, undo the summary text change done by gawron. OD->gawron: Thanks for your contribution and your idea for tiled pages in low zoom. But, please setup a new issue for your idea. For OOo 2.0 it is only planned to address the centering of pages.
OK. See issue <A HREF=http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=24772> 24772 </A>
OD->HB: As discussed with AMA, You take over this issue.
At first we need a specification.
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Because of a shortage of resources we have to retarget this issue to OOo later.
reassigning & adding keywords according to new RFE process - sophie
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What is the status of this issue? There are many duplicates - it seems to me that the problem is more important to users than it might seem at the first glance (still - 13 votes is also significant). Is it still being targeted at OOo later (means -> "god knows when")? OOo 2.0 will be compared with MSOffice - and lack of multipage zoom (available in MSOffice since - I think - version 2) or at least centering (available always :-) is, well...
Yes I'm also currious what is happenening with this issue. I would be so happy, if it got made.
This issue is still present in 1.9.77.
The general alignment of pages in OO.o should be 'centred' rather than left. If any of the docked toolbars is placed to the left of the screen and the context switches on the toolbar [bullet, numbering, picture, etc.] all of a sudden the page jumps the right, which is unpleasant.
This is the first thing I noticed upon install. Very annoying to have a zoomed-out document forced to the left side of my screen. At least make it optional, so that those who like it can keep it, no?
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I would like this to be fixed, or at least made into an option.
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Created attachment 31138 [details] Screen shot showing problems at full screen and non full screen
As widescreen displays become more popular, e.g. all macs, and an estimated 80% of all laptops by 2009, this issue will become more and more important. I created an attachment using my dual head display to show the problem on widescreen monitors. The lack of ability to center results in a very jarring display. On the left is in fullscreen mode, and on the right maximized.
Come on, it's being continuously requested already 5 years.. is it impossible?
I just used 2 of my 5 votes on this issue. It is very important to me (and other people) to be able to view an entire page in a centered fashion. As a teacher, I would use this feature for newsletter layouts, assignments, etc. For me, it is very disconcerting to have the page on the left side instead of the center (I'm one of those people who have to have symmetry). Maybe this can be addressed in 2.0.3?
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Well, I've signed up for an account just to comment on this issue, which seems to be ignored despite repeated comments and new users starting new topics to let you know this is a problem. It looks bad, especially on wide screens zoomed out--the way most people work nowadays. The fact that this obvious usability issue is so persistently ignored speaks poorly of OO, and indicative of an organization that has trouble addressing basic usability issues. This issue is symbolic of why I don't use Openoffice.
Me too. I would have used all my votes, since this is the only issue I care about, but I could only use two. Since I've lost my Microsoft Word cd, I've had no choice but to use OpenOffice. I've had to adjust the size of the application window and center it on screen to adjust for this problem. But I can't change the zoom or I have to resize and reposition the window again. Here's hoping the next version finally includes it.
Now fix it !!
I was looking for this particular matter on the neooffice.org forums. Good to hear im not alone. We need this! its anoying having thah on the left with all that space on a widescreen.
Opened: Tue Oct 2 15:34:00 -0700 2001 The bug report for this is nearing its 5th birthday. There is no way this thing can be THAT hard to fix (if I had any idea about coding I would do it myself and then recompile OOo). Someone tell me why something as essential for ease of your eyes have been buried for FIVE years :/. Let's get some more votes for this! :-)
The 5 year wait for this issue and several other small bugs or annoyances, and especially the feautures that OOo lacks but Microsoft Office had since 1997 makes me loose faith in OOo. Waiting for years and years and years for small features is not worth it. Soon I will gladly pay for MSO; I don't even know if I will ever see any of those features even if I pay for StarOffice.
To celebrate the FIFTH anniversary of this bug I wrote a little piece here (also about some other favorite bugs of mine) – http://gawrysiak.org/corvus/?p=6 Enjoy… /sarcasm/ and maybe post it to Slashdot, Digg it or whatever, perhaps OO.o developers read these more often than bug descriptions /sarcasm/.
Well nothing new concerning this issue in OOo 2.0.4. Big disappointment. Could someone from development explain why? Is that issue meant to remain forever? So many people requesting to fix that. So long. Nobody cares?
This issue already have some duplicate, oooqa, rfe_eval_ok, usability and already 5 years old. I hope it will assigned to somebody. and consider a target, maybe OOo 2.2? Thanks
May I suggest that somebody sends pollite message to the lead of Wordprocessor project (http://projects.openoffice.org/accepted.html), asking to clarify the status of this issue?
Well I addressed kpalagin´s request and sent the following email to Mr. Martens: > Dear Mr. Martens, > > I would like to ask you about the issue 1761 (Zoom should align to center, not > left). > > There are many users, that consider this issue to be greatly annoying. Further > I rather don´t recommend OOo to my friends, in order not to discourage them at > all, before this issue is solved. Because I believe, it´s simply the greatest > and terrible hassle in OOo Writer. There are many concrete reasons and > complaints in concerning query. > I decided to write you an email, because this issue is reported for more than > 5 (!) years, without any progress. With each and every new release of OOo many > of us waiting for a good news, having this problem solved. But still nothing. > Therefore I would like to kindly ask you for change in this situation and let > us know about the status of this issue. > Thank you for all brilliant work, > sincerely, > Zbynek Petrik (lore1) > Prague, Czech Republic
I've been asked to clarify what happens with this bug. Here is my reply (I hope, all interested people are on the CC list): I noticed the high number of votes and of duplicates to this issue and I'm cc'ed on this issue, so I've read your comments as well. Our plan was to have a centered view for OOo2.0. During the implementation we realized that the effort would be quiet high. So we decided to spent our resources to more important issues. Our first goal was only to center the pages on screen, not to have more than one page parallel like the idea supposed by gawron. This would be an effort of more than 2 weeks of implementation. The problem is that we could have different page widths in a document, so it's not only a shift of the whole doocument, we have to do some more work. To implement a "cool" view with more than one page parallel we would need even more weeks. Unfortunately it looks like the implementation of a centered view does not help to get the "cool" view :-( Currently nobody is working on this task. Of course we would like to solve every problem but unfortunately our resources are limited. There are a lot of other requests/bugs we have to take care of. For OOo3.0 our idea is to support a more sophisticated view with parallel pages. ->aparan: You mentioned the problem of docking toolbars (at the left) which causes the content to jump. I don't see an improvement by implementing a centered view. Ok, the jump will be a little bit smaller (halfway of left adjusted view), but OTOH toolbars docked at the right border will causes jumps for centered view as well. For a left adjusted document toolbars at the right border don't cause trouble. So the problem of jumping content becomes worse with a centered view, doesn't it? ->gnuyen: Does it really helps, if documents are centered on widescreen monitors? From my point of view we need the parallel page view as gawron described. To have (big) grey areas on both sides of the document instead of a very big one on the right side doesn't makes me happy for widescreen monitors.
Thank you very much for letting us know. I believe, each task needs certain time, but on the other hand, this (1761) is quite big trouble, especially for users with widescreen high-resolution monitor. > Our first goal was only to center the pages on screen, not to have more than one page parallel like the idea supposed by gawron. That "primary" goal would be very satisfactory..!! Maybe OOo team could introduce "specific-donation-system" - PayPal donations for particular issues. I think you would become rich on this issue;-)
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I add my votes to this issue. Makes 81 now.
This is currently keeping me from using OOo. It may "only" be a matter of aesthetics, but this is precisely the point. It is the small details that get to be annoying when workin at the screen for several hours. So yes. Two large grey areas en each side of the page would be a lot better than one on the right.
Please add an option to align the page center. Currently, to center the page, you can zoom page width, but you can't see down the page because it's so big. You can fix that by making the window skinnier, but now you can't see all your buttons at the top. There is no replacement for aligning the page center. Please add it as an option.
Left alignment is reason #1 I'm not using OOWriter as my default editor but only use it when I have to.
It's really a pain to work hours looking on the left.
I would simply like to agree with those who have said this is quite possibly the most annoying bug in OO.o. When running a display at 1920x1200, it simply feels wrong to have to look that far to the left side of the screen. I think many of us would gladly paypal some money in to get this fixed. It's a shame to use MS Word (or something else) just to avoid this issue, but a lot of us do.
I would like to have things centered too, but on the other hand, now the canvas is close to the ruler, both horizontally and vertically.
