Text zone background won't print on Distiller

[Raphael Goubet]

Hi,

Whenever I print a slideshow on either Distiller or PDFWriter, the
background color (with 80% transparency) of text boxes won't print.

If I push the resolution high enough on Distiller, with Print
conversion settings, I'll get a heavily pixelized background.

What's the problem?

Thanks in advance.

Raphael

 

[Ute Simon]

Whenever I print a slideshow on either Distiller or PDFWriter, the

background color (with 80% transparency) of text boxes won't print.

If I push the resolution high enough on Distiller, with Print
conversion settings, I'll get a heavily pixelized background.

Hi Raphael,

many printers, and Distiller IS a printer with which you print to a file,
have problems with transparency. Can you use a solid color of the same
shade?

Kind regards,
Ute

 

[Raphael Goubet]

Hi

Thank you and Ute for these explanations. I hoped transparency was
managed like tints in desktop publishing software (i.e., same color
with more white pigments).

I tried to find the color that best matches the "tint" I wanted, and
now it prints fine indeed. Hopefully, Microsoft will come up with a
better handling of transparency in the future. They *must* do it
correctly in Publisher, though I never tried there.

Thanks again.

Raphael

 

[Raphael Goubet]

Ah, or there are several little eyedropper utilities that'd let you sample the
color from within PowerPoint. Naturally, I can't remember the names. Sonia,
Echo, Help?

That would be Color Cop, for instance.

Thanks for the tip.

Raphael

 

[Sonia]

And my favorite, just because I've used it forever, is Eyedropper.
http://eyedropper.inetia.com/ Click on "English version" at right if you don't
speak Slovenian.
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Sonia Coleman
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials
http://www.soniacoleman.com