Layered autoshapes not printing as they appear in print preview

[ZachnHeather]

I made my own "clipart" using autoshapes with fading color placed on top of
each other to make it look shiny. It looks fine on the screen and in print
preview but when I try to print it to anything it seems like the transparent
objects go solid and do not fade together properly.

 

[Keith Howell]

Hi,

I think this is a bug. If you follow
homepages.tesco.net/keithhowell/500dwp18.htm it ends up with the same
problem. A possible work around is to save your design page as a web page so
that it forces Word to turn your graphic into an image file (eg gif or jpg).
Now insert that image file into a new page (you may not see it on the screen)
and print it. It may well now produce the effect you want. It doesn't always
work so let me know how you get on

Best of luck

 

[ZachnHeather]

No, it didn't work but thank you anyway. I just took the two problem shapes
out and now it is fine. It would be cuter with the two shapes but I will
live!

 

[CyberTaz]

What you have in the doc is a visual effect created by light (RGB) which can
be displayed, but layered transparency on paper (Ink) doesn't work - as you
found out. In a graphics program (Photoshop, Illustrator) you can create the
effect & the software sends the 'flattened' result out in the graphic format
of your choice - that's what gets sent to the printer.

In a word processing program the stacked objects are *not* being flattened
because the program isn't designed for that purpose. IOW, Word isn't
equipped to do the extensive & intense conversion. As a result you wind up
with one graphic (layer of ink) overprinting another, which doesn't render
the same as displayed on screen.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac