At 15:56 16/05/2009 -0400, Eustace Fril wrote:
I have been using white text on dark background on my system and use
Automatic colors in OOo, and the table borders appear black and
there is no option to set their color to Automatic. In
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=23655 towards the
bottom of the page mt writes:
[...] In Tools/Options/Appearance, you configure the color to be
used for the help lines, when the table cells don't have a border. [...]
Which are the "help lines"? I can't find them in the list.
Basically I do not think I understand what this guy is saying,
except that he closed the issue. Can somebody make it clear? Has the
issue been replaced with another one to set the color to Automatic
for whatever reasons? But wasn't this the issue in the first place?
There are a number of issues here, and I'm not sure I can address
them all successfully. But here are some thoughts.
I don't know, but details such as this may well depend on your
operating system; you do not say what this is, but it appears to be
Windows XP. 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? And you say you have not
made any specific changes in OpenOffice. In that case, I see no
problem. If I set white-on-black as a "High Contrast" option in my
Windows XP and then use OpenOffice, the default colour for table
borders remains black; this means that such borders print in black,
but they appear on screen in OpenOffice as white (on black). If you
want to change this *border* colour - so that the document prints
differently - you can do so at Table | Table Properties... | Borders
| Line | Color (or right-click | Table... | Borders | Line | Color).
If you choose not to give your table any border, it can nevertheless
be helpful, of course, to be able to see the table *boundaries*
whilst you are editing. These boundaries are what are described as
"help lines" above, I think. These appear light grey by default, and
on my system this light grey is perfectly visible against a black
background. (There is no reason to ask what colour they print, of
course, since they don't!) It may be that your table boundaries have
somehow become switched off; if so, you can toggle this setting at
Table | Table Boundaries (or right-click | Table Boundaries). If you
need to change the colour of these boundaries from light grey to
something else, you can do this at Tools | Options... |
OpenOffice.org | Appearance | Custom colors | General | Table boundaries.
Another thing worth saying is that the issue you quote (23655) dates
from 2003 and refers to version 1.1. It suggests that changes would
be made in version 3.0. If you are seeing behaviour different from
the above (which I have confirmed in 3.1.0 for Windows XP), it may be
that you have an older version of OpenOffice and may wish to upgrade.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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