I wonder if we could implement the feature in two steps. The most problematic part is that every page might have a different width so that the additional shift we had to apply to the displayed text may change with every page. This can be solved only by a complete rewrite of the text and object positioning. By only taking the first page and calculating an additional left offset to every screen display (currently we have a fixed one) we could make the change quite easy. This will help to solve the problem completely for most users and even for users using more than one page style per document it would surely make it much better. Opinions, anyone? The "real" fix (using object and text positioning relativ to the page borders) could be done later, the single approach as outlined above could be done in a 2.3 time frame.
grrrr... Error in last sentence: s/single/simple
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Since it is impossible to unsubscribe this issue - I have changed my mail to a fake one !! Fraged up system where you can't unsubscribe !! No centering in Oo = dead system Gonna install M$ office now bye
Reassigned to implement the first step - centering documents.
Oliver, the next release for enhancements is 2.3
mba, I believe most of the people here consider this a bug fix, not an enhancement. Please reconsider as a *bug fix* for 2.2.1 e.g. for the first release possible! God knows OOo writer is utterly useless for me until this is fixed as there is no way in hell I will put that kind of strain on my neck (having to look slightly to the left all the time is just not good for your pose while sitting in front of a computer).
This is not my decision, it's up to the release committee to decide this. We have the rule to add only small bug fixes and urgent fixes to 2.2.1. So at least currently we aim for 2.3 and that's the reason why I changed the target. If the code changes made by Oliver turn out to be simple and safe(!) I will ask the release committee to accept the fix for 2.2.1. The idea behind our new release model is that the amount of work (and especially the QA work) to be done on the micro release will be very small. Especially nothing should be integrated that has a significant regression risk. Without seeing the code changes for this issue it's impossible to judge the regression risk so we have to wait and decide later on.
BTW: You don't need to stress your neck. As long as Writer can't display more than one page(*) on a wide screen monitor I don't see a reason to use maximized Writer windows. Until we deliver the fix you can center your complete window and Writer will remember this position. Please don't misunderstand me: I don't recommend this as a replacement for the missing enhancement, but as a workaround for it that should allow you to "survive" until the fix will be available. (*) See issue 1598.
And what is the timeframe (ie. estimated release dates) for 2.2.1 and 2.3 respectively?
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OOoRelease221 http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OOoRelease23
mba, ok - I fully understand there will be other things to take into account. I'm just happy that it seems like there is finally something being done about this issue and well, I would just like to see it done as soon as possible :-). I would like to say thanks to both you and "os" for taking an interest in the matter. Hopefully it will be resolved soon :-)
mba, of note, I do know I can just make the window smaller and center it manually, however sometimes I want to use a fullscreen window, which makes this solution an annoyance, as I then have to do window management everytime I want to zoom out / zoom in on a document besides just zooming. I've tried this, unfortunately it was still a showstopper as to how I work with documents and I had to go back to MS word, which annoyed me as well heh. Anyway, worthwhile suggestion for people that might not be as annoyed about this. I do however think most people work with writer / word as I do: with a fully maximized window :-).
@os / mba: So just to confirm - you are planning to address this issue in 2.3 (or 2.2.1 if it turns out to be a minor change and one can convince the QA guys)? I was bothered enough to spend some time over the last days to setup a build environment for the sources from [1] and got the first build (of the unchanged sources) running yesterday. So I was going to give this issue a try, but of course it would be much better if an experienced OO developer is going for implementing this patch. [1] http://download.openoffice.org/2.1.0/source.html
@xca1019: yes, this will be fixed in 2.3 - in the way that I described. We don't center each and every page but the whole document. So if you have a landscape and a portrait page in the same document the landscape page will be centered, the portrait page will be positioned *slightly* moved to the left. This way we fix the problem perfectly for 90+x% of the users (I doubt that x is smaller than 5) and make it (IMHO) acceptable for the rest (those who have more than one page width per document). And we get this with only a few days effort! The complete fix (centering each and every page exactly) would take several weeks development time, mostly because we assume that we get a lot of side effects we have to fix. We don't see this worth the effort. Now we more time to work on some other highly demanded RFEs. :-) So we would like to get the complete fix for free when we will have fixed issue 1598.
