Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 68222
Impress printing handout slide borders without reduced transparency aspect leads to almost invisible borders
Last modified: 2017-05-20 11:11:28 UTC
Using Impress (680m180 which was not yet listed in the tracker as of now) to print handouts of the slides (tested 2 per page) leads to almost invisible borders around the single slides if OOo is *not* allowed to reduce the transparency aspect. If OOo *is* allowed to deal with the transparency aspect (and reduce this) to make printing faster, the borders around the single slides are printed OK in handout style. BTW: Printing the slide borders on the handout themselfs is just working again since issue 54989 got fixed a few days ago.
sorry, not reproducible. The result looks the same, with reduced transparency or not. Is this problem visible when printing to a postscript file? Thanks.
Yes, it is visible on paper printouts printed by OOo generated postscript files. The difference is also visible using GhostScript/GSview viewing the postscript file with a larger zoom factor. Here is more background: Im using OOo Dev 680-m180 on Windowx XP Pro. The options for printing to printer and printing to file are set the same. No checkbox is checked except for the "Printer warnings->Transparency" checkbox. I assume that this checkmark will produce the warning dialog at printing time where I then choose to reduce transparency to get the border/frame of the slides printed correctly and where I choose not to reduce the transparency to get dogdy borders printed. In the latter case there are 'some' lines of the border rectangle visible but most of the time only two out of the four lines comprising a full rectangle are visible. And these two lines are even thinner than the borderlines printed with reduced transparency. Thanks, for looking into this.
Ok, I have generated a .ps file now where I can see something like that. After opening the file in ghostview the borders are not painted in any way. If you start to zoom they are painted sometimes. The same for the object borders. I will attach two screenshots of the effect.
Created attachment 38332 [details] ps-File
Created attachment 38333 [details] screenshot1
Created attachment 38334 [details] screenshot2
I am confused about borders and object borders. Anyway I will appebd the following attachments: transparency-test-without-transparent-object.odp producing transparency-test-without-transparent-object.pdf (looks as expected) and transparency-test-with-transparent-object.odp producing transparency-test-with-transparent-object-transparency-not-reduced.pdf with full transparency (looks bad) and transparency-test-with-transparent-object-transparency-reduced.pdf with reduced transparency option (looks good again). The PDFs are generated by printing impress handouts from OOo directly Free PDF XP on a Win XP Pro machine. transparency-test-with-transparent-object-transparency-not-reduced.pdf contains the faulty borders.
Created attachment 38337 [details] Presentation without transparent objects. Prints handout OK.
Created attachment 38338 [details] Handout w/o transparent objects. OK.
Created attachment 38339 [details] Presentation w/ transparent objects. Handout printed faulty under some conditions.
Created attachment 38340 [details] Handout w/ transparent objects. Transparency reduced. Prints OK.
Created attachment 38341 [details] Handout w/ transparent objects. Transparency not reduced. Prints bad/no slide borders.
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