Problems with printing transparency

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Dark Rubes

I design a publication using Publisher 2007, and I have been trying without
success to print graphics with transparency.

My problem is this: I have saved my graphic as PNG-8, PNG-24 and GIFs to
knockout said white background. They show up fine on screen when I'm
designing but once I print using CutePDF, the white background is still
there. I've tried using the transparency tool on the picture toolbar as well
and cannot get it to print without the background. I've also tried using the
"Publish as PDF or XPS option" but it seems to make it worse by adding white
backgrounds on things that shouldn't have it (i.e. a text box).

Please help!
 
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Dark Rubes

An addendum: The workaround I discovered after two hours of work is to save
everything on the page as one picture, then re-import as a picture and print
as a PDF. Works beautifully, but it adds an extra step. I have discovered in
my research that this isn't Publisher causing the problem but more of a
Postscript problem. As a newspaper designer I'm used to just breezing on
through with Quark and not having this problem so I find it interesting that
Adobe is the one at fault here.

Any other suggestions?
 

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