Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 87147
Tools->Options->Appearance - colors should match what comes out of a printer
Last modified: 2013-08-07 15:31:14 UTC
In my opinion the default color for the Document Background should be white (or a similiar light solid color) instead of the current transparent color. This is because the way it is currently configured by default inherits the Gnome theme's color which in many cases is not representative of wysiwyg output when printed. e.g. in OOo Writer with a dark gnome theme the page color by default is dark and the text is white. This also indicates that the font color should not be transparent but black by default since that is the color that will actually print unless the color is manually changed. Using something other than black for the text actually is very misrepresentative of what will come out when printed since the document could potentially end up actually using font colors and end up using the same or very near same color in some of the text (manually selected) which will print out as such and then the rest of the text being the Gnome theme color will then print as black. To the user looking at the document in its current transparent form the text could potentially look to all be the same 'default' color. I don't know about the rest of the colors used under Tools->Options->Appearance but they probably need to be revisited as well. The default colors should match what color will come out when printed/exported to PDF.
Ubuntu may be switching to a dark background for the release in October 2008 (Ubuntu 8.10), so fixing this bug for 3.0 would be very helpful.
I can still confirm this bug in 3.0.1 This is especially annoying in openoffice.org Draw, since the default background of a picture is the theme color for input boxes, even when there is none selected in the page options. The annoying part is when you export a 'drawing', since I would like a transparant (or at least white) background but it is not like this, and I find no obvious way to change it but by changing my system theme...
@ hi: Please have a look.
*** Issue 91335 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Hi Chris, Could you confirm that this issue is a duplicate of #70501 which is itself a duplicate of #35482 which is targeted for 3.2. Thanks in advance - Sophie
sgauti, As far as I can tell the bug isn't a duplicate of those other bugs, however the way those other bugs will be solved _might_ solve this one. I am not sure what is being done to solve the other bugs though. From what I recall this bug is triggered even when the Gnome theme isn't dark enough to trigger the High Contrast mode bug which is what the other two bugs reports refer to. Chris
sgauti, Basically the premise of this bug is that setting the colors under Tools->Options->Appearance to "Automatic" aka using the Gnome Theme colors by default is a very bad idea. At least for any of the color items that appear in documents. Since they will be seen on screen as one set of colors and then be printed out with an entirely different set of colors. Chris
No updates on this since July? It looks like Issue 80636 is a duplicate of this one, or maybe a dependency. It got marked as an Enhancement, IMO in error. I do note that, at least as of OO 3.1, print preview for the word processor at least seems to use the correct colors.
@ES: I think you are already familiar about this case in cause of accessibility. Please take over, Thanks.