System: Win 7x64, LO 5.0.0.2 The new text-highlighting from LO 5 does not work for all colors. For example: RGB#666600 does work RGB#6666ff does not work (appears gray in WinWord 2010 or after reopened in LO5) See the attached files. Possible related Bugs: 64490, 65403, 65404 Cheers
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Created attachment 116964 [details] Exported docx file with LO5002
Confirmed the wrongess, when using the default export option: Highlighting. However, if you choose Tools - Options - Load/save - MSO - Export as: Shading, it works ok! Win 8.1 32-bit MSO 2013 Version: 5.0.0.2 Build ID: a26d58f11b99b6aeddf7f7884effea188cc6e512 Locale: fi-FI (fi_FI)
Hi, MSO Highlighting attribute allows only 15 colors which means LO Highlighting needs to be converted to these colors during export. Other options is to use Shading setting as Beluga wrote. You can find more information about MSO highlighting / shading color selection here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/hub/archive/2011/04/05/how-to-select-more-highlight-colors-in-word.aspx On the other hand as I see this conversion can be better. That blue color in the example should be converted to a some blue color and not a grey one. I will check how we can improve the conversion.
I see. Because not everyone is an expert in exporting, "Shading" would be possibly the better default setting? Cheers
Zolnai Tamás committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=16f9cf57e20ffbe34cb184f694f465708250a578 tdf#92471: Improve color conversion to MSO highlighting It will be available in 5.1.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
(In reply to ralf.krapf from comment #6) > I see. Because not everyone is an expert in exporting, > "Shading" would be possibly the better default setting? Highlighting is the default, because it is called highlighting in both programs (MSO Word and LO Writer), so it can be expected that highlighting (LO) is exported as highlighting (MSO). I read also some user problems about that users can't remove highlighting in Word, because it was actually shading (it seems highlighting feature is more familiar in Word than shading): http://www.wordbanter.com/showthread.php?t=85055 I added a better conversion algorithm now which works much better with LO standard color palette, so hopefully the conversion during export won't be a problem.
Zolnai Tamás committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-5-0": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=9bde8bdab1024b24a71d56a4355a5eacca720007&h=libreoffice-5-0 tdf#92471: Improve color conversion to MSO highlighting It will be available in 5.0.1. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Zolnai Tamás committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-5-0-0": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=5c3a4419d10f1645fc1dd4d160b674a0b274cf2e&h=libreoffice-5-0-0 tdf#92471: Improve color conversion to MSO highlighting It will be available in 5.0.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Zolnai, it's not clear to me, how the improvement is defined, because there is still a conversation problem (see for example bug 125268 and it's duplicates).
(In reply to Dieter from comment #11) > Zolnai, it's not clear to me, how the improvement is defined, because there > is still a conversation problem (see for example bug 125268 and it's > duplicates). MSO has 16 highlighting colors. We convert the char background to these 16 highlighting colors. This conversion was improved: e. g. blue color is converted to blue, a yellow color converted to yellow, etc. We can't solve all conversion problems if there is a difference between the two softwares.
Thanks for quick response and explanation.