Pictures having unwanted borders

[Tom Benjey]

I am currently using Pub2007 but have seen the problem on earlier releases,
too. Pictures, generally, photographs sometimes display with a brown or black
(it's hard to tell which) border on one side only. I think it is usually the
left side but could be mistaken. How does one eliminate these unsightly lines?

 

[DavidF]

Did you perhaps crop the image from within Publisher?

Have you tried updating your video driver?

I haven't seen the problem, or heard it reported before on this newsgroup.
Do you have a link to an example on your website?

DavidF

 

[Rob Giordano \(Crash\)]

also happens when the canvas is slightly bigger than the image
area...depends on how the image was manipulated.

--
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Rob Giordano
Microsoft MVP Expression





| Did you perhaps crop the image from within Publisher?
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| Have you tried updating your video driver?
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| I haven't seen the problem, or heard it reported before on this newsgroup.
| Do you have a link to an example on your website?
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| DavidF
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| | >I am currently using Pub2007 but have seen the problem on earlier
releases,
| > too. Pictures, generally, photographs sometimes display with a brown or
| > black
| > (it's hard to tell which) border on one side only. I think it is usually
| > the
| > left side but could be mistaken. How does one eliminate these unsightly
| > lines?
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[Tom Benjey]

Page http://www.tuxedo-press.com/index_files/Page527.htm demonstrates the
problem with the necktie that was rotated into a horizontal position. The
image was cropped using Photoshop before insertion. It was also increased in
size after insertion. The machine was shipped by HP on 12/21/97 and is
updated automatically, so the video driver is probably current.

Thanks,

Tom

 

[DavidF]

The problem appears to be caused by rotating the image in Publisher. Try
rotating the image in photoshop before you insert it. The actual image that
is uploaded is not rotated, nor does it show the "border" or line:
http://www.tuxedo-press.com/Necktie.JPG

As per the size of the image, if you don't want to resize the images before
you insert them, then compress all the graphics before you "Publish to the
Web" to produce your web pages:

Reference: Compress graphics
file sizes to create smaller Publisher Web pages:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/publisher/HA011266301033.aspx

DavidF

 

[Tom Benjey]

I rotated the image in Photoshop. The unwanted border is now on the top of
the image in Web Page Preview and, being worse, I didn't publish it to the
web. I then cropped the rotated image in Photoshop and the problem persists.
Perhaps the solution is to take a new photo with the proper orientation so
that no rotation is necessary.

Tom

 

[DavidF]

Tom,

Sorry, but thanks for posting back. I was hoping the problem was rotating
within Publisher.

I just saved the image from http://www.tuxedo-press.com/Necktie.JPG to my
computer, inserted it into a Pub 2003 web publication, previewed, and
regardless of whether I rotated it or not, I did not get a line. Then I
reread your message and remembered you were using Pub 2007, so tried the
test again, and this time did reproduce your results.

After playing around with it, I found that after inserting the image, and
selecting it, I went to the Picture tool bar, chose "Set transparent Area",
and clicked in the "white" area around the tie. Then when I did a preview
the line was gone. Let me know if that fixes the problem for you.

DavidF

 

[Tom Benjey]

Thanks, David. That did the trick. Thanks also about letting me know about
the set transparent command. I was not aware of it and will use it for other
things in the future.

Tom

 

[DavidF]

Great! I am glad it worked and appreciate you posting back.

DavidF