Wrong color in pdfs

[maximeB]

Note: I'm not sure whether this issue come from mwlib or mwlib.rl.

If I put tags "font color=red" the text in the wiki is red, BUT in the pdf it appears green !
I also tried other colours :

green appears black
yellow → cyan
blue → blue

Quite odd isn't it ?

Thing funny I noticed: if you put font color=red in the pageheader variable (for instance), it works !
It seems the parser is in cause.

[v0lk3r]

I did some tests and came to the conclusion that the PDF viewer might be the culprit!

On Linux acroread and evince displayed the colors correctly. epdfview on the other hand screwed up and red text was displayed in blue.

What PDF viewer are you using?

I am closing the ticket, reopen if the viewer is not to blame

Edit: Article used for testing: https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Benutzer:Volker.haas/Test&oldid=111234274

[maximeB]

I don't know how to reopen it.
I tested with both evince and acroread.
I tried your test, it correctly appears red, BUT you used a "span" tag with a "style" statement to set the colour red.
My problem is when I use the font tag which can be use to set a colour without a "style" statement.
I will use the "style" way to set text's colour, but still the bug exists in the code !

[schmir]

please provide a test case (probably best as a user page on wikipedia)

[maximeB]

I don't know how to provide it. Just put inside a wiki page:
test
then run mw-render or do it with the collection extension, you will see.

[v0lk3r]

Thanks for this ticket - I finally fixed it and had fun with colors!

Totally unrelated side notes:

• epdfview seems to have problems displaying colors correctly on my machine. I fixed this with apt-get purge epdfview
• If I am not mistaken, the font tag has been deprecated since HTML 4.01 - this was 1999! The usage of this tag inflicts major physical pain! Please don't ever use this tag again, people get hurt that way!
• In the future please provide a link to a minimal example of an article that shows the problem. That way you don't force me to make the example. This is what caused the whole confusion since I refused to make a test case with the font tag. (When I finally did, I even logged out and made an anonymous edit ;)). Test cases can easily be constructed in the wikipedia user space after creating an account. See http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Volker.haas/Test

[maximeB]

I'm sorry but to me putting css into html tag is quite dirty too. The users of my wiki may understand better this way to changing the font (actually it is quite "user friendly").
But I agree with you it would be better if people does not use it at all.
For the test sorry but I don't have an account (yet) on wikipedia.