LibreOffice - thumbnails and print preview display reversed coulours

Davor Balder davor at cropakglobal.com
Wed Dec 4 05:11:32 UTC 2019


Hi all,

I can confirm export to PDF works well from LibreOffice writer.

This is on 12.1-RELEASE-p1, updated up to today.

Kind regards


D

On 2019-12-04 11:48, Polytropon wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Dec 2019 13:10:07 -0500, James B. Byrne via freebsd-questions wrote:
>> FreeBSD-12.0p3
>>
>> Following a recent pkg upgrade an update to LibreOffice causes it to
>> display thumbnails and print previews in white on black instead of
>> black on white as formerly was the case.  Sometimes LO also fails to
>> correctly create pdf files using the export to pdf option on the file
>> menu.  When it fails it does not place any text in the document but
>> any inserted images are included in the pdf. This does not happen
>> frequently, but it does happen.
> Seems that I'm not the only one who noticed this! :-)
>
> I can confirm this on a 12.0- system installed from scratch
> in November 2019: The Print Preview dialog is damaged, as well
> as the preview images displayed in the MATE file manager
> (cannot remember its name, sorry). However, actual printing
> and dealing with files works fully normal. The "full screen
> print preview" also displays correctly.
>
> This is very disappointing...
>
> I haven't checked the "Export to PDF" feature yet, but will
> definitely do this, as this is vital (unlike the thumbnail
> and preview part, which is annoying, but doesn't matter that
> much.)
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