Bug 158156 - DeepL translation changes font color from Automatic to black
Summary: DeepL translation changes font color from Automatic to black
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
24.2.0.0 alpha0+
Hardware: All All
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
URL:
Whiteboard:
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks: Automatic-Color DeepL
  Show dependency treegraph
 
Reported: 2023-11-10 09:47 UTC by Timur
Modified: 2025-12-04 03:15 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

See Also:
Crash report or crash signature:


Attachments
Sample ODT (332.62 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text)
2023-12-01 17:42 UTC, Timur
Details
smaller sample ODT differentiating Automatic colour from other colours (14.08 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text)
2023-12-04 11:44 UTC, Stéphane Guillou (stragu)
Details

Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.
Description Timur 2023-11-10 09:47:15 UTC
Deepl translation changes font color from Automatic to None.
Not seen with Light document mode but a problem in Dark mode.
Comment 1 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2023-12-01 15:05:46 UTC
Not reproduced in:

Version: 24.2.0.0.alpha1+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 619500d6919c227e734b119481a4b334972e0b7b
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-AU (en_AU.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded

I tested with both "Dark" and "Light" scheme in Options > LibreOffice > Application Colors. Character font effects still use "Automatic" font colour after translating.

Do you have more precise repro steps? Still an issue in a recent master? Which OS?
Comment 2 Timur 2023-12-01 17:42:24 UTC
Created attachment 191180 [details]
Sample ODT

Seems this depends, here is a document where I reproduced .
Comment 3 Timur 2023-12-01 17:51:07 UTC
Seems this is how selection is replaced. 
New text takes properties not of replaced text, but of previous one.
So if default is None or Black, text with Automatic will be replaced with it.
Comment 4 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2023-12-04 11:40:49 UTC
Thanks, confirmed in:

Version: 24.2.0.0.alpha1+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 619500d6919c227e734b119481a4b334972e0b7b
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-AU (en_AU.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 5 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2023-12-04 11:44:02 UTC
Created attachment 191216 [details]
smaller sample ODT differentiating Automatic colour from other colours

Smaller sample ODT to test:

1. set up DeepL translation experimental feature
2. select all text
3. "Tools > Translate" to e.g. German

Results: Teal font colour not lost, but Automatic font colour replaced by black (which doesn't even match the Body Text style's default colour).
Comment 6 Timur 2023-12-04 15:15:03 UTC
May be duplicate of bug 79717 ,but let us keep separately until either is fixed.
Comment 7 QA Administrators 2025-12-04 03:15:55 UTC
Dear Timur,

To make sure we're focusing on the bugs that affect our users today, LibreOffice QA is asking bug reporters and confirmers to retest open, confirmed bugs which have not been touched for over a year.

There have been thousands of bug fixes and commits since anyone checked on this bug report. During that time, it's possible that the bug has been fixed, or the details of the problem have changed. We'd really appreciate your help in getting confirmation that the bug is still present.

If you have time, please do the following:

Test to see if the bug is still present with the latest version of LibreOffice from https://www.libreoffice.org/download/

If the bug is present, please leave a comment that includes the information from Help - About LibreOffice.
 
If the bug is NOT present, please set the bug's Status field to RESOLVED-WORKSFORME and leave a comment that includes the information from Help - About LibreOffice.

Please DO NOT

Update the version field
Reply via email (please reply directly on the bug tracker)
Set the bug's Status field to RESOLVED - FIXED (this status has a particular meaning that is not 
appropriate in this case)


If you want to do more to help you can test to see if your issue is a REGRESSION. To do so:
1. Download and install oldest version of LibreOffice (usually 3.3 unless your bug pertains to a feature added after 3.3) from https://downloadarchive.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/old/

2. Test your bug
3. Leave a comment with your results.
4a. If the bug was present with 3.3 - set version to 'inherited from OOo';
4b. If the bug was not present in 3.3 - add 'regression' to keyword


Feel free to come ask questions or to say hello in our QA chat: https://web.libera.chat/?settings=#libreoffice-qa

Thank you for helping us make LibreOffice even better for everyone!

Warm Regards,
QA Team

MassPing-UntouchedBug