Pattern problem, Publisher 2003

[Cork2]

I made a flyer, over that flyer i put a rectangle. I made that blue and
transparency to 90%. When i print it out there seems to be a pattern that
doesn't show up in publisher. Is that a printer related problem it never
seems to have done that before.

 

[Mary Sauer]

Publisher does not do well with transparency.
Right-click the rectangle, save as picture, use the .png format. Insert the
rectangle back into your publication.

 

[Cork2]

Thanks, but it saved it up without the fill and transparency. If i add those
would it work?

 

[Cork2]

Sorry for double post i couldn't find a edit option, anywho i added the
picture and then added the fill and transparency again and printed to pdf and
it is still happening. Well since publisher doesn't do well with that i may
have to make it without.

 

[Mary Sauer]

Cork2,
Right-click your transparent rectangle, click save as picture, select .png from
the list of formats. Insert the saved rectangle into your publication. This
method works, somehow you are confusing PDF with .png (Portable Network
Graphics).

A created transparency in Publisher will print what you call patterned
properties. This is why it is better to convert it to a bitmap.

 

[Cork2]

Sorry, i meant after i have done those changes i printed it to a pdf to see
if i was still getting the problem. I forgot to change the save as type to
png. Anywho who i tried it again and saved it but now it is covering up
everything in the flyer.

The reason i want the transparency on top of the flyer is so that it can
cover up the shadow in the pictures. I croped them a bit to remove most of
the shadow inside the picture but there is still some left. Setting
transparent color in the image didn't work it would only mess up the picture.
Thanks for trying to help me.

 

[Mary Sauer]

Do you have Acrobat? Is it enabled in Publisher on the toolbar? Expand the
Acrobat toolbar, click convert to Adobe PDF. It will preserve the transparency
using this method.

 

[Cork2]

Hmm thanks, that works. Wierd that it would do this when i print to pdf and
not when i convert it to pdf, both make it a pdf file. Thanks for the Help