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MS Office Forum / Publisher / General MS Publisher Questions / March 2008Transparency in text boxes not printing whne made a pdf
I have used Publisher for 7 or 8 years now and am in love with its simplicity as a page layout program. However, in my business I design booklets and in so doing I run across the transparency issue constantly. So I purchased Office Professional with Publisher 2007. I was sooooo hoping Publisher 2007 would resolve this issue... but it doesn’t seem to have been fixed unless there's a new tool or "get around" that I'm not aware of. I take photos and graphics and put a transparent text box over the photo. It adds a nice layer and allows you to still see the image underneath. It always shows up great on screen but when I save as a PDF the transparent text box shows up as an almost gridwork. I've tried going to edit/copy/paste special and have tried every file type: gif; jpeg; metafile; etc... but none of them when brought back into the document show up as transparent... they're all opaque. I've even tried saving the entire document as a jpg but the text in the document is all fuzzy and loses its clarity. The clarity of a pdf is far superior but the transparent text boxes in pdf are terrible. This is my living... my business... can you help??? I make these booklets and have to email them to the people who purchase them so jpg's or password protected pdfs are my best options... with pdf's clarity making it a no-brainer as to which I should be emailing. I thought for sure Publisher 2007 would fix this! What do I do? Please, please, please tell me there's something I'm doing wrong! Susan Brudnak WillowTree Marketing > I have used Publisher for 7 or 8 years now and am in love with its > simplicity as a page layout program. However, in my business I design [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > Susan Brudnak > WillowTree Marketing ==================================== This is interesting...I just tried several test .pdfs in Pub 2007 and the transparent text boxes are invisible. If I did it incorrectly...let me know and I will try something different. Saved as .pdf with the Publisher .pdf option Saved as .pdf with PrimoPDF Saved as .jpg and then saved as .pdf with Publisher Saved as .png and then saved as .pdf with Publisher They all look basically the same to me, and I don't see a hint of the textbox...it is totally transparent. I even opened all four and viewed them in succession and there is very little if any difference. I'll upload the samples to a site where you can download them and have a look. Please let me know how the samples compare to yours. Then...maybe we can figure out how to solve the issue. Here are the links for the .pdfs: Saved as .jpg and then saved as .pdf with Publisher http://download.yousendit.com/4A398D405D708BF0 Saved as .png and then saved as .pdf with Publisher http://download.yousendit.com/4979C2DA552A7EAC PUB file saved as .pdf with PrimoPDF http://download.yousendit.com/AB261F3860E18B61 PUB file saved as .pdf with Publisher .pdf option http://download.yousendit.com/29205B602E607B4E  SignatureJohn Inzer MS Picture It! - Digital Image MVP Digital Image Highlights and FAQs http://tinyurl.com/aczzp Notice This is not tech support I am a volunteer Solutions that work for me may not work for you Proceed at your own risk > I take photos and graphics and put a transparent text box over the photo. It > adds a nice layer and allows you to still see the image underneath. It always > shows up great on screen but when I save as a PDF the transparent text box > shows up as an almost gridwork. Are you using the Microsoft PDF add-in or some third-party PDF add-on? I just tested this with the Microsoft PDF add-in and it worked perfectly at all zoom levels. > I've tried going to edit/copy/paste special > and have tried every file type: gif; jpeg; metafile; etc... but none of them > when brought back into the document show up as transparent... they're all > opaque. The logic of that suggestion is that you save the entire page or the area of the page that has transparent objects on as an image, so when reimported it appears as if transparency if working even though there are only opaque objects there. > I've even tried saving the entire document as a jpg but the text in the > document is all fuzzy and loses its clarity. The clarity of a pdf is far > superior but the transparent text boxes in pdf are terrible. JPEG is a poor format for exporting documents containing text. A PNG file at Publisher's highest resolution will have no fuzz at edges. It will still not be as crisp (or as small a filesize) as a PDF though. SignatureEd Bennett - MVP Microsoft Publisher http://ed.mvps.org I used a rectangle, made it transparent, converted it to a .png, reinserted it into