At 13:41 17/09/2007 -0400, Lanisha Monly wrote:
For some reason open office on mac will not print in black and white. I have no idea why. I have even tried to print in gray scale on this program and it still prints in either blue or purple. It's not my printer settings. Adobe and my world text processor prints in black. The open office on my pc prints in black but I can't use my pc regularly because it always over heats and shuts down. How get open office on my mac to print black ink?
Go to Tools | Options... | OpenOffice.org | Accessibility, and you will see a tick box labelled "Use automatic font color for screen display". One possibility is that you have this option ticked by mistake. Is the box ticked? If so, that is your problem; remove the tick.
This option is designed to enable you to see the text easily - normally in black or white - in edit and Page Preview modes, even when you may have set the font colour to something else for the actual printing. If you have actually set your text colour to blue or purple but have this box ticked, the text you see will be black and you will not know that it is actually ready to print in the other colour or colours. The option displays the text in black, even in Page Preview mode, while preserving its actual colour set up for printing.
Once you have removed this option, you will be able to see the text in its true colour. Select all the relevant coloured text and change its colour to genuine black in the normal way: use the Font Color control on the Formatting toolbar or the controls on the Font Effects tabs of the Character or Paragraph Style dialogue boxes.
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