Saving images in PDF from Mac to PC

[Nirado Griffin]

Hello,

Can anyone help with an issue I am having in trying to get the same result
on a Mac and PC in Word Office 2008.

In a template I have created a logo as part of a header and it has a
reflection, created with the image effects new to this version. Looks great.
However when sent to a colleague on PC who needs to use this template for a
large number number of docs, in saving to PDF it holds the image, but not
the reflection and destroys the effect.

Any ideas how to preserve it?

Have suggested she make sure her Office 2007 has latest updates, etc. but as
per Clive Huggan¹s very helpful document
(http://word.mvps.org/Mac/Bend/BendWordToYourWill.html)...maybe it is the
fundamental differences between the way Macs and PCs deal with printing.

I am still working on getting my Mac Word documents to read and print
coherently on a PC...so could well be back on the help boards seeking
advice!

Appreciate any help you can offer ...

Thanks,
Nirado

 

[Rob Schneider]

I'm not sure if the two images are adjacent in the doc, but if they are
why don't you use a graphics program to put them together into one
image. Then only one image is printed and it should come out the same
on both, or as near as the printer drivers on each make it so.

--rms

www.rmschneider.com

 

[CyberTaz]

What file format are you saving the template as? What file format is the
other user saving the document as before generating the PDF? If either is
not using an OXML format the Reflection effect isn't supported. Other than
that it's hard to hazard a guess without much more explicit detail about the
construction & nature of the graphic as well as the specific workflow being
followed to output the PDF.

You might want to try saving the logo, itself, in an appropriate graphics
file format & inserting that into your template in place of the Word graphic
object you created.

--
HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
Office:Mac MVP

Hello,

Can anyone help with an issue I am having in trying to get the same result
on a Mac and PC in Word Office 2008.

In a template I have created a logo as part of a header and it has a
reflection, created with the image effects new to this version. Looks great.
However when sent to a colleague on PC who needs to use this template for a
large number number of docs, in saving to PDF it holds the image, but not
the reflection and destroys the effect.

Any ideas how to preserve it?

Have suggested she make sure her Office 2007 has latest updates, etc. but as
per Clive Huggan's very helpful document
(http://word.mvps.org/Mac/Bend/BendWordToYourWill.html)...maybe it is the
fundamental differences between the way Macs and PCs deal with printing.

I am still working on getting my Mac Word documents to read and print
coherently on a PC...so could well be back on the help boards seeking
advice!

Appreciate any help you can offer ...

Thanks,
Nirado

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Hello,

Can anyone help with an issue I am having in trying to get the same
result on a Mac and PC in Word Office 2008.

In a template I have created a logo as part of a header and it has a
reflection, created with the image effects new to this version. Looks
great. However when sent to a colleague on PC who needs to use this
template for a large number number of docs, in saving to PDF it holds
the image, but not the reflection and destroys the effect.

Any ideas how to preserve it?

Have suggested she make sure her Office 2007 has latest updates, etc.
but as per Clive Huggan’s very helpful document
(_http://word.mvps.org/Mac/Bend/BendWordToYourWill.html_)...maybe it is
the fundamental differences between the way Macs and PCs deal with printing.

I am still working on getting my Mac Word documents to read and print
coherently on a PC...so could well be back on the help boards seeking
advice!

Appreciate any help you can offer ...

Thanks,
Nirado

Hi,

The reflection effect is preserved when bringing the document to the PC,
but the PC must have Office 2007 or later in order to display reflection.

Within Office 2008 on your Mac, you can easily save the logo with
reflection by right-clicking or control-clicking the logo and choosing
to Save As Picture. There are several formats available, including PDF.
If you then re-insert the picture into your document, the PC will
display it with reflection even with old versions of Office for Windows.

-Jim

 

[Nirado Griffin]

Hi,

The reflection effect is preserved when bringing the document to the PC,
but the PC must have Office 2007 or later in order to display reflection.

Within Office 2008 on your Mac, you can easily save the logo with
reflection by right-clicking or control-clicking the logo and choosing
to Save As Picture. There are several formats available, including PDF.
If you then re-insert the picture into your document, the PC will
display it with reflection even with old versions of Office for Windows.

-Jim

THANKS JIM!,

This helps a lot. Displaying the reflection was never in question. It is
just in printing to pdf. Have done several trials as you suggest (saved as
jpeg and pdf and reinserted) and am awaiting response from the PC user to
see whether the pdf will preserve the shadow.

Will let you know. Thanks again.

 

[Nirado Griffin]

Have saved the template as .dot. (As per suggestions from Clive's manual for
sending to PC) Have just now tried it as .dotx and sent for the receiver to
test.

..docx is the OXML format is that correct?

Have followed Jim Gordon's suggestions and reinserted the graphic as a
picture in jpeg and pdf. (png didn't cut it)

Awaiting results from the recipient in a different time zoen.

Thanks so much for the response.