White graphic prints gray jsandstormer[ at ]gmail.com 07.08.2006 17:15:22 I maintain a document which includes over a hundred screen captures that include large areas of white space. I recently upgraded to Office 2003. I just printed this document for the first time since the upgrade, and discovered that all the white areas are printing light gray and look terrible. I found this article on Microsoft's site: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/908021/en-us?spid=2522&sid=72 Unfortunately the "solution" is to convert all of the graphics to another format and then re-insert them. Also, half of my screen captures were actually pasted directly from the clipboard, so there are no files to convert. I was supposed to create PDFs today and send them out to a printer, but we would be embarrassed to send out our manuals looking like this. Is there some other way around this? A patch or something? Is there a quick way to roll back to the previous version of Word? This is a significant problem for us. Thanks!

Re: White graphic prints gray "J." <jsandstormer[ at ]gmail.com> 07.08.2006 17:56:55 Just to clarify... looks like I am actually using Word 2002, so I'm not sure if I'm using a never version than before or not. And when I pasted screen captures in from the clipboard, I pasted them as bitmaps. (In retrospect, that may have been a bad idea!) However, most of the screen captures are not new... only this white-prints-as-light-gray thing is new.

Re: White graphic prints gray "Suzanne S. Barnhill" <sbarnhill[ at ]mvps.org> 07.08.2006 18:07:56 You might experiment with increasing the brightness just a bit. Test-print one graphic and see if that helps. If it does, you can either ask for a macro to apply the same setting to all the graphics or you can set your browse object to Graphic (if they're inline) and, after changing the setting in Format Picture for one graphic, click through all the rest with the browse buttons and F4 (repeat) on each one. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. <jsandstormer[ at ]gmail.com> wrote in message news:1154970922.034203.8370[ at ]p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com... [Quoted Text] > I maintain a document which includes over a hundred screen captures > that include large areas of white space. I recently upgraded to Office > 2003. I just printed this document for the first time since the > upgrade, and discovered that all the white areas are printing light > gray and look terrible. > > I found this article on Microsoft's site: > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/908021/en-us?spid=2522&sid=72 > > Unfortunately the "solution" is to convert all of the graphics to > another format and then re-insert them. Also, half of my screen > captures were actually pasted directly from the clipboard, so there are > no files to convert. > > I was supposed to create PDFs today and send them out to a printer, but > we would be embarrassed to send out our manuals looking like this. > > Is there some other way around this? A patch or something? > Is there a quick way to roll back to the previous version of Word? > > This is a significant problem for us. Thanks! >

Re: White graphic prints gray "Jezebel" <warcrimes[ at ]whitehouse.gov> 07.08.2006 22:43:29 And before you go very far, also check what it looks like in a PDF. Acrobat's handling of Word graphics is sometimes idiosyncratic. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" <sbarnhill[ at ]mvps.org> wrote in message news:O4TD0zkuGHA.2448[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... [Quoted Text] > You might experiment with increasing the brightness just a bit. Test-print > one graphic and see if that helps. If it does, you can either ask for a > macro to apply the same setting to all the graphics or you can set your > browse object to Graphic (if they're inline) and, after changing the > setting > in Format Picture for one graphic, click through all the rest with the > browse buttons and F4 (repeat) on each one. > > -- > Suzanne S. Barnhill > Microsoft MVP (Word) > Words into Type > Fairhope, Alabama USA > Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org > Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup > so > all may benefit. > > <jsandstormer[ at ]gmail.com> wrote in message > news:1154970922.034203.8370[ at ]p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com... >> I maintain a document which includes over a hundred screen captures >> that include large areas of white space. I recently upgraded to Office >> 2003. I just printed this document for the first time since the >> upgrade, and discovered that all the white areas are printing light >> gray and look terrible. >> >> I found this article on Microsoft's site: >> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/908021/en-us?spid=2522&sid=72 >> >> Unfortunately the "solution" is to convert all of the graphics to >> another format and then re-insert them. Also, half of my screen >> captures were actually pasted directly from the clipboard, so there are >> no files to convert. >> >> I was supposed to create PDFs today and send them out to a printer, but >> we would be embarrassed to send out our manuals looking like this. >> >> Is there some other way around this? A patch or something? >> Is there a quick way to roll back to the previous version of Word? >> >> This is a significant problem for us. Thanks! >> >

Re: White graphic prints gray "J." <jsandstormer[ at ]gmail.com> 08.08.2006 13:32:43 Jezebel wrote: [Quoted Text] > And before you go very far, also check what it looks like in a PDF. > Acrobat's handling of Word graphics is sometimes idiosyncratic. It looked the same in Acrobat as in Word (i.e. white), and printed the same in both (i.e. grey). This made me suspicious of my printer driver. I switched from a PCL driver to a PS driver, and my problem was solved! Thanks to both of you!