Description

Page Numbering Addon

This plugin, or by LO/OO terminology add-on(an extension that includes any kind of UI implementation/customization), includes the following features:

Features

• Add page numbering without taking page-break system into account

  Although Page Breaks are an intuitive and effective approach for document layout and styling, users migrating from Microsoft Office suites find it more than difficult to understand)

• Configure styling options such as Font, Character height, Alignment and page position (Header/Footer)

• Page offset and First page options

• Numbering type selection such as Roman, Arabic or Greek

• Multiple Page numbering setups per document

• Compatibility with all modern LibreOffice/OpenOffice versions

Requirements

Python Dependencies

• libreoffice-script-provider-python package or even better uno-tools
• uno-tools required dependencies
  • OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice 3.4 or later
  • Python 3.3 or later

Issues

Please report any issues here:

https://gitlab.com/lo_extensions/lo-page-numbering/issues

Discussion

Discussion about the extension as well as suggestions can be issued either on the repo or at the following IRC channel:

https://riot.im/app/#/room/!pywEKwnnGVkNrbMljv:matrix.org

Documentation

Users

Documentation regarding the usage of Page Numbering Addon is included in the corresponding LibreOffice Help Page accessible through:

Help->LibreOffice Help (F1)-> Page Numbering Addon

From 6.1 and on versions, the help system has changed. However the same help pages are still accessible through the "Help" dialog button of the main extension window.

Development

Documentation relevant to the development and the logic that implements this extension is included in the following link:

https://gitlab.com/lo_extensions/lo-page-numbering/wikis/home

Disclaimer

This extension started as part of the Librecust project that was developed during Google Summer of Code 2018 for GFOSS:

Developer

Arvanitis Christos (info)

Mentors

Kostas Papadimas

Theodoros Karounos

Right now, mainly because of the interest in development and usage from users, the project is developed independently.

Additional documentation: https://gitlab.com/lo_extensions/lo-page-numbering/wikis/home

Homepage: https://gitlab.com/lo_extensions/lo-page-numbering