[Bug 167586] Single page/blank document in Writer is displayed too high on a vertical (portrait) screen

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Sat Jul 19 17:44:54 UTC 2025


https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167586

--- Comment #7 from V Stuart Foote <vsfoote at libreoffice.org> ---
(In reply to Takenori Yasuda from comment #5)
> As a possible implementation strategy, we could follow the same approach
> that LibreOffice Draw already uses: centering the working page vertically
> within the window.

Hmm, in fact the sdraw module does exactly that! Never noticed...

> 
> This aligns with the current behavior in Writer when working with multi-page
> documents. For a single-page or blank document, applying the same logic
> would be consistent and ergonomically beneficial.

Would need a reliable way for os/DE to signal it has opened to a Portrait
display orientation, I don't think we'd want to disrupt things for folks on a
display in more typical horizontal orientation.

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