Colour change of links, after export to PDF

[radneuerfinder]

I am using NeoOffice 2.1 (Patch 1). After export to PDF all my clickable links change their color. In NeoOffice they have a strong blue, which I like. In the PDF the blue is very dark, nearly black. So links are hard to recognize in a black text.

How do I get WYSIWYG here?

[radneuerfinder]

[Guest]

The usual suspects (response you will get)

1. It is not a Neo bug but an OO.o (OpenOffice upon which NeoOffice is based) bug so ask them instead

2. If you still think it's a NeoOffice bug then go here:

http://bugzilla.neooffice.org/

3. The Neo developers have bigger fish to fry.

[yoxi]

(v1.0.2 )
Actually, it may simply be that each PDF reader app (i.e. Preview, Adobe Reader etc.) decides for itself what colour it will use to display links in a PDF doc, unless you specify the colour on a per-link basis, otherwise Neo just exports the link without colour instructions.

Some experiment suggests that NeoOffice uses a particular colour just for display purposes (I think it's the one set in Preferences-NeoOffice-Appearance-Unvisited Links); that link colour is not saved in the PDF doc itself unless you deliberately change the link font colour:

Ctrl-click on a link in your Neo doc and go to Character... in the contextual menu, you can edit the font colour in the Font Effects panel - if you choose a colour other than the default, the chosen colour will not only display in the whole URL, but will also successfully survive print/export as PDF. You'll have to do this for each URL in the doc, though.

- padmavyuha

[Guest]

Thanks for the thorough explanation yoxi.

Does seem a bit of a hassle depending upon how many links are in a document. Is this the kind of thing a Macro can be set up to handle?

[sardisson]

Does changing it just once in the hyperlink style not work?

Smokey