Printing Black and White - problems with arrows

ronaskew · Newbie Joined: 31 May 2012 Posts: 4

I'm having problems printing in BW in OO3.3.0.
I have a slide which contains arrows to point to things on a image.
When I select the BW print option, the heads of the arrows disappear and therefore do not appear on the printout.
Any reason ? I have another laptop with OO1.1 on it and this doesn't happen - the arrows print in their entirety.
Ron

pitonyak · Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2012 5:35 am Post subject:

Couple of thoughts Ron.

If you look at Tools > Options > OpenOffice.org > Print, are the options set the same?

Also, are you printing to the same printer? There may be an issue that is related to an interaction between OOo and the printer driver.
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ronaskew · Newbie Joined: 31 May 2012 Posts: 4

Thanks for the reply.
Minor error in my first post - my laptop had oo1.0.3 on it not 1.1

Anyway - as far as I can tell the options are the same (the GUI has changed, but all I've done in each case is use default options, just selecting Black & White printing) and it doesn't matter what printer I use (they all do the same, as does PDF Creator if I use that to save paper )

It's easy to reproduce though in oo3.3.0
Just create a new presentation
Draw an arrow on it (use default black colour)
Select Print and select Black & White in the Impress tag, and immediately (even in the preview window) the head of the arrow has disappeared.
(If I do the same in 1.0.3, the head of the arrow remains in the printed file.)

Looks buggy to me ??

One other thing I've discovered
If I put a circle on the slide, then if I print B&W, then the circle is printed without a fill regardless of what fill colour I use in the slide (even black). This happens in both 3.3.0 and 1.0.3.

Is this a bug or a feature Confused

pitonyak · Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2012 2:58 pm Post subject:

How do you choose to print black and white? Is this in the print options as part of windows?
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ronaskew · Newbie Joined: 31 May 2012 Posts: 4

File -> Print

Then select the "OpenOffice.org Impress" tab

then just select the "Black & white" button under the "Colou"r set of options

pitonyak · Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2012 8:30 pm Post subject:

Thanks, I opened a bug against this. If you have an account, add a comment and/or add yourself to the CC list. This is the list from which the bug will be fixed I believe.

https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=120075
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ronaskew · Newbie Joined: 31 May 2012 Posts: 4

Thanks Andrew