At 07:58 17/05/2009 -0400, Eustace Fril wrote:
On 2009-05-16 21:43 Brian Barker wrote:
When you say you have been "using white text on dark background on
[your] system", you mean that you have set this up as an
accessibility option in Windows - right?
Not exactly. Using the Accessibility option created some problems,
so I created a theme with blue (0, 0, 104) background and white
(233, 233, 255) text.
I suspect that this is your problem: that you are doing things in a
non-standard way. If you specifically ask for black table borders on
a dark blue background, why shouldn't Writer do what you ask? You
may have to solve your "some problems" instead, and use Windows normally.
I turned the boundaries to green and checked them to see what would
happen but I do not see any difference in the appearance. The
borders continue to appear black.
Er, quite so! You will not see green boundaries when they are
covered by black borders.
I checked the table boundaries and set them to Automatic which is my
Text color. But there is not effect on the appearance of the
document. The problem is that when I open Table... > Borders > Color
is *Black*, _not_, as it should, *Automatic*, which I would expect
to show as white on my screen and print black on the printout, as
the text does.
No: you need that to be "black" (or whatever), so that you can
specify unambiguously the colour in which you want the borders to
print. (Remember that this setting is for borders, not
boundaries.) If you use the operating system's facility for
reversing the display colours, Writer will display such black borders
in an appropriate colour - perhaps white - just as you ask. That is
exactly the "automatic" result you need, of course. But it evidently
doesn't work with your non-standard technique.
It seems to me obvious that there should be a Automatic option in
the table borders color, and there isn't, and I really do not
understand why they considered the issue closed before they fixed the problem.
I don't see how this would help. I need to be able to specify the
colour of any table border as it should print, and to do that I need
the full range of colours - not something invented by Writer. So if
I want table borders to print in black, I need to set the colour to
"black". Now I also - indeed - want these borders to display visibly
so that I can see them when I am editing, even if I have a different
colour scheme set in the operating system. And that is exactly what
Writer does - providing you use Windows' facility for arranging this.
From what they write, I gather that there seems to be a solution,
but I do not understand what this solution is...
If you can use one of Windows' many "high contrast" options, Writer
appears to do exactly what you ask.
At 08:10 17/05/2009 -0400, Eustace Fril wrote:
A clarification to what I wrote: when I choose Line > Style > None,
the lines do appear white.
That's because what you are now looking at is not borders but
boundaries. The default colour for these is light grey, and this is
unchanged against your dark blue background. (It will look very much
like white in context, of course.)
But as I said, there should be an option for Color > Automatic, so
they appear white but print black, like the text does.
In effect, there is - but apparently only if you play ball with Windows.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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