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Description of problem: When a document is exported to PDF format, links are always rendered with their default colors, regardless the user settings. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): libreoffice-writer-4.3.7.2-5.el7_2.1.x86_64 Steps to Reproduce: 1. Select some text, ctrl-k, insert link, Apply, Close 2. Go to Menu, Tools, Options, LibreOffice, Appearance 3. Choose red color for (un)visited links, hit OK 4. Export document to pdf, view it. Actual results: Link in blue. Expected results: Link in red.
These settings are for LibreOffice itself, not for a document. If you want some links in a specific color, use a character style.
What do you mean by "for LibreOffice itself"? It changes the link color inside documents and I believe LibreOffice is supposed to be WYSIWYG. This is definitely not the case. In addition, the same works just fine in LibreOffice Impress so it would make sense to have the behaviour consistent across LibreOffice applications.
(In reply to Petr Šplíchal from comment #2) > What do you mean by "for LibreOffice itself"? It changes the link > color inside documents No. It _does not_ change the link color inside documents. It changes the way LibreOffice presents links. > and I believe LibreOffice is supposed to be > WYSIWYG. This is definitely not the case. WYSIWYG has never worked that way. There are two kinds of stuff that the user sees: stuff that is part of the document and stuff that helps the user to work with the document (page border marks, table frames, gray background of fields, spell checker underlines, nonprintable characters etc.). The link color belongs to the latter category too. > In addition, the same > works just fine in LibreOffice Impress so it would make sense to > have the behaviour consistent across LibreOffice applications. So this is a bug that should be fixed.
Thanks for clarification. But, well, what's the point of that option anyway? Why would a user want to change the way how the links are displayed? I find this feature very very confusing.
I suppose it was either a result of feature creep or an a11y concern (to allow color-blind people to set better recognizable colors). The former seems more likely.