[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 33041] Allow page background to cover the whole page, not only within page borders/margins

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33041

--- Comment #34 from Lenge <Spampot at gmx.net> ---
Yes, 5.4 can now "emulate" the desired behavior with the mentioned workaround:
1. All page Margins = 0
2. No borders
3. Spacing to Contents = <desired page margins>

While this is a big step towards resolving this issue, it has at least one
major drawback (so IMHO the issue cannot be closed at this point):

When the workaround is applied, the horizontal and vertical paragraph rulers
are moved and expanded to cover the entire page instead of only the text area.
This is extremely ugly and affects all elements whose coordinates are based on
the rulers (e. g. paragraph indent and tab markers), which are no longer in
place when some "Spacing to Contents" is used instead of "Margins".

I'd propose to resolve this by ALWAYS aligning the rulers to the text space
WITHOUT the internal padding (= "Spacing to Contents") - consistently for the
page, text frames and any other places that might apply.

This will probably require testing with multi-column settings and might even
affect compatibility with older documents, yet it is still the "cleanest"
approach IMHO. In fact, the rulers should really have accounted for the padding
in the first place, and maybe an according compatibility setting is enough to
resolve any potential backwards compatibility issues.

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