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May 4th, 2004, 01:24 AM
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printing problems with corel art in ms pub 2003
I had been generating a small publication using MS Pub
2000 and it included some line art pasted in from Corel. (MS Pub identifies Corel 8). After I migrated to Pub 2003, this graphic prints very differently (before the lines were thick, now they are very thin almost invisible). I have tried saving in different formats but the image quality is poor (vector to bitmap?). I have also experimented with all the Format object settings but no luck although there may be some combo I did not try (printed a lot of paper) since it looks fine on the screen. Any clues on why the difference or other options to get the lines to be bolder? I am using the latest printer driver. Al 
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May 4th, 2004, 03:15 AM
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printing problems with corel art in ms pub 2003
Since upgrading to Pub 2003, have you updated your printer drivers?
Microsoft Office Publisher 2003 and older are critical about printer drivers. Usually upgrading (or downgrading in some cases) will fix the problems you are encountering. If you have not already done so, you would want to visit the manufacturer's website of your printer to download and install the latest printer driver that is available. It's important to note that the CD-Rom that came with your printer will most likely NOT have the most recent driver for your printer. (Yes, I'm quoting Brian.) -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] "Al" wrote in message ... I had been generating a small publication using MS Pub 2000 and it included some line art pasted in from Corel. (MS Pub identifies Corel 8). After I migrated to Pub 2003, this graphic prints very differently (before the lines were thick, now they are very thin almost invisible). I have tried saving in different formats but the image quality is poor (vector to bitmap?). I have also experimented with all the Format object settings but no luck although there may be some combo I did not try (printed a lot of paper) since it looks fine on the screen. Any clues on why the difference or other options to get the lines to be bolder? I am using the latest printer driver. Al
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May 4th, 2004, 09:29 AM
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printing problems with corel art in ms pub 2003
Have you tried saving the image in .wmf? I have Corel, some created images will have
thin lines, especially when copied and pasted. Actually Publisher 2003 does a far superior job pasting Corel images than any Publisher version. -- Mary Sauer MS MVP http://office.microsoft.com/ http://www.mvps.org/msauer/ news://msnews.microsoft.com "Al" wrote in message ... I had been generating a small publication using MS Pub 2000 and it included some line art pasted in from Corel. (MS Pub identifies Corel 8). After I migrated to Pub 2003, this graphic prints very differently (before the lines were thick, now they are very thin almost invisible). I have tried saving in different formats but the image quality is poor (vector to bitmap?). I have also experimented with all the Format object settings but no luck although there may be some combo I did not try (printed a lot of paper) since it looks fine on the screen. Any clues on why the difference or other options to get the lines to be bolder? I am using the latest printer driver. Al
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May 4th, 2004, 11:59 PM
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printing problems with corel art in ms pub 2003
I could scan an existing printed copy and then use thato.
I did try wmf but the image was jagged. It seems to lose something in the copy/paste action. The image convert function does not provide any options. Al -----Original Message----- Have you tried saving the image in .wmf? I have Corel, some created images will have thin lines, especially when copied and pasted. Actually Publisher 2003 does a far superior job pasting Corel images than any Publisher version. -- Mary Sauer MS MVP http://office.microsoft.com/ http://www.mvps.org/msauer/ news://msnews.microsoft.com "Al" wrote in message ... I had been generating a small publication using MS Pub 2000 and it included some line art pasted in from Corel. (MS Pub identifies Corel 8). After I migrated to Pub 2003, this graphic prints very differently (before the lines were thick, now they are very thin almost invisible). I have tried saving in different formats but the image quality is poor (vector to bitmap?). I have also experimented with all the Format object settings but no luck although there may be some combo I did not try (printed a lot of paper) since it looks fine on the screen. Any clues on why the difference or other options to get the lines to be bolder? I am using the latest printer driver. Al .
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May 5th, 2004, 09:11 AM
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printing problems with corel art in ms pub 2003
Scanning creates bitmaps. If you have a vector based image in Corel, it can be
converted to a .wmf. The only other way would be to open the Corel trace and try creating a vector that way. Due to the many nodes tracing creates, it will not be very satisfactory, however line art works reasonably well. I am not understanding your problem. Can you not give the lines in Corel a different weight? If they are too thin, changing the weight should solve the problem. If the image is a true vector you can ungroup it in Publisher and change the line weight within the program. -- Mary Sauer MS MVP http://office.microsoft.com/ http://www.mvps.org/msauer/ news://msnews.microsoft.com "Al" wrote in message ... I could scan an existing printed copy and then use thato. I did try wmf but the image was jagged. It seems to lose something in the copy/paste action. The image convert function does not provide any options. Al -----Original Message----- Have you tried saving the image in .wmf? I have Corel, some created images will have thin lines, especially when copied and pasted. Actually Publisher 2003 does a far superior job pasting Corel images than any Publisher version. -- Mary Sauer MS MVP http://office.microsoft.com/ http://www.mvps.org/msauer/ news://msnews.microsoft.com "Al" wrote in message ... I had been generating a small publication using MS Pub 2000 and it included some line art pasted in from Corel. (MS Pub identifies Corel 8). After I migrated to Pub 2003, this graphic prints very differently (before the lines were thick, now they are very thin almost invisible). I have tried saving in different formats but the image quality is poor (vector to bitmap?). I have also experimented with all the Format object settings but no luck although there may be some combo I did not try (printed a lot of paper) since it looks fine on the screen. Any clues on why the difference or other options to get the lines to be bolder? I am using the latest printer driver. Al .
