Bug 73202

Summary:	Writer text formatting Font Colour does not display
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	stbreock
Component:	Writer	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED NOTABUG
Severity:	normal	CC:	momonasmon
Priority:	medium
Version:	4.2.0.1 rc
Hardware:	x86-64 (AMD64)
OS:	Windows (All)
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Attachments:	selected text colour has been changed to red, but displays as black. Correct colour shown in Format > Character dialog

Description stbreock 2014-01-01 11:57:58 UTC

Created attachment 91387 [details]
selected text colour has been changed to red, but displays as black. Correct colour shown in Format > Character dialog

Overview:

Changing font colour either via toolbar icon or via side bar does not display new colour on screen, but new colour is shown in pdf export and in Format > Character dialog. 

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Select text
2. Click Font Colour icon either on toolbar or on sidebar
3. Change font colour
4. New font colour does not display on screen
5. ...but if export file to pdf correct changed font colour is shown
6. also if subsequently use Format > Character dialog, correct font colour is displayed in dialog box.

Actual Results: 
New font colour does not display on screen

Expected Results: 
Correct font colour should display on screen

Build Date & Platform:
Version: 4.2.0.1 (RC1)
Build ID: 7bf567613a536ded11709b952950c9e8f7181a4a

Wndow 7 64-bit

Additional Information:

I have Apache OpenOffice 4.01 installed on the same machine and it does not show this behaviour i.e. with identical toolbar icon, sidebar & dialog boxes, the correct result is obtained, suggesting that this is a bug related to this build of LO, and not to my machine & is not a legacy feature from OO.

Comment 1 Maxim Monastirsky 2014-01-01 12:35:15 UTC

Hi,

Take a look at Tools->Options...->LibreOffice->Accessibility->Options for high contrast appearance. There is a setting called 'Use automatic font color for screen display'. If it's checked, please uncheck it. You might also need to reopen the current document. Does it solve your problem?

Comment 2 stbreock 2014-01-01 13:51:45 UTC

Thank you that does indeed solve the problem, so it's not a bug!
But... it does mean that on this install LO defaulted to this option and OO didn't (since I took the default installation options for both). It might be easier if LO defaulted to being able to use the normal toolbar & sidebar settings, rather than disabling this feature & hiding the solution away somewhere.

(In reply to comment #1)
> Hi,
> 
> Take a look at Tools->Options...->LibreOffice->Accessibility->Options for
> high contrast appearance. There is a setting called 'Use automatic font
> color for screen display'. If it's checked, please uncheck it. You might
> also need to reopen the current document. Does it solve your problem?

Comment 3 Maxim Monastirsky 2014-01-01 15:26:13 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> it does mean that on this install LO defaulted to this option and OO
> didn't (since I took the default installation options for both).
AFAIK the installation doesn't set such settings. It might be only set by the user after launching LO. If you didn't set this, it even might be a bug.

Also keep in mind that 4.2.0.1 stores its settings in the same place as previous versions (4.0 or 4.1), and those settings aren't removed when you uninstall (or upgrade). So you might have this setting left from a previous installation (or 4.2.0.1 didn't interpret the old settings correctly for some reason).

> It might be
> easier if LO defaulted to being able to use the normal toolbar & sidebar
> settings, rather than disabling this feature & hiding the solution away
> somewhere.
It *is* the default, and I can confirm this with a clean install of 4.2.0.1 under Windows 7. So I have no idea what happened in your case.