Preview of white font on... white background... what to do?

[C. Boemann]

On Monday 04 June 2012 15:55:47 Pierre Stirnweiss wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 2:30 PM, C. Boemann <cbo at boemann.dk> wrote:
> > On Monday 04 June 2012 14:21:07 Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > a problem with the otherwise great text style previews in the style
> > > selectors is that they fail if the color of the style is the same as
> > > the background in the selector. E.g. the installed "Colorful Document"
> > > ODT
> > 
> > has
> > 
> > > a white color for the header text style, so the name will not visible
> > > in the selector if the background of the selector is white as well.
> > > 
> > > Any good idea what to do about that?
> > 
> > I assume in the template it's supposed to be on top of something
> > colorful. Hmm
> > no I don't have a solution for that, not really much we can do.
> > 
> > And then.. I was thinking that instead of scaling down previews that
> > doesn't
> > fit we should always draw them at their right size, even if we cut them.
> > But at
> > the same time we should with the small font, (using xor) draw the name.
> > Then
> > at least the name would always be visible.
> 
> I am not sure I follow you entirely there. By drawing style preview (as
> opposed to names), are you referring to the style preview in the style
> manager dialog? as opposed to the combo list where only the names are
> displayed, in which case the name would still be scaled down to fit?
> 
> PierreSt
No I was thinking in combos. I'm not set on this idea, it's just a though for 
now.