Re: Printing background image

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From: Storm (NinzenREMOVE_at_ofir.dk)
Date: 04/19/04 

Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 23:06:34 +0200

John McGhie [MVP - Word] <john@mcghie.name> wrote:

Thank you for an insppiring answer.

> If it were *me* using the document, I would use Insert>>Object>>Microsoft
> Word Picture to create a drawing canvas. I would then assemble all of the
> graphics elements on the canvas.
>
> When the canvas appears, a little floating toolbar appears with a hash
> button (pound sign) button on it. That re-sizes the canvas to encompass all
> of the objects in the picture. Click it when the whole thing is to your
> satisfaction.
>
> When you close the canvas, the entire picture is encapsulated so that no
> parts of it can move and it cannot break across pages. To make changes, you
> double-click it.
>
> The canvas is actually a word document embedded within a Word document. It
> makes graphics stable and predictable. Regrettably, there is almost no
> documentation about it in the Help.

I have my background graphic in pdf format - that makes the canvas
solution unnecessary if I understand it correct.

I want to apply a table on top of my graphic, and I want the customer to
insert different graphics into the table cells. Perhaps I have to try
harder, but I cannot manage to apply it on top of the graphic, it makes
the canvas grahics move.

But perhaps such a solution using a pdf demands a postscript printer to
print correctly? Do you know about this?

> A watermark, on the other hand, is a graphic that exists in the header of
> the document and replicates on each page. Just because the anchor for the
> watermark is in the header does not mean the picture has to print there.
> You can drag the graphic to print anywhere on the page. You need a section
> break with its header set to "[Not] Same as previous" somewhere on that page
> so you can remove the watermark from the following pages.
>
> The watermark is a better solution for sending to customers: they can then
> screw around with the foreground graphics as much as they like without
> damaging the watermark. The downside is that bugs in the OS X printing
> system make the printed results very variable on the Mac. In OS 9 and on
> the PC it works beautifully.

I think this is going to be my solution, it is supposed to be used on
pc.

> Hope this helps

Thank you both for great help - tomorrow I will try out the watermark
possibility. I am not used to Word, so this is quite a challenge to me
:-) 

-- 
Venlig hilsen Nina Storm

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