Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 101479
Confusing error message when printing transparent objects
Last modified: 2013-01-29 21:48:44 UTC
When printing a document with (partly?) transparent objects the follow message comes up: "Your Document contains transparent objects. This may lead to longer printing time on certain printers. Should the aspect of transparency be reduced?" This is a very obscure question. It should be improved so that its meaning is clear to an average user. Specifically, its not clear why you might have transparent objects when you didn't create anything like that. Also the term "aspect" and how you might reduce it is very unclear. FYI I only noticed this in Writer but it very well may exist throughout OO.
This seems to have some relationship to #29669 Also I found some prior discussion about this here: http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=discuss&msgNo=19513
MRU->FL: a simpler message text could be helpful for less-sophisticated users here.
Marking as "Enhancement". adding something like "Should the aspect of transparency be reduced to speed up your printing process?" could be good.
The word "aspect" is not a good choice, its meaning is not clear. Do you mean that the transparency should be reduced (ie, treat it as opaque)? In which case does "reduced" imply that it would be not transparent at all, or somehow *less* transparent? Text such as, "should the object be treated as not-transparent to speed up printing?" might be easier to understand and less wordy. ("your printing process" also seems like an unecessary mouthful instead of just "printing".) Thanks!