Re: PNG graphic in Word - white prints as very pale grey

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From: Bob Buckland ?:-\) ("Bob)
Date: 12/21/04

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    Hi Jon,

    If I create a blank PNG rectangle that is all white
    and print to a PDF file and then use an on screen
    color checker it's still coming up as 255/255/255.

    How is the PNG file created? Are you saving a
    transparency color, or setting the grey scale
    properties?

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      <<"Jon" <jon@no.spam> wrote in message news:%23J8fT%23U5EHA.1564@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
    If I insert PNG graphic in Word (I've tried W97 & W2003), white (RGB all
    equal to 255) gets converted to very pale grey (RGB all equal to 254) when I
    print the document on my laser printer. JPEG and GIF don't have this
    problem. Any suggestions of what I can do to make white really white with a
    PNG. The original PNG that I inserted into Word definitely had true white
    (RGB all equal to 255) in it.

    If I do a screen capture of the Word document and analyse it in my photo
    editing programme (Paintshop Pro), white is correct (RGB all equal to 255).
    If I convert it to Acrobat and analyse the screen capture, white becomes
    very pale grey (RGB all equal to 254). So it appears to be a printing
    problem (since Word does a 'print' to produce an Acrobat document. >> 

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