Publisher word art transparency

[sdipietro]

I have a user who is using Publisher 2002 SP3. She has a postcard and uses
WordArt and has set the text in the WordArt to be transparent so the image
beneath the wordart can be seen. Everything appears the way she wants it,
but when it prints the text has no transparency at all. She is printing to a
Ricoh Aficio CL7000 using the RPCS driver. Is there someplace else she
should check to make the text transparent, or is this an issue with the print
driver. I have not tried using a PCL driver on it, but I have tried printing
to an HP 4050 that uses the PCL driver and received the same output

 

[Mary Sauer]

Although this article does not address WordArt, the issue is the same.
Overlapping transparent AutoShapes do not print as expected in Office XP programs
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;841352

 

[sdipietro]

Thanks for the quick response. The article workaround does exactly what was
needed.

 

[Mary Sauer]

Thanks for the feedback.. Others will benefit.