"So if you have a landscape and a portrait page in the same document the landscape page will be centered, the portrait page will be positioned *slightly* moved to the left." Why would it be shifted? If the whole document is centered, presumably on the widest (landscape) page(s), and the portrait pages are centered relative to the landscape page(s), then shouldn't the portrait pages also be centered relatively to the view area? Professionals that write (longish) reports will frequently have mostly portrait pages, but also a few landscape pages (e.g., data tables). Therefore, I hope your "slightly" means "barely noticeable", because looking at *mostly* noticeably left-shifted portrait pages is highly annoying. OT: Having used mozilla's bugzilla, reveals that this IssueZilla has some annoying deficiencies: (1) the forced left menu makes the usable horizontal "bug"-space too narrow, (2) can't link to comments, (3) comments aren't numbered for reference, (4) can't reply to (quote) a comment, (5) the date format is hard to read (the time is between month and year - WTF), (6) bug's title is not in window header or bookmark, (7) no proper names for commentors, (8) e-mail is munged to name@openoffice.org.
Slightly means: it depends on the width of your screen. In the worst case it is the same as now, the "portrait" page is left aligned with the "landscape" one, the latter being centered. If you screen is big enough to leave space on the left side of the landscape page the portrait page does look a bit better than now. So there are cases where the situation isn't much better than now. We think that this is a problem only for a few percent of the users and doesn't judge to invest a lot of work we could better use for RFEs where a much larger percentage of users will benefit. So we will leave the fix for this remainder for a later version where we implement the ability of having more than one page per window and get the centering for free as in this version we must be able to put any page anywhere on the screen. But this is a much bigger effort.
Most people have a resolution of 1024x768, and only 26% have a resolution higher than that(1)! I'm guessing the most common monitor size is 17" (with very few larger than that). In Microsoft Word a very comfortable (and likely the most used) zoom-factor for portrait documents is 100%, which (at 1024x768 and 17") leaves only *very little* extra space on the left and right. If a landscape page exists, in OOo, this would almost always cause the portrait pages to be very noticeably non-centered (likely even along the left edge). Therefore, I think the most common case will *not* be what you claim will affect "a few percent of the users", but will be quite the opposite: it will affect the vast majority of users. It is indeed what you call the "worst case". Microsoft Word's handling is very effective: The portrait pages remain centered(!!!) and the landscape pages, if there is not enough space to be centered, are left-aligned and extend to the right as far as needed (farther than to the left). The advantages of this method are: 1. (the most common) portrait pages are centered. 2. The landscape pages are not cut off on the left (where the most relevant portion usually is) Bonus points: If the user selects zoom-level="page width", then OOo should rescale the page *as* the user scrolls from a portrait to a landscape page (and vice-versa). Microsoft Word doesn't do this (yet). ;-) (1) http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp
Created attachment 42956 [details] Screenshot of portrait and lanscape handling in MS Word
@peter: > If the whole document is centered, presumably on the widest (landscape) > page(s),and the portrait pages are centered relative to the landscape page(s), > then shouldn't the portrait pages also be centered relatively to the view area? The problem is that we can't handle different left page borders without rewriting large parts of the layout code view code. In our current code all pages must start at the same x position of the screen. The current fix for this issue where we just add a constant additional left border to all pages (calculated from centering the widest page of the document) is very easy and helps in all cases where you don't have alternating page widths. My assumption is that this is true for the vast majority of documents. > Most people have a resolution of 1024x768, and only 26% have a resolution > higher than that(1)! I'm guessing the most common monitor size is 17" (with > very few larger than that). Fine, so if these numbers are correct (where did you get them from?) only 26% of the users have any real problem with the current behavior at all. On my 1024x768 notebook screen and 100% zoom factor the difference between a centered and a non-centered page in format "portrait" is ca. 2 cm on the screen. For larger zoom factors there's no difference between centered and non-centered view at all. That's definitely not a big issue. > Microsoft Word's handling is very effective: The portrait pages remain > centered(!!!) and the landscape pages, if there is not enough space to be > centered, are left-aligned and extend to the right as far as needed (farther > than to the left) Word seems to behave differently here, depending on the zoom factor. On my 1280x1024 monitor and 100% both pages (portrait and landscape) are centered while at 150% only the portrait page is centered and the landscape page is left aligned to the portrait one. I assume that on your monitor you will get both pages centered if you use a zoom factor smaller than 100%. We can't do the same as we currently lack the ability to place pages on arbitrary places on the screen (something that due to the effort is planned for a later version covered by issue 1598). But you are right, there could arise a new problem for users with smaller screens. Thanks for pointing that out before we had to fix that later on. So perhaps we could center the document not in all cases (only in case the empty space exceeds a certain value and the document has alternating page widths) or we should allow to switch centering off manually (I prefer the first option). That means in the example in your screen shot where a portrait and a landscape page are shown above each other we wouldn't change anything to the current behavior (the portrait page will stay a little bit off-center) but in case the user has a 1280 or 1600 pixels width the document will be centered as planned.
