{"id":2886,"date":"2019-02-18T11:48:22","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T10:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ybierling.com\/v2\/?p=2886"},"modified":"2019-02-04T17:49:33","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T16:49:33","slug":"libreoffice-get-colors-back-in-pdf-exports-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ybierling.com\/v2\/en\/libreoffice-get-colors-back-in-pdf-exports-2\/","title":{"rendered":"LibreOffice get colors back in PDF exports"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 id=\"libreoffice-get-colors-back-in-pdf-exports\">LibreOffice get colors back in PDF exports<\/h2>\n<p>Since OpenOffice [1] moved to LibreOffice [2], direct consequence of Sun Microsystems bought by Oracle [3], some differences may have been felt, except name change.<\/p>\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/1254144\/ybierling_com-medrectangle-3_0__container__\"><iframe id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/1254144\/ybierling_com-medrectangle-3_0\" title=\"3rd party ad content\" src=\"https:\/\/tpc.googlesyndication.com\/safeframe\/1-0-31\/html\/container.html\" name=\"\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-is-safeframe=\"true\" data-google-container-id=\"3\" data-load-complete=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span id=\"div-gpt-ad-ybierling_com-medrectangle-3-0\" class=\"ezoic-ad ezfound\" data-google-query-id=\"COj-la3BouACFcLV1QodKY4Afw\"><\/span><a class=\"noclass\" title=\"OpenOffice.org - the Free and Open Productivity Suite\" href=\"http:\/\/www.openoffice.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> OpenOffice.org &#8211; the Free and Open Productivity Suite <\/a><br \/>\n<span id=\"ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-163\" class=\"ezoic-adpicker-ad\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/1254144\/ybierling_com-large-leaderboard-2_0__container__\"><iframe id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/1254144\/ybierling_com-large-leaderboard-2_0\" title=\"3rd party ad content\" src=\"https:\/\/tpc.googlesyndication.com\/safeframe\/1-0-31\/html\/container.html\" name=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-is-safeframe=\"true\" data-google-container-id=\"4\" data-load-complete=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span id=\"div-gpt-ad-ybierling_com-large-leaderboard-2-0\" class=\"ezoic-ad ezfound\" data-google-query-id=\"COzkqq3BouACFQ-HUQodx4oAcw\"><\/span><span id=\"ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-187\" class=\"ezoic-adpicker-ad\"><\/span><a class=\"noclass\" title=\"LibreOffice, free and open source productivity suite\" href=\"http:\/\/www.libreoffice.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> LibreOffice, free and open source productivity suite <\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"noclass\" title=\"Oracle and Sun\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oracle.com\/us\/sun\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> Oracle and Sun <\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"ybierling_com-link-h-large-1\" class=\"ezo_link_unit_m\"><\/div>\n<p>One of them, on my LibreOffice version (actually 3.3.3), had a particular impact on me : my PDF exports were systematically black and white.<span id=\"ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-176\" class=\"ezoic-adpicker-ad\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>For example, while working on a LibreOffice Writer document (Fig 1), containing some colored titles, I noticed that PDF export, with same options (Fig 2) as before version change, was exported as a black and white PDF (Fig 3).<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"b-lazy b-loaded\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ybierling.com\/images\/medium\/officeproductivity\/libreofficegetcolorsbackinpdfexport\/libreofficegetcolorsbackinpdfexport1.png\" alt=\"LibreOffice get colors back in PDF exports : Libre Office Writer colored source document\" width=\"240\" height=\"202\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">LibreOffice get colors back in PDF exports : Libre Office Writer colored source document<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"b-lazy b-loaded\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ybierling.com\/images\/medium\/officeproductivity\/libreofficegetcolorsbackinpdfexport\/libreofficegetcolorsbackinpdfexport2.png\" alt=\"LibreOffice get colors back in PDF exports : Fig 2 : LibreOffice PDF export parameters\" width=\"240\" height=\"154\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">LibreOffice get colors back in PDF exports : Fig 2 : LibreOffice PDF export parameters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"b-lazy b-loaded\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ybierling.com\/images\/medium\/officeproductivity\/libreofficegetcolorsbackinpdfexport\/libreofficegetcolorsbackinpdfexport3.png\" alt=\"LibreOffice get colors back in PDF exports : Fig 3 : LibreOffice black and white PDF export\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">LibreOffice get colors back in PDF exports : Fig 3 : LibreOffice black and white PDF export<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>A simple solution that I propose you, is to look in your print options (Ctrl + P). Once in the print screen, go in the LibreOffice Writer tab, and uncheck &#8220;Print text in black&#8221; option (Fig 4). Cancel is enough, it is not necessary to start printing.<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"b-lazy b-loaded\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ybierling.com\/images\/medium\/officeproductivity\/libreofficegetcolorsbackinpdfexport\/libreofficegetcolorsbackinpdfexport4.png\" alt=\"LibreOffice get colors back in PDF exports : Fig 4 : LibreOffice printing options\" width=\"240\" height=\"163\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">LibreOffice get colors back in PDF exports : Fig 4 : LibreOffice printing options<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Re-export then your file in PDF, and colors are back (Fig 5)!<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"b-lazy b-loaded\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ybierling.com\/images\/medium\/officeproductivity\/libreofficegetcolorsbackinpdfexport\/libreofficegetcolorsbackinpdfexport5.png\" alt=\"LibreOffice get colors back in PDF exports : Fig 5 : LibreOffice color PDF export\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">LibreOffice get colors back in PDF exports : Fig 5 : LibreOffice color PDF export<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>On my computer, this manipulation have to be done each time I start LibreOffice [2], as this option is automatically checked, even if I change it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LibreOffice get colors back in PDF exports Since OpenOffice [1] moved to LibreOffice [2], direct consequence of Sun Microsystems bought<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[332,328,191,330],"class_list":["post-2886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-various","tag-export","tag-libreoffice","tag-opensource","tag-pdf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ybierling.com\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ybierling.com\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ybierling.com\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ybierling.com\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ybierling.com\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ybierling.com\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2888,"href":"https:\/\/www.ybierling.com\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886\/revisions\/2888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ybierling.com\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ybierling.com\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ybierling.com\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ybierling.com\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}