[Solved] 3.5: how do I bring text boundaries back?

[Agilar]

In libreoffice3.5 text boundaries has disappeared. Now there are only _| in all angles. Is it possible to bring visible text boundaries back?

Both workarounds (with boundaries and page background) are genious.

[Villeroy]

You can't. This is just another "feature" where they introduced a feature for the sake of MS Office mimicry.

[franx]

That's fixed for LibO master in
→ Bug 46073 - Page Layout Guides (margins, headers, footers) No Longer Visible

You can show the boundaries via View > Nonprinting Characters, Ctrl+F10, ...

Sample
master~2012-02-29_04.21.51_LibO-Dev_3.6.0alpha0_Win_x86_install_en-US.msi

Target: LibreOffice 3.6.0
→ Release Plan v 3.6.0
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[dreamquartz]

I created a border via Format->Page->Borders->Line Arrangments, chosing a full border (2nd from the left), Style: continuous line, Width: 0.05; Color: Grey 10%; Spacing to contents: 0 & Synchronize.
Saved it as my standard template.

This provides me with a border very similar to the border from LO 3.4.5.

Dream

[Bill]

I created a border via Format->Page->Borders->Line Arrangments, chosing a full border (2nd from the left), Style: continuous line, Width: 0.05; Color: Grey 10%; Spacing to contents: 0 & Synchronize.
Saved it as my standard template.

This provides me with a border very similar to the border from LO 3.4.5.

Dream

There's a big difference. Boundaries are formatting aids which only appear on the screen. Borders are part of the document and will be printed when the document is printed.

[dreamquartz]

I created a border via Format->Page->Borders->Line Arrangments, chosing a full border (2nd from the left), Style: continuous line, Width: 0.05; Color: Grey 10%; Spacing to contents: 0 & Synchronize.
Saved it as my standard template.

This provides me with a border very similar to the border from LO 3.4.5.

Dream

There's a big difference. Boundaries are formatting aids which only appear on the screen. Borders are part of the document and will be printed when the document is printed.

You're right.
I was happy with my solution, but did not test it.
The solution given by franx does not work in my situation.

Thx,

Dream

[Ponny]

Mijau

There is another user of LibreOffice 3.5.1 who needs text boundaries. Not very often, but it is useful from time to time.

civ-civ

Ponny

[PeaceByJesus]

I am another appreciative user of OpenOffice and LibreOffice, but who finds the lack of the Text boundaries detrimental and unnecessary, and having it was one of the positive attributes over MS Office, which needs not to be copied in this case.

Like dreamquartz, went the border route, but as said, that will result in it being printed, while all the hundreds of text documents we have will open up with the text boundaries being visible. I suppose some consider this an enhancement, but I think you will have many more seeking for a way to restore this feature. I will mainly stick with OOo 3.3.0 for now (I run both). Thanks for listening.

[Bill]

I am another appreciative user of OpenOffice and LibreOffice, but who finds the lack of the Text boundaries detrimental and unnecessary, and having it was one of the positive attributes over MS Office, which needs not to be copied in this case.

If they're copying MSO, they must be copying a very old version. Word 2000 displays both text boundaries as in OOo and crop marks as in LO. Word 2010 has separate options to display both text boundaries and crop marks.

[franx]

You might try this simple workaround:

Apply a background color for the page style.
For printing: disable Contents > Page background.

[PeaceByJesus]

I am another appreciative user of OpenOffice and LibreOffice, but who finds the lack of the Text boundaries detrimental and unnecessary, and having it was one of the positive attributes over MS Office, which needs not to be copied in this case.

If they're copying MSO, they must be copying a very old version. Word 2000 displays both text boundaries as in OOo and crop marks as in LO. Word 2010 has separate options to display both text boundaries and crop marks.

Sorry. I never had MSO, and only have MS Word and find no page borders when using it, and saw in another post about Lo doing this for the "sake of MS Office mimicry," and assumed that was the case with it as well. Thanks for the correction.

[PeaceByJesus]

[quote="franx"]You might try this simple workaround:

Apply a background color for the page style.
For printing: disable Contents > Page background.

Thanks. I also think there is likely a file someplace in LibreOffice\3\user\config that could be overwritten by the previous version, but this issue is only a preference and a change we can get used to.

[Bill]

I am another appreciative user of OpenOffice and LibreOffice, but who finds the lack of the Text boundaries detrimental and unnecessary, and having it was one of the positive attributes over MS Office, which needs not to be copied in this case.

If they're copying MSO, they must be copying a very old version. Word 2000 displays both text boundaries as in OOo and crop marks as in LO. Word 2010 has separate options to display both text boundaries and crop marks.

Sorry. I never had MSO, and only have MS Word and find no page borders when using it,...

Perhaps you were using "Normal" view which doesn't show pages. Word shows text boundaries only in "Print layout" view which does show pages.

[PeaceByJesus]

Belated thanks!

[Ponny]

Meow

I have LibreOffice 4.0.2.2 (Windows XP SP3) from today.

I wish to see text boundaries. Full lines and not just corner signs.
But without nonprinting characters visible.
I can get visible borderlines only if I turn on nonprinting characters.


Ponny

[Bill]

I wish to see text boundaries. Full lines and not just corner signs.
But without nonprinting characters visible.

You'll need AOO or an old version of LO to do that.