{ INCLUDEPICTURE } Signatures - Formatting Black & White

[Absolete]

Hello folks,

I am setting up a Microsoft Word Merge, and including images of
signatures (jpg or bmp) as part of the process. I successfully use the
INCLUDEPICTURE tag and the images show in my result. Although this is
really great - it is useless for my purposes of printing on letterhead,
because a dithered background appears behind the signatures.

I am looking for a way to get rid of the background (sort of make the
image background transparent, in graphic artist terms). I am able to
solve this problem on a per-image basis by right-clicking on the image
selecting "Format Picture" and selecting "Black & White" under Image
Control "Color" section. Can anyone show me how to automate this with a
macro (iterate through a collection of images and change color
properties for each) or perhaps suggest an even better solution?

Thanks so much!
Max
- absolete-AT-gmail-DOT-com

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Absolete,

Could you make the signatures GIF images, and set the background of the
GIF to be transparent? That usually works fairly well.

That, or use WMF files (which, since they're vector graphics, might look
better for signatures, anyway) and make sure the option "Don't blank the
area behind metafile pictures" in Tools/Options/Compatibility is NOT
activated.

I am setting up a Microsoft Word Merge, and including images of
signatures (jpg or bmp) as part of the process. I successfully use the
INCLUDEPICTURE tag and the images show in my result. Although this is
really great - it is useless for my purposes of printing on letterhead,
because a dithered background appears behind the signatures.

I am looking for a way to get rid of the background (sort of make the
image background transparent, in graphic artist terms). I am able to
solve this problem on a per-image basis by right-clicking on the image
selecting "Format Picture" and selecting "Black & White" under Image
Control "Color" section. Can anyone show me how to automate this with a
macro (iterate through a collection of images and change color
properties for each) or perhaps suggest an even better solution?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[Absolete]

Cindy,

thank you very much for your help. I was, however, looking for
something that I found in Mark Tangard's post:

Dim sh As Shape, ils as InlineShape
For Each sh In ActiveDocument.Shapes
sh.PictureFormat.ColorType = msoPictureGrayscale
Next sh
For Each ils In ActiveDocument.InlineShapes
ils.PictureFormat.ColorType = msoPictureGrayscale
Next ils

Thank you, both.
Max