transparency

[Ben]

When I import a picture into a document and print this,
pcture resolution is ok.
When I change the transparency color (from white to
transparent) the picture will be printed in a low
resolution format.

Orignal format is in tiff (also tried gif)

Any idea's ?
I'm using pub2002

 

[Mike]

How do you know it's printing in Low Resolution? If it's just because the edges of things look
jagged, it's because you need to take care of the transparency in a different way.

Normally if you have somethign that looks like it has a white background and then some writing (or
something else) in a different color, the white doesn't just change to the other color instantly.
There's usually some color fading or greyness right where the two colors meet. THen when you set
the White to beTransparent, it ONLY changes the actual white and not the blended colors in between.

There's many ways to fix this but what I do is use Paint Shop Pro to set the background to a certain
color because it lets you choose a differentiation setting so that it will also change colors that
are Close to the white which means it gets the grey too.

Otherwise you can zoom way in on the picture and go aroudn the edges of things where there's the
blended colors and manually change them all to actual white. Then when you make White transparent
it will look better when you print.

Easiest way to see this is to change the White background to Black or BLue or something else and
then you will probably be able to see the grey/white blending around the border of whatever else is
in the picture.

 

[°°°M°S°°Publisher°°°]

Some graphic programs assume you are of low intellect, and what they do,
when you apply a transparency to a picture, the program automatically
assumes you are going to use in on the internet and reduces the DPI to
96dpi.

Check to see if your graphic program is doing this, and if it has an Option
to switch that feature off.
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[ben]

-----Original Message-----
Some graphic programs assume you are of low intellect, and what they do,
when you apply a transparency to a picture, the program automatically
assumes you are going to use in on the internet and reduces the DPI to
96dpi.

Check to see if your graphic program is doing this, and if it has an Option
to switch that feature off.

Thanks but I could not find a switch in publisher which
influence this.
Strangely enough it only shows when printing and not on
screen.

ben

 

[°°°M°S°°Publisher°°°]

Ben there is no switch in Publisher, the switch will be in your graphics
program.

Ben unless you are printing to a Postscript printer, you will not get a
proper printout using EPS. You will only get the TIF/TIFF preview that
prints out, NOT the EPS.

EPS and PostScript is a black art of the dark ages. Hopefully somebody will
bring out something decent and respectable to replace it. Trouble is it is
entrenched like Windows.

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[Ed Bennett]

Whilst attempting to develop brick-based storage technology, Ed reads a

Ben there is no switch in Publisher, the switch will be in your
graphics program.

Ben is talking about the transparency wand in Publisher 2002.