I think that as long as the portrait view is centered, that will please the most amount of people at once. At the same time, still work on the cases where people are mixing protrait with landscape, but I don't think that it has to be perfect all at once.
I would -really- like this in OpenOffice, I don't think the development guys understand just how badly this has reflected upon OpenOffice look When you open writer for the first time the first thing that strikes you is how odd it looks, and then you realise you are staring at one hell of massive, super visible bug that stands out like a elephant with diarrhoea in a china shop... in norway It has been enough to make Word users go white in the face, well I exaggerate, but they have such an odd look on their face, like they've smelt something rotten, and it's coming from my computer... :( Please please fix sooner rather than later this so my freinds who have become addicted to the 'Ribbon' of Office 2007 (which by the way OOo needs to develop a competing GUI revolution to answer to that piece of heresy) stop sniggering and pointing behind my back... it really is that shameful note: perhaps make it optional though, I can imagine that some people would like it like that...
PS: when you talk about this issue affecting only "26%" of users, it at least has a significantly noticable effect on the look and feel of OOo on my laptop, which doesn't have an uncommon screen resolution for laptops these days. I'm telling this to you after I realised just how much of a relief it was to return to MS word for a bit.
Like other users, I've fired up Word today at work and wow, what a relief -- a centered page! I can't begin to tell you how annoying it is to not have this feature. This is a deal-breaker for me. I'm through with OO.org until this is fixed.
Please read at the least the last comments before you add comments that don't add anything to the work to be done. You should be able to read that we are already working on it. So keep your energy for other issues. :-)
"Fine, so if these numbers are correct (where did you get them from?) only 26% of the users have any real problem with the current behavior at all." Only 26 % of your users affected ... that doesn't worry you guys. Its obvious that you don't have paying costumers. Don't expect screen resolutions to go down, and don't expect your attitude to do you any good.
First: we *have* also paying customers that use StarOffice. BTW: interestingly none of them ever asked us for a centered view. They usually are more interested in other things. Despite of this we already have implemented a centered view for OOo2.3 (QA approval provided). You really should have read all comments here before expressing such unbalanced view. The 26% came from a user, not from a developer. I just took it as a sign that the number of users that will not be satisfied by our not perfect solution we have developed now for OOo2.3 will be even less than the ~5% I expected as a rough guess. Try to read and understand what was written here. In OOo 2.3 we will always have a centered view for all cases where documents don't have alternating landscape and portrait formats. This will be the vast majority of documents written by our users. And from the small number of documents that have both portrait and landscape pages where only the latter will be centered only a fourth of the user base will be able to feel the problem if the 26% are correct as on small monitors the non-centered view is even less important. If you consider that also not everybody sees the absence of a centered view as a problem at all (like me or obviously our paying StarOffice customers) it's a good estimation that only a few percent of all users will not be satisfied by what we will have in OOo 2.3. I don't understand why so many people don't read the whole comments written here (especially those of the developers) but instead pick a single remark of their choice without even understanding the context it was put into and then write just what comes into their mind. This is not very helpful and mainly nonsense as in case of the last comment. Folks, please read and understand what was written so far if you want to be taken seriously.
Fixed in cws os92 in sw/source/ui/uiview/viewport.cxx sw/source/core/view/viewsh.cxx
Yay fixed can't wait till 2.3 then :D Sorry if my comments annoyed you mba, just the perfectionist in me has found this annoying for quite some time. And I've found this to be a barrier to getting people on the OO bandwagon. With this fixed people will have to look closer to find something 'wrong' with the look 'n' feel.
> With this fixed people will have to look closer > to find something 'wrong' with the look 'n' feel. I'm sure they'll find something ;-) Good thing I bought a 20" screen just in time to see this new feature in action once it's released!
Please use dev@sw.openoffice.org for any discussion. Issuezilla should be reserved for the technical part of this issue.
Reassigned for verification
Reopening issue, a problem when switching the zoom factor remains to be fixed.
