Writer - How to keep it from printing highlight

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#1

I’m using Writer 7.3.5.2 (x64)

In the “tonal” color scheme, fluorescent green and cyan don’t show up well, in a black and white printout.

I figured out how to do a global change of highlighted text, and white text (on dark highlighting)
. . . [but I think when I did it on a 200 page document, it messed up my line-spacing]

So, I can easily change the highlighting, [but saw some unexpected results, I will have to work with it more]
. . . but change them to what? I would have to figure it out. Here’s what I’m thinking:

1.) take a screenshot of all the color pallets
2.) print them out
3.) get a basic idea from this, of which colors would be the best to use
4.) try it again on some highlighted text

But then I’m thinking, this must have already been figured out.
. . . I think I found that “html” green and blue were closer to being usable.

Is there a web page that explains what to do?

#3

Check on using styles. Changes like this are much easier then. Line spacing should not be involved in both ways.

#4

Please improve you question by editing it. The title suggests you don’t want any highlight on print (“keept it from printing”) while the description discusses colour optimisation.

What is fundamentally missing in your description is how you highlight your text. If you do it with styles, it is very easy to tune the colours and they will apply automatically to the document. On the contrary, if you apply highlighting with direct formatting, stop immediately and learn styling. This also suggests you don’t use styling to format and layout your text. Note that Writer offers a multi-layer approach to styling (which is not provided by the competitors, notably M$ Word) where paragraph style defines the base formatting upon which you can apply character style to make variations on the base.

#2

Try WebAIM: Contrast and Color Accessibility - Understanding WCAG 2 Contrast and Color Requirements

#5

These answers help a lot, thank you!

I guess my main question, though, is,
if you want to print out to black and white on a laser printer,
and some of your text is highlighted,
which pallet do you want to use,
and which colors, or,
would all the colors in the pallet be usable? (best)

It seems like there would be a pallet created, specifically for this purpose.
Any idea what it is?

#6

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