Bug 83949 - font color is always black in writer and calc on Windows7
Summary: font color is always black in writer and calc on Windows7
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
4.3.1.2 release
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) Windows (All)
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Reported: 2014-09-16 21:26 UTC by w.ostrowski78
Modified: 2015-04-09 16:09 UTC (History)
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zip file contains screenshots and lo files with example colors (311.76 KB, application/zip)
2014-09-16 21:26 UTC, w.ostrowski78
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zip file contains screenshots and lo files with example colors (311.76 KB, application/x-zip-compressed)
2014-09-16 21:28 UTC, w.ostrowski78
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Description w.ostrowski78 2014-09-16 21:26:40 UTC
Created attachment 106389 [details]
zip file contains screenshots and lo files with example colors

Color of font in writer and calc is rendering always black.
The problem doesn't appear in Linux and windows xp 32bit.
I attached screenshots as well with corresponding files to reproduce the bug.
Each time I open odt or ods file on windows 7 in my job, the text
is always black.
Comment 1 w.ostrowski78 2014-09-16 21:28:11 UTC
Created attachment 106390 [details]
zip file contains screenshots and lo files with example colors
Comment 2 Adolfo Jayme Barrientos 2014-09-17 01:49:21 UTC
(Next time please don’t compress your attachments twice... first a zip and then a tarball without extension. You want us to see your attachments, right? :)

This issue is not reproducible under Ubuntu Linux, using LO 4.3.1.2: all attachments open correctly, preserving colors.
Comment 3 Adolfo Jayme Barrientos 2014-09-17 02:41:55 UTC
Just tried your sample documents under Windows 8.1, same LO version (4.3.1.2) and nope, they show up as colorful as they should.

Please try to reset your user configuration (profile) by following these instructions: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/UserProfile and then try again.
Comment 4 Maxim Monastirsky 2014-09-17 07:33:46 UTC
Hi,

Please go to Tools->Options...->LibreOffice->Accessibility, and make sure to uncheck the option "Use automatic font color for screen display". Does it solve your problem?
Comment 5 w.ostrowski78 2014-09-17 18:01:09 UTC
(In reply to comment #4)
> Hi,
> 
> Please go to Tools->Options...->LibreOffice->Accessibility, and make sure to
> uncheck the option "Use automatic font color for screen display". Does it
> solve your problem?

I removed xml file 'registrymodification.xcu' from folder '~/Application Data/LibreOffice/4/user'. I lost some configuration but the problem is fixed.
Later I tried to change Tools->Options...->LibreOffice->Accessibility.
When 'Use automatic font color for screen display' is set, libreoffice 'forgets' how to render color. Thus I think we may close the bug.
Thank you for help.