Re: [libreoffice-users] Font colors on Windows vs. Linux

On 3/2/2020 6:32 AM, Philip Jackson wrote:
> ...
>
> I imagine the color palette situation on my Ubuntu box reflects the 
> history of my LO installations from Ubuntu over the years. Although I 
> am surprised that two palettes with the same name can exist in the 
> drop down lists.
That was my surprise as well, which prompted my original post. I teach 
at a local college as well as my church and always use slide 
presentations for my classes. My Windows box is newer with a nice long 
battery life for teaching a class without having to plug things in. My 
Linux laptop is old and tired, so I tend to use the Windows machine more 
often. However, for a reason I haven't yet figured out, it doesn't work 
well with my church's Epson projector. The projector keeps resetting 
itself in the middle of a presentation, so, I still use my Linux 
computer to show my slide presentations at church.

What this means is that I create and edit my slides on my Windows 
computer and then transfer them over to the Linux computer for showing 
in church. Since I can never leave things alone, I am constantly doing 
final editing on the Linux computer, which is how I discovered the 
difference in color palettes. I use blue and red font coloring for 
highlighting and I was surprised to find out that "Blue" on my Windows 
LO installation is different than "Blue" on my Linux LO installation, 
and that the "standard" palette on Windows LO doesn't include "Blue 4," 
which is what I use on Linux LO. The result is that colored text on a 
slide created in Windows LO is a different shade than colored text on a 
slide edited in Linux LO.

I have to believe that, having different color resources on the 
different versions of LO would make life frustrating for people sharing 
documents between Windows and Linux computers.

Part of me was wondering if this is something dictated at the level of 
the operating system. However, because I'm constantly searching for 
different/better solutions, I also use LyX/LaTeX/Beamer and 
RMarkdown/Slidy to create slide presentations, and I haven't noticed any 
differences in colors between my Windows and Linux installations of 
those respective respective systems.

Virgil


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