Hi,
I have to change the font color of many items on many differnt pages of a document to Red. However, when I use the “Font Color” button, it always defaults to Dark Red, even after I’ve applied black as a color.
How do I make that color default to black instead of red?
Thanks,
L
Do you really write a manual in Draw (I don’t like to imagine it)?
Normally, the text program Writer is the right choice for such a task.
Please change the tag “Draw” to “Writer” if you write with Writer.
That way someone can offer specific help.
Thank you very much.
Do not use the manual formatting method. Use/prefer the Styles: The object styles in the Draw application, and the Paragraph styles, Character styles in the Writer application, and Cell styles for the Calc application.
No, I had a PDF document that needed to be edited (I didn’t have the original) and a lot of it meant changing font colors. It was annoying to not be able to just press on ht button and having it use black as the default
L
Hmmm… I will try that to see if it updates all the instances of an existing text.
Thanks,
L
After you have applied the Font Colour to some text, the Font Colour icon should show the last colour it applied. That works for both the Text Formatting toolbar (if visible) and the Font Colour icon in the Properties section of the Sidebar, although they can show different colours from each other.
If you click outside the text then
Can you upload a sample file here? (.odg or .pdf)
Yes, here is an example. What I’m trying to do is remove the black background and convert all the text to black. The only way I found was to select each text object individually and change the text color. But when I move from one to the other, the color in the toolbar goes back to Dark Red.
Sample PDF import.odg (12.4 KB)
After erasing the black and the white background rectangles I selected all the text boxes and changed then the Default Drawing Style :: Transparency to 100% and Font to Black. All the text parts now display as black characters. - See screenshot combination.
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True, but that’s one page. If I have multiple pages I have to repeat the process. I would like to change the style and make it apply on all the text on all the pages. Otherwise, I have to repeat that process, including changing the text filter, on every new page.
So the ideal solution is to change the style and update all the objects using that same style (I’m not sure that’s possible).
The next best thing would be to make the text color change sticky so if I go to another page, select everything and change the text color, the last color I chose is preselected instead of having to select it over again.
L
PS: I’m not at my computer so I need to test this and see if, when I tried this earlier, I messed it up. It’s possible that what you illustrated is exactly what I need and I’m not seeing it because I’m not in the app.
The object on the draw page was formatted manually. You must delete these properties manually.
Use the Ctrl-A Ctrl-M key combination AFTER you activate a page and unselect all of the objects. (click on somewhere on the area of a page and hit ESC.)
Ctrl-A = Select all of the objects on the active page.
Ctrl-M = Delete all of the manual (direct) formatting properties.
And use the Object Styles to format the objects instead of the manual formatting method. Then you never ever need the formatting icons of the toolbar.
That is a great aim. Sadly, all the objects on the page have the same style, Default drawing style. You could:
Alternatively, open the pdf in a pdf reader such as Adobe Reader, select everything, copy, and Paste as Unformatted text into Writer. Use Writer’s styles to rebuild the document appearance. This might be a quicker and more reliable way.
The list is peculiar because the numbering text boxes comes after all the written text. Even if you select just one number and its associated text, then click Shape > Consolidate Text the number will jump to the end of the line. This works in your favour if you go down the Writer route as you can delete all the numbers easily