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May 5th, 2004, 09:24 AM
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printing problems with corel art in ms pub 2003
Another suggestion:
If your image looks good on the screen, use Corel capture and paste it in Publisher. -- Mary Sauer MS MVP http://office.microsoft.com/ http://www.mvps.org/msauer/ news://msnews.microsoft.com "Al" wrote in message ... I could scan an existing printed copy and then use thato. I did try wmf but the image was jagged. It seems to lose something in the copy/paste action. The image convert function does not provide any options. Al -----Original Message----- Have you tried saving the image in .wmf? I have Corel, some created images will have thin lines, especially when copied and pasted. Actually Publisher 2003 does a far superior job pasting Corel images than any Publisher version. -- Mary Sauer MS MVP http://office.microsoft.com/ http://www.mvps.org/msauer/ news://msnews.microsoft.com "Al" wrote in message ... I had been generating a small publication using MS Pub 2000 and it included some line art pasted in from Corel. (MS Pub identifies Corel 8). After I migrated to Pub 2003, this graphic prints very differently (before the lines were thick, now they are very thin almost invisible). I have tried saving in different formats but the image quality is poor (vector to bitmap?). I have also experimented with all the Format object settings but no luck although there may be some combo I did not try (printed a lot of paper) since it looks fine on the screen. Any clues on why the difference or other options to get the lines to be bolder? I am using the latest printer driver. Al .
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#7
May 5th, 2004, 04:59 PM
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printing problems with corel art in ms pub 2003
A small child turns to Ed, and exclaims: "Look! Look! A post from Mary
Sauer !"... The only other way would be to open the Corel trace and try creating a vector that way. Or trace it manually. Or hire someone else to trace it manually I can do a better job than CorelTrace on most images (provided the original is of a satisfactory resolution) -- Ed Bennett - MVP Microsoft Publisher http://www.mvps.org/the_nerd/ Before reading this message, view the disclaimer: http://mvps.org/the_nerd/disclaim.htm
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May 6th, 2004, 12:22 AM
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printing problems with corel art in ms pub 2003
copy and paste between different applications does tend to wonk the image;
under Windows, eventually they land (as I understand it) as a flavor of WMF but the conversion isn't always pretty. If you have a postscript printer, export as eps. if not, try both emf and wmf (emf should work better).. "Al" wrote in message ... I could scan an existing printed copy and then use thato. I did try wmf but the image was jagged. It seems to lose something in the copy/paste action. The image convert function does not provide any options. Al -----Original Message----- Have you tried saving the image in .wmf? I have Corel, some created images will have thin lines, especially when copied and pasted. Actually Publisher 2003 does a far superior job pasting Corel images than any Publisher version. -- Mary Sauer MS MVP http://office.microsoft.com/ http://www.mvps.org/msauer/ news://msnews.microsoft.com "Al" wrote in message ... I had been generating a small publication using MS Pub 2000 and it included some line art pasted in from Corel. (MS Pub identifies Corel 8). After I migrated to Pub 2003, this graphic prints very differently (before the lines were thick, now they are very thin almost invisible). I have tried saving in different formats but the image quality is poor (vector to bitmap?). I have also experimented with all the Format object settings but no luck although there may be some combo I did not try (printed a lot of paper) since it looks fine on the screen. Any clues on why the difference or other options to get the lines to be bolder? I am using the latest printer driver. Al .
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May 6th, 2004, 12:24 AM
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printing problems with corel art in ms pub 2003
forgot to add..
export as eps from Draw, BUT in the export dilogs you can tell it to use a WMF header instead of tiff. then if you don't have a Postscript pritner, the wmf header will be sent to the prijter and it *might* be better looking than what you now get. (or might not!).
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May 6th, 2004, 01:44 AM
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printing problems with corel art in ms pub 2003
I do not have Corel so I cannot modify the image natively.
The graphic was in wordperfect file I was given when I took over making the newsletter. I copy from the file (opened in Lotus WordPro since Word would declare the file corrupt) and then pasted in MS Pub 2000. It printed fine. When I migrated to MS PUB 2003, the image lines are very faint. I did convert from original file to several file types but the quality is poor. Al -----Original Message----- Scanning creates bitmaps. If you have a vector based image in Corel, it can be converted to a .wmf. The only other way would be to open the Corel trace and try creating a vector that way. Due to the many nodes tracing creates, it will not be very satisfactory, however line art works reasonably well. I am not understanding your problem. Can you not give the lines in Corel a different weight? If they are too thin, changing the weight should solve the problem. If the image is a true vector you can ungroup it in Publisher and change the line weight within the program. -- Mary Sauer MS MVP http://office.microsoft.com/ http://www.mvps.org/msauer/ news://msnews.microsoft.com "Al" wrote in message ... I could scan an existing printed copy and then use thato. I did try wmf but the image was jagged. It seems to lose something in the copy/paste action. The image convert function does not provide any options. Al -----Original Message----- Have you tried saving the image in .wmf? I have Corel, some created images will have thin lines, especially when copied and pasted. Actually Publisher 2003 does a far superior job pasting Corel images than any Publisher version. -- Mary Sauer MS MVP http://office.microsoft.com/ http://www.mvps.org/msauer/ news://msnews.microsoft.com "Al" wrote in message ... I had been generating a small publication using MS Pub 2000 and it included some line art pasted in from Corel. (MS Pub identifies Corel 8). After I migrated to Pub 2003, this graphic prints very differently (before the lines were thick, now they are very thin almost invisible). I have tried saving in different formats but the image quality is poor (vector to bitmap?). I have also experimented with all the Format object settings but no luck although there may be some combo I did not try (printed a lot of paper) since it looks fine on the screen. Any clues on why the difference or other options to get the lines to be bolder? I am using the latest printer driver. Al . .
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