One of six grouped pictures does not print

[caradiodoc]

Scanned in a large car radio schematic in six pieces, cropped, resized, and
repositioned them, then grouped them. This was done with Windows 98 and Word
97. Images were formatted to float over text and no wrapping.

Took these projects to a different computer / printer that can print
11"x17". It's Windows XP Pro and Word 2003.

Everything looks fine on the monitor and in Print Preview, but when printed,
one of the six original scans is missing. There's just a big rectangle with
an "X" in a small box in the upper left corner of the rectangle. This is a
22 page document, (everything is scanned images), and there are two big
diagrams like this one. The other diagram prints fine. Four other similar
documents print fine. Only one other document also has only one out of 12
grouped scans that do not print.

Tried all the other suggestions about picture placeholders and printing
drawing objects, etc., but only these two inserts out of about 50 do not
print.

If it matters, many of these large drawings have a couple hundred drawing
objects inserted, (no line and white fill), to cover spots and blemishes on
the original scans. One of the scans that doesn't print has a lot of these
objects included, but so do the other scans that make up that whole picture.
And, the second scan that doesn't print does not have any of these drawing
objects included, so I don't think that's related to the problem.

Tried ungrouping the scans, then "bringing in front of text", "moving to
front", etc., but that doesn't make any difference. Any help greatly
appreciated.

Randy B.

 

[macropod]

Hi caradiodoc,

Have you tried replacing the faulty scan? If you delete the existing one, then insert a new copy, that might do the trick. For the
one with the blemishes, you'll probably need to send it to the back so that it's behind the cover spots.

Cheers

 

[caradiodoc]

Thank you for the reply. I have not tried rescanning the picture but I will
as a next attempt. I was hoping I wouldn't have to do that because I have
quite a few hours invested in the resizing and positioning.

I didn't want to get even more long-winded, but I could have mentioned that
the only way to transfer between these two 'puters is with a zip disc, and
I'm having trouble with the left button on my mouse; sometimes it rapidly
clicks twice, so it might think I'm double-clicking on something that I
didn't notice causing me to change some formatting.

One person I work with told me there's a low resolution image displayed on
my monitor and a high resolution picture used for printing, and the high
resolution image might be missing. I'd never heard of that before.

If rescanning the image works, I'll post that here, probably after this
weekend.

Thanks macropod.
(e-mail address removed)

 

[macropod]

Hi caradiodoc,

If you've still got the original scanned image on disk, you shouldn't need to re-scan it - just reinsert the existing image into the
document.

I think your friend may be thinking of images in a file format known as EPS (encapsulated postscript). They usually have both a
preview image and a detailed print image, but sometimes the preview image is omitted and you don't get to see anything except a
rectangle until the document is printed. I've never heard of the reverse occurring, though.

Cheers