LibreOffice Document Page Numbers Disappear after Zotero Insert/Edit Citation

dstark

In LibreOffice at least through the past several minor version upgrades, page numbers have been disappearing from the document's page footers. Today, I noticed the page number (that I had just restored from a document template) had gone missing after inserting or editing a Zotero citation.

Sure enough, if I open a new document (complete with a page number in the footer based on the document template) and I insert the first citation, the footer gets cleared and the page number disappears once I insert even a single Zotero citation.

The same happens if I add the page number back within the document (not via the template) and then add/edit a Zotero bibliography.

For reference, I'm running LibreOffice 24.2.1.2 (X86_64) and Zotero 7.0.0-beta.68+c31a40c74 (64-bit) on Windows 10 and 11.

Is this simply a bug? Or is there something I'm missing for how to get the numbering in the page footers to stick around while using Zotero in a document?

Thanks so much!

adamsmith

Almost certainly the same as https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/comment/457491#Comment_457491

dstark

Thank you, @adamsmith. I agree. Sorry I didn't come across that other thread before posting.

If I add a page number back in the footer, copy text out of the document, and paste the text back into the document as RTF, the footer does indeed disappear.

Appreciate the tip about LibreOffice v7 in the other thread too. I couldn't recall if I'd seen the issue there before upgrading to v24 or not.

Thanks, again!