Paragraph displayed spacing has changed after changing Libreoffice version

[philzik]

I had the 6.2 6.2 Libreoffice version for MacOS, then switched to Windows 11 with the 25.2.5.2 version.

After opening the same .odt documents in the new version, the displayed spacing between paragraph has changed (as shown by the vertical ruler). However, when checking with Format > Paragraph, I can read that the Paragraph spacing parameters (before and after paragraphs) are exactly the same in both versions.
I also checked the Page border and they are also the same.

• Any idea where this issue might be coming ?

Unfortunately I cannot upload two screenshots to show the difference

Thanks for the help!

[Grantler]

@philzik

Unfortunately I cannot upload

You could upload a sample file and the screenshots to the cloud and then share the links.
Most e-mail providers (gmail etc.) grant a personal cloud or just use an uploading service like mediafire.com.

[ajlittoz]

Are the same fonts installed on both systems?

How is your document formatted: styles or direct format?

[philzik]

Here are links to screenshots of the document in the 6.2 and the 25.2 Libre office versions.
I think the issue is that I am using styles where I defined spacings both before and after paragraphs. For some reasons these spacings were not added in the 6.2 version and are now added in the 25.2 version, explaining why the displayed spacings are now larger.

6.2 : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OxS-Yipf5m5uDGFVcjfOG-E1G38O2xum/view?usp=sharing
25.2 : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1D4XmLJybHMjBjuzgWKLjsJiJtBJKYa7j/view?usp=sharing

[EarnestAl]

In Tools > Options > LibreOffice Writer > Compatibility did you have Add spacing between paragraphs and tables ticked in 6.2 and unticked in 25.2?

[ajlittoz]

Obviously, fonts are not the same (though your screenshots are not identically scaled, look at the “1” in the header: one is sans-styled, the other is serif-styled; also weight does not seem to be equal). It is then possible that the fonts have not the same vertical metrics.

Using both spacing before and after is good practice. Too many users erroneously make do with only “after”. Paragraphs follow a box model where there is spacing over all 4 edges. Each spacing is a proper property of the paragraph and is part of its semantics. It is far easier to achieve good-looking layout playing with “before” and “after” than only one of them because you clearly “isolate” the significance of each paragraph instead of creating a meaningless relationship between them. In addition, this decreases the temptation to fix vertical distance with direct formatting.