Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: abiword
Once you colorize some text, you cannot ever quite return it to the
original state. That's because there is no button for "default text
color" like there is for "clear highlighting". When you go back to
black, you go back to a black that over-rides the style. That means
the output xml looks like this:
<p style="Normal" xid="2"><c>One</c><c props="color:000000"> two
</c><c>three.</c></p>
Even though, to the unaided eye, all the words are identically black.
This has some bad side-effects. First of all, it means your document
progressively gets fragmented into smaller and smaller chunks if you use
font colors during collaborative editing. And *that* means you cannot
merge these fragments, and *that* means that the saved file is bigger
than it ought to be.
I attach an abiword file containing words "One two three." I had
changed the font color on "two" then changed it back to black.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: abiword 2.8.6-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-23.37-generic 2.6.35.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-23-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Nov 13 14:59:45 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.1)
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_GB.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: abiword
** Affects: abiword (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug maverick
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Abiword doesn't have a button for "default color" for font
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/674959
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