Word 2004 Doesn't Print Picture Objects that Word X Prints

[Roger]

I created business cards for my daughter (in a combination of English
and Japanese) using Word X a year or so ago. Each card has a little
logo of her employer in the upper left-hand corner. If I open the
document, you see a page of 10 cards, formatted for printing. However,
if I print the cards in Word 2004 (latest rev), only the right column
of cards has the logo. The left one has blanks (and the text remains
in the correct place-it doesn't move left to take up the space of
the logo.)

To expand, the logos are definitely there. If I click on them, the
picture framing boxes appear around them. I can move the objects with
no problem. They print out fine using Word X on another of my Macs.
What makes Word 2004 different and is this fixable?

 

[Roger]

Almost forgot: if anybody cares, both Macs are running Panther 10.3.9
with all updates and the printer is an HP 960c. I didn't think it was
too relevant because both machines have the same OS and both are
printing to the same printer.

 

[Jeff Wiseman]

I created business cards for my daughter (in a combination of English
and Japanese) using Word X a year or so ago. Each card has a little
logo of her employer in the upper left-hand corner. If I open the
document, you see a page of 10 cards, formatted for printing. However,
if I print the cards in Word 2004 (latest rev), only the right column
of cards has the logo. The left one has blanks (and the text remains
in the correct place-it doesn't move left to take up the space of
the logo.)

To expand, the logos are definitely there. If I click on them, the
picture framing boxes appear around them. I can move the objects with
no problem. They print out fine using Word X on another of my Macs.
What makes Word 2004 different and is this fixable?

I'm surprised it's not the other way around (i.e., the graphics
are ok but the text on the cards are fouled up). For more info
see my recent thread here called "Fonts fouling up in word pictures".

I am becoming more and more convinced that Word Pictures support
in Word 2004 is about as brain dead as they come. How could
regression testing at MS possibly have let these types of bugs in
such a basic feature of Word get out? (Unless, of course,
regression wasn't actually being done in order to meet release
schedules...)

In the above mentioned thread, John McGhie had pointed out that
font support in Word X is based on Quickdraw and Word 2004 is
based on the current Mac's ATS. If this is true, it would imply a
significant difference in the way graphics are supported too.
Quickdraw is the legacy graphics support environment from the pre
OS X days. The current OS X graphics support is supposed to be
something like OpenGL (which ironically enough started on the PC).

I'm not entirely clear on all this so any other input from those
more knowledgable would be great. However, it seems clear to me
that the graphic underpinnings of Word X and Word 2004 are
significantly different and Word 2004 has problems with it.

 

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

Hi Roger:

Jeff's thoughts are certainly a possibility, but I think you are being hit
by the Word Mac "Can't print graphics in the first column of a table" bug.

Make a copy of that document, and type a line of text above the table (Use
Table>Split table to put a paragraph above the table). Try again: your
line-up will be out, but chances are that first column will now print
correctly.

If that's the case, then you need to re-make the labels page: that document
is now corrupt, and I do not know of a successful cure for it. There's a
patch on the way for that condition.

If the problem does not come right when you put text above the table, then
that's not the problem and I don't know the answer.

Hope this helps

I created business cards for my daughter (in a combination of English
and Japanese) using Word X a year or so ago. Each card has a little
logo of her employer in the upper left-hand corner. If I open the
document, you see a page of 10 cards, formatted for printing. However,
if I print the cards in Word 2004 (latest rev), only the right column
of cards has the logo. The left one has blanks (and the text remains
in the correct place-it doesn't move left to take up the space of
the logo.)

To expand, the logos are definitely there. If I click on them, the
picture framing boxes appear around them. I can move the objects with
no problem. They print out fine using Word X on another of my Macs.
What makes Word 2004 different and is this fixable?

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Sydney, Australia +61 4 1209 1410

 

[Jeffrey Weston [MSFT]]

Hey Roger,

You can doing this to get your column of Cards to Print properly:
1. Select the image
2. On the Formatting Palette under the "Wrapping" Pane. Try "resetting" the
wrapping style.
For example, if the current wrapping style is set to "Tight" try changing it
to "Behind Text" or "In Front of Text", then back to "Tight".


If the current wrapping style is already set to "Behind Text" or "In Front
fo Text", then just try changing it to "Tight" and checking if it prints.


Thanks


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Jeffrey Weston
Mac Word Test
Macintosh Business Unit
Microsoft


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[Rob Daly [MSFT]]

Yeah - John's assessment sounds about right. This is a known issue and
something we have been working on. The workaround should fix your problem.
Let me know if it doesn't and I can attempt to deal with your case directly,

Thanks,


--
Rob Daly
Macintosh Business Unit
Word Test

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