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 -- Abiword doesn't have a button for "default color" for font https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/674959 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs