Re: [libreoffice-users] Failure to Apply Text Color

Brian's advice quoted below worked for me. It was an issue with 
accessibility having a check box ticked.

Yes I had 5.3.3.2 installed on Ubuntu 17.04.

Blessings, Joe


On 06/11/2017 09:35 AM, Tim-L--Elmira-NY wrote:
> Hey Joe. . .
>
> I just installed 5.3.3.2 on my Ubuntu 16.04 laptop.  I had 5.2.x 
> installed but I realized that I had forgotten to install the newest 
> version when I did on a different laptop [17 inch].  That different 
> one had a fresh install of both Ubuntu 16.04 and Windows 10 Home.
>
> Here is what I tried.
> I pasted some text into Writer.  I selected a large block of text and 
> then clicked on the font color [red was the last one used].  I had no 
> problems with it changing the text to red.  I tried changing colors 
> and no issues there.
>
> Since I do not have 17.04 installed, I could not test it using that OS.
>
> Just for reference - what version of LibreOffice was installed with 
> Ubuntu 17.04?  I tend to installed the latest version of LO after I 
> upgrade to a newer OS.  Of course, I tend to forget to upgrade LO 
> after that.  3 strokes can do that.
>
>
> On 06/09/2017 03:26 PM, Brian Barker wrote:
> > At 12:06 09/06/2017 -0700, Joe Conner wrote:
> > > When I select and mark some test then click on the Writer Font Color 
> > > icon to apply a color the text remains unchanged. Clicking on the 
> > > Highlight Color icon will apply highlighting to the marked text. Has 
> > > anyone else seen this? Am I doing something wrong or maybe have some 
> > > setting is set wrong?
> >
> > You probably have Tools | Options... | LibreOffice | Accessibility | 
> > Options for high contrast appearance | Use automatic font colour for 
> > screen display ticked. Remove the tick. (You may need to reload any 
> > document before its display will change.)
> >
> > With this option ticked, the text is coloured in the document file 
> > and will print as coloured - but does not display as such. You can 
> > see the true text colour in Page Preview - unless you also have Tools 
> > | Options... | LibreOffice | Accessibility | Options for 
> > high-contrast appearance | Use system colours for page previews ticked.
> >
> > > Should I open a bug report?
> >
> > Probably not.
> >
> > I trust this helps.
> >
> > Brian Barker

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