Re: Printing transparent text boxes over photos

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From: Bear Pair (tplampel_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 06/19/04 

Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 12:29:01 -0700

Mary, now I'm really stumped! First of all, let me clarify:
As I work on the piece, it appears exactly as I planned:
 1 large photo on bottom layer, then 2 smaller photos in opposite corners above the background photo, then there are 5 text boxes of varying size on top of both layers of photos (1 wt NO fill, and 4 wt 45 to 75% transparent fills)
It is the semi-transparent text boxes thath are causing the problem, that is NOT simply a printing problem... Even in the print-preview view, the transparent boxes appear as SOLID fills, with the black text.

I did try your suggestions, re-creating the whole thing again, or trying the text box separately, and with 1 single photo behind... EVERY TIME it does the same thing, showing the text box fill as SOLID, in the print-preview screen, rather than tranparent!

EUREKA: I think I just discovered the problem, and [I believe] it is a Publisher problem, not a settings problem:
I figured out that between 2 different docs that both used the semi-transparent text boxes, the only difference was that my "problem" one uses a 'FILL EFFECT' combination of 2 colors, rather than simply selecting a single color... The one using the single color is fine; the fill effect using 2 colors shows as a solid color block, rather than transparent!

Your turn! :-) 

-- 
Terry L. Lampel
Cup of Cold Water
t.lampel.home.att.net
"Mary Sauer" wrote:
> Delete the text box and make a new one, or copy and paste the whole thing to a new
> Publisher document.
> If you separate the image from the text box does it print okay?
>  If it worked before it should work now. You might have some corruption in the file.
> What extension is the image? Are you using BorderArt?
> 
> Transparent Texture Fill Is Not Printed As Transparent
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;820592&Product=pub2003
> 
> -- 
> Mary Sauer MS MVP
> http://office.microsoft.com/
> http://www.mvps.org/msauer/
> news://msnews.microsoft.com
> "Bear Pair" <tplampel@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:79EF5BD4-9787-4C3D-8DEE-871989D38CA6@microsoft.com...
> > Just the past couple of weeks.  One other doc prints fine, and I can't see what is
> different???  The driver for the Epson is the current one from their web site. Its
> almost as if printer AND the print preview mode is ignoring the transparency setting,
> and printing as a solid block of fill! Hope you can find a solution!
> > -- 
> > Terry L. Lampel
> > Cup of Cold Water
> > t.lampel.home.att.net
> >
> >
> > "Mary Sauer" wrote:
> >
> > > When did the printer quit handling the transparency? There is a driver for your
> > > printer on the Epson site with a December 2003 timestamp for Windows XP, maybe
> newer
> > > than what you are using. Could try the custom settings in your Epson such as
> sRGB. In
> > > Publisher there an option to print line by line with ink jets.
> > >
> > >
> > > -- 
> > > Mary Sauer MS MVP
> > > http://office.microsoft.com/
> > > http://www.mvps.org/msauer/
> > > news://msnews.microsoft.com
> > > "Bear Pair" <tplampel@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > > news:18494F04-22D3-47FD-99CD-43A5EA27B049@microsoft.com...
> > > > I'm using an Epson C-82, which has normally handled the semi-transparent boxes
> > > fine.  Of course, when I remove the "fill" the text boxes print OK, but its not
> the
> > > effect I was going for.
> > > > -- 
> > > > Terry L. Lampel
> > > > Cup of Cold Water
> > > > t.lampel.home.att.net
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > "Mary Sauer" wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > What printer are you using? Do the text boxes print okay if you remove the
> > > > > "partially" transparent fill?
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > -- 
> > > > > Mary Sauer MS MVP
> > > > > http://office.microsoft.com/
> > > > > http://www.mvps.org/msauer/
> > > > > news://msnews.microsoft.com
> > > > > "Bear Pair" <tplampel@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > > > > news:8D559AF1-A396-4857-ACC4-D8C09A7DDE8F@microsoft.com...
> > > > > > I put together several photos and text boxes on a document where some of
> the
> > > text
> > > > > boxes have partially-transparent fill colors that overlap portions of the
> photos.
> > > > > Displayed on the screen, it is great; however, when I printed it, the text
> box
> > > fills
> > > > > printed as solid blocks, covering the portion fo the photos they overlapped.
> Is
> > > there
> > > > > a setting I'm missing in order to print with the same transparency effect?
> > > > > > -- 
> > > > > > Terry L. Lampel
> > > > > > Cup of Cold Water
> > > > > > t.lampel.home.att.net
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> 
> 
>

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