Publisher. When I printed to the AdobePDF (Adobe Acrobat 7) the transparency came up blank. When I did a "save as" a PDF, the transparency was intact and converted correctly. Go figure!!! SignatureMary Sauer MSFT MVP http://office.microsoft.com/ http://msauer.mvps.org/ news://msnews.microsoft.com >I have used Publisher for 7 or 8 years now and am in love with its simplicity > as a page layout program. However, in my business I design booklets and in so [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > Susan Brudnak > WillowTree Marketing > I used a rectangle, made it transparent, converted it to a .png, reinserted it > into Publisher. When I printed to the AdobePDF (Adobe Acrobat 7) the > transparency came up blank. When I did a "save as" a PDF, the transparency was > intact and converted correctly. Go figure!!! It's always been that way. Publisher can't print transparency, but can export it as a PDF (because Publisher's PDF export doesn't simply print to some hidden PDF printer). SignatureEd Bennett - MVP Microsoft Publisher http://ed.mvps.org Select your image and then click on the Picture toolbox or Format > Picture menu. The toolbox allows you to: (a) change the brightness. If you make the image brighter {add more light to the balance}, it may wash the image out a bit Or (b) change the colour. You have two options here -- select "washout" though this might make it too bright, or specify a degree of transparency. If these don't work, you may have to edit your photo / image within a photo editing program first, and then import it into Publisher. PAW > I have used Publisher for 7 or 8 years now and am in love with its simplicity > as a page layout program. However, in my business I design booklets and in so [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > Susan Brudnak > WillowTree Marketing HI again, Susienak I just realized that you want your text box, not the photos/images, to print transparent. Basically, the same colour and transparency tools are available to you with the font colouring commands as well. Go to Font > Colour > Fill Effects and take a look at the options there -- the options include gradient, transparency, tint, etc. and some of those alone or in combo might give you the look you want. PAW > I have used Publisher for 7 or 8 years now and am in love with its simplicity > as a page layout program. However, in my business I design booklets and in so [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > Susan Brudnak > WillowTree Marketing I, too, am having this problem and have come here to see if there is anyone who can help. Unfortunately, it seems that no one has really answered the issue. The issue is not so much with PUB (I'm running '07) but with Adobe. When I create my text box with 50% white transparent background, it shows up perfect in PUB. The problem is when I print to PDF (or "save as" PDF). The 50% white transparent background becomes riddled with gridmarks. Is there any way we might be able to figure this out? This too is my livelihood and I would love to find out if there is anything that can be done. Thanks! > I have used Publisher for 7 or 8 years now and am in love with its simplicity > as a page layout program. However, in my business I design booklets and in so [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > Susan Brudnak > WillowTree Marketing Select the text box, save as picture, you will want to save as a .png extension. Insert the picture back into your document. Use the "save as" PDF(Microsoft's Add-in) rather than print to PDF. You might want to create a transparent box rather than coloring the text box. You can send the box to the back. https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=4D951911-3E7E-4AE6-B05 9-A2E79ED87041&displaylang=en SignatureMary Sauer MSFT MVP http://office.microsoft.com/ http://msauer.mvps.org/ news://msnews.microsoft.com > I, too, am having this problem and have come here to see if there is anyone > who can help. Unfortunately, it seems that no one has really answered the [quoted text clipped - 37 lines] >> Susan Brudnak >> WillowTree Marketing Try here: http://tinyurl.com/33do3h > Select the text box, save as picture, you will want to save as a .png > extension. Insert the picture back into your document. Use the "save as" [quoted text clipped - 64 lines] >>> Susan Brudnak >>> WillowTree Marketing The transparency has nothing to do with Acrobat, it is something Publisher has struggled with since its onset. SignatureMary Sauer MSFT MVP http://office.microsoft.com/ http://msauer.mvps.org/ news://msnews.microsoft.com > Try here: http://tinyurl.com/33do3h >> Select the text box, save as picture, you will want to save as a .png [quoted text clipped - 52 lines] >>>> Susan Brudnak >>>> WillowTree Marketing
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