Problems with gradation transparency in Publisher

[david at synapse design]

Anyone had problems when they come to print a text box with transparency
gradation from publisher either to a virtual printer to create PDF's or to a
desktop inkjet printer. It seems to lose transparency and revert to 100%
opaque.

 

[Ed Bennett]

Anyone had problems when they come to print a text box with transparency
gradation from publisher either to a virtual printer to create PDF's or to a
desktop inkjet printer. It seems to lose transparency and revert to 100%
opaque.

Yep, it's a problem more than 4½ years old (and was the subject of my
very first post in this newsgroup). A workaround in Publisher 2003 is to
create a 300dpi PNG image of each page (File > Save as... > Type = PNG)
and print that; however, that doesn't allow you to go to a terribly good
PDF. Publisher 2007 will export transparent gradients to PDF properly.

 

[Rob Giordano \(Crash\)]

It works but I got jaggies with the png on fonts (type created in vector
program as an image) then dropped into Pub2003...ended up just making the
vector image background the same as what I was using in Pub. It was totally
un-noticable until it was outputted to pdf.


| david at synapse design wrote:
| > Anyone had problems when they come to print a text box with transparency
| > gradation from publisher either to a virtual printer to create PDF's or
to a
| > desktop inkjet printer. It seems to lose transparency and revert to 100%
| > opaque.
|
| Yep, it's a problem more than 4½ years old (and was the subject of my
| very first post in this newsgroup). A workaround in Publisher 2003 is to
| create a 300dpi PNG image of each page (File > Save as... > Type = PNG)
| and print that; however, that doesn't allow you to go to a terribly good
| PDF. Publisher 2007 will export transparent gradients to PDF properly.
|
| --
| Ed Bennett - MVP Microsoft Publisher
| http://ed.mvps.org

 

[david at synapse design]

Thanks Guys. Much appreciated.
David