Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 9490
Footer usage error
Last modified: 2003-09-08 16:56:16 UTC
I use Czech version of OO 1.0.1 on MDK9.0 I tried to follow the steps described on documentation website in order to insert a "First Page" of the document where no page numbering will occure. After 4th step I got a special page, where I could disable a footer without influencing of other pages. But it was the second page of the document. When I tried to delete the first page which had remained, the special page moved to its position and its style without footer was changed to the style of a rest of the document. Thus, I lost my change. Moreover, after this fourth step, the numbering of pages was such: 1, <no footer>, 1, 2, 3... (I expected <no footer>, 1,2,3...) Some empty page between the first page and the rest of the document was also created. I could see it in a print preview, not during text editing. The information about a number of pages (displaying while moving with sidebar on the right side of the application window) in the document involved also this empty hidden page. And moreover, after longer dealing with this problem when I tried to find a way how to get a demanded result, OO totally crashed without any warning. Unfortunately, I couldn't reproduce this crash.
I followed the recipe with OpenOffice 1.1beta2, and I did see the hidden page, but never saw a crash, and the page without a page number was the first page of the document. The only part of the report I can confirm is that hidden page, and the fact that it affects the total page count. However, I think this is by design. The idea is that when doing two-sided copies, you want that blank page after the first page. Perhaps you could refile this as a documentation problem?
jw: could not reproduce with OO1.1 rc3 closed