Picture behind my text not printing

[tshad]

I have a picture that I have floating behind my text.

It looks great.

The problem is that it won't print. What I get is a big yellow box with my
text in it the size of the picture.

If the picture isn't behind the text it prints fine.

How do I fix this?

Thanks,

Tom

 

[Beth Rosengard]

Hi Tom,

Any chance that in Preferences> Print, you don't have "Drawing Objects"
checked?

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[tshad]

Hi Tom,

Any chance that in Preferences> Print, you don't have "Drawing Objects"
checked?

That is checked.

I also copied an excel sheet from excel and pasted it as a picture, but the
boxes in excel (which were drawn in) look fine until I print it. None of
the boxes colors are printed. The boxes are black and text is the correct
color, but the boxes filled in color is white.

I don't know if this is the same problem or not.

I am running on Mac G4 running Word (office) 2004.

Thanks,

Tom

 

[tshad]

That is checked.

I also copied an excel sheet from excel and pasted it as a picture, but the
boxes in excel (which were drawn in) look fine until I print it. None of
the boxes colors are printed. The boxes are black and text is the correct
color, but the boxes filled in color is white.

I don't know if this is the same problem or not.

I am running on Mac G4 running Word (office) 2004.

I found out the problem

I had set the brightness to 75% to allow my titles to show on top of my
picture. I found that even with the picture by itself, if I set it to 75%,
it printed as all yellow (even though the preview showed it fine).

If I changed it to 70%, it worked fine.

Not sure why it showed correct at 75% and didn't print correctly.

I also found that if I opened a new document and pasted the my excel cells
(and boxes) as a picture it printed fine (all the colors worked great). But
if I did exactly the same thing in my document (about 40 pages), it would
not print the colored boxes as colored. Even on the screen it would show as
black and white with some colored areas. As I scrolled up and down some of
the boxes would show the colors correctly or only some of the box would be
colored and the other part of the box would be white.

I assume this has something to do with the size of the document.

Not sure why that is a problem, though.

Thanks,

Tom

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

Hi Tom:

The only thing I can tell you for sue is that you have NOT found your
problem yet

Screen brightness has nothing to do with the way things print.

OK, we need to know which OS you're running, and which Service Releases you
have applied to Office 2004. And I still need to know what kind of graphic
it is that you are trying to print.

The graphics/printing capability in Word had a series of bugs that were
progressively fixed in most cases via service packs.

The bugs concerned "layering" in the PostScript output. When an image is
output to a PostScript printer, the image has a "bounding box" created that
marks the outermost extremities of the picture. This is the yellow square
you are seeing.

The bugs concerned layering of objects embedded in Word documents. The
bounding box "should" be the *bottom* layer, so that everything can appear
in front of it, and thus print. In OS X, word had bugs that would reverse
the layers so the bounding box came out on top and that was all you saw.

The bounding box is also supposed to have "no fill". Word had a bug that
would flip the colour from "0" to "-1" (Peak White). Somehow, in your case,
that is being turned from white to yellow.

I would be sorely tempted to delete and replace your printer driver as part
of this exercise. The printer driver is heavily involved in telling Mac OS
where to put the layers in a graphic.

Cheers

I found out the problem

I had set the brightness to 75% to allow my titles to show on top of my
picture. I found that even with the picture by itself, if I set it to 75%,
it printed as all yellow (even though the preview showed it fine).

If I changed it to 70%, it worked fine.

Not sure why it showed correct at 75% and didn't print correctly.

I also found that if I opened a new document and pasted the my excel cells
(and boxes) as a picture it printed fine (all the colors worked great). But
if I did exactly the same thing in my document (about 40 pages), it would
not print the colored boxes as colored. Even on the screen it would show as
black and white with some colored areas. As I scrolled up and down some of
the boxes would show the colors correctly or only some of the box would be
colored and the other part of the box would be white.

I assume this has something to do with the size of the document.

Not sure why that is a problem, though.

Thanks,

Tom

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