Bug 60452 - FORMATTING: Characters with Outline Font Effect printing very pale
Summary: FORMATTING: Characters with Outline Font Effect printing very pale
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
3.5.6.2 release
Hardware: All All
: low normal
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Blocks: Writer-Styles-Character Print
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Reported: 2013-02-07 22:56 UTC by Zoltan Laszlo
Modified: 2023-07-15 03:13 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Zoltan Laszlo 2013-02-07 22:56:23 UTC 
Problem description: Characters with Outline Font Effect printing very pale

Steps to reproduce:
1. Open a new document in Writer
2. Input some text
3. Format Character->Font Effects, check Outline
4. Print document

Current behavior: Characters with the Outline Effect look pale in printing. The same happens when exporting to PDF and printing from Acrobat Reader. However, on magnifying the document to 1500 % (yes, 15 times 100 %) the outlines seam healthy. Maybe they are too thin to be printed? I used a Brother DCP-7030 printer for testing.

Expected behavior:

              
Operating System: Windows 7
Version: 4.0.0.2 rc
Comment 1 Joel Madero 2013-03-21 15:27:44 UTC 
Thank you for reporting this issue! I have been able to confirm the issue on:
Version 3.6.5.2 
Platform: Bodhi Linux 2.2 x64
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As I've been able to confirm this problem on an earlier release I am changing the version number as version is the earliest version that we can confirm the bug, we use comments to say that the bug exists in newer versions as well.

Marking as:

New (confirmed)
Normal - Could potentially affect high quality/professional work
Low - not so bad that it is unusable, 



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Comment 2 QA Administrators 2015-02-19 15:50:19 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 3 Buovjaga 2015-03-08 16:04:13 UTC 
Still observed.
Doing a huge magnification on the PDF shows the outline is intact.

Win 7 Pro 64-bit, LibO Version: 4.4.1.2
Build ID: 45e2de17089c24a1fa810c8f975a7171ba4cd432
Locale: fi_FI
Comment 4 tommy27 2016-04-16 07:24:02 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 5 QA Administrators 2017-05-22 13:24:45 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 6 QA Administrators 2019-12-03 14:09:14 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 7 Bibi 2021-07-14 18:48:02 UTC 
Still observed on version 7.0.6.2
The outline is here, but so thin that we almost cannot see it on the PDF (directly exported) or printed with Microsoft print to PDF.

Version: 7.0.6.2 (x64)
Build ID: 144abb84a525d8e30c9dbbefa69cbbf2d8d4ae3b
CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19042; UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL: win
Locale: fr-FR (fr_FR); Langue IHM : fr-FR
Calc: CL
Comment 8 QA Administrators 2023-07-15 03:13:21 UTC 
Dear Zoltan Laszlo,

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