Created attachment 124510 [details] One-slide presentation showing desired feature: characters in one color, outlined in a different color This is a "would-be-nice" in Impress and probably in other components as well. In order to emphasize and highlight some characters on my slides, I like to format with the same font color as other characters but highlighted in a different color. The attached example presentation shows normal green characters, green characters with the "outlined" effect selected (which means they are white with green outlines), and green characters with white outlines. That third choice is something that Impress cannot easily do at present. I do it manually by this procedure: 1. Select the box containing the desired text, copy, and paste, so that there are now two copies, exactly aligned. 2. Select one copy (select all characters), choose "Character" from the context menu, change the font color to white, and select "outlined." 3. With the box containing the new white copy selected, choose "Arrange" from the context menu and move it back. Now only the white outline is visible around the normal characters. This is tedious. It seems to me that a new dropdown "Outline color" (and maybe also "Shadow color") could be added to the Font Effects tab of the Character (formatting) box. The Automatic choice would be white outlined with the font color, while any other choice would draw the characters in the font color, outlined with the selected choice.
Sounds reasonable.
Main menu Format > Character or context menu Character... > Font Effects > [x] Outline does the trick. Although you cannot change the color inside the outline, see bug 103996. Guess this can be closed, please reopen in case something is missing.
Heiko Tietze, in Comment 2, says "...Outline does the trick," but that misses the point of my request, which is to select a font color that's different from the outline color. Outline does not do that trick. Bug 103996, which Heiko references, and which is a duplicate of mine, contains a comment from V Stuart Foote to the effect that achieving this goal is "trivial to do in the Fontwork feature...." I disagree. I have not found that getting the output of Fontwork to match normal text in point size, character width, or spacing is trivial at all, and some fonts (e.g., Magneto) give very strange results in Fontwork because of overlapping characters. In fact, using Fontwork is even more tedious than the manual, multistep process that I described in my request. You may of course choose not to implement this enhancement, but please don't dismiss it so casually.
Okay, then let's make the other ticket a duplicate. For my taste, the title was easier to understand so I adjust it here.
*** Bug 103996 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***