MRU->OS: when changing the zoom e.g. from 50% to 200% the view will be shown wrong. When then grabbing the horizontal scroll bar, the view will jump into the correct position.
Fixed in viewport.cxx
Is there a snapshot planned to test the new behaviour?
Verified fix in CWS os92.
I see some people have worked on this. Many thanks! One question though: If it's already a verified fix, might it be possible to include it in the 2.2 release? I just looked at the main page, and they're still on the 2.1 release, so 2.3 is presumably a long time away. Alternately, are there somewhere "beta" versions can be downloaded ahead of time, or a way to patch the fix on a 2.1 install? I'd like to try using OO again soon, but I will wait 'til 2.3 if necessary...
No, this is impossible. 2.2 is already overdue.
I've downloaded the new dev snapshot at http://download.openoffice.org/680/index.html and the issue is still there, where can i download a linux build with this fix... We are really impatient to see how this problem was finally fixed...
The Child Workspace os92 containing the changes is still not integrated. Once it is done the QA engineer will add a comment to this issue that it is "verified in master". This will show you the milestone build where you can take a look.
for the record (and instead of a specification): If the horizontal scrollbar has nothing to do then the page will be centered in the window. Otherwise we keep the behavior from previous OOo versions (ZoomIn bahaviour will not be changed.) See Oliver, what I mean -- specifications can really be short, clarify the issue and drive issues home. Matthias /user experience team
Version 2 of the spec text: If the horizontal scrollbar has nothing to do then the pages will be centered in the window. Otherwise we keep the behavior from previous OOo versions (ZoomIn bahaviour will not be changed.) The center of the pages is defined by the half width of the widest page of the document (pages can also be in landscape orientation, right?). Then all pages are aligned to the left border of the widest page.
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mmp wrote: "Then all pages are aligned to the left border of the widest page." If I remember correctly, MS Word centers all pages. So a "Portrait" pages are centered to the middle of a "Landscape" pages. Why not adopt this?
This has been answered here several times. Please read.
Checked in SRC680m209 for OOo 2.3.
you said : "Then all pages are aligned to the left border of the widest page." Why all pages aren't simply centered in the viewport instead? Can you explain (and argue) your choice Thanks Ok, i read comments and found this one : "If you consider that also not everybody sees the absence of a centered view as a problem at all (like me or obviously our paying StarOffice customers) it's a good estimation that only a few percent of all users will not be satisfied by what we will have in OOo 2.3. " So, i undertand that in fact you dont care having a weird (if not ugly) behavior for those who will have mixed portraits/landscape mixed documents. Do you always do things like that? I mean, implement half of the functionnality, considering that there will be few people that will complain about lacks? Every functionnality in this software are thought like this? Well done guys! Great! Good Job! Award for this! => Think about it twice please.
Created attachment 44604 [details] New OpenOffice "Centering" Functionnality...
True... looks abysmal. What about reopening this bug then (or should someone create new bug issue for this)?
it would be better to reopen this bug, because the functionnality as been "half implemented"
->hubertf: Please read again the comment from mba from Fri Feb 2 17:50:07 +0000 2007
Ok i understand mba's point of vue... but I think this bug must remain open until this functionnality is fully implemented.
->hubertf: No, there's no use in reopening this issue. It would then be closed as wontfix. The next step is the already mentioned issue 1598
I hope you don't misunderstand Oliver's comment: "WONTFIX" doesn't mean that we don't want to implement the feature. It just means that we don't want to fix it as a separate issue. This would take us several weeks extra development time. As Oliver said: the "completely centered view" implementation will be a nice "side effect" of implementing issue 1598. The problem we have to solve for both is the same: all objects in the text document are painted relative to the window boundaries but we must position them relative to the boundaries of the page they are lying on. So everybody who really thinks that the solution we will provide in 2.3 is not enough for them should vote for issue 1598.
The implementation is buggy: Issue 76699
Well, let's call it a collision between two features. :-) Thanks for finding it!
Thanks guys, I´ve waited for this for more than year. It´s cool now.
2.3.1 There is option to align page to left!? I WANT to left!! or is it "hard to implement"?
This option won't get implemented. The overwhelming majority of our users seemed to want what we got now - a centered view. Adding more options always makes code more complicated and more error prone and it adds UI clutter. You can't make everything configurable, this should be reserved for situations where the demand seems to be high enough.