Printing transparent text boxes over photos

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Bear Pair posted:
Hmmm... Interesting... would be nice to know up front that certain
aspects don't "work" as one would expect.
You are absolutely right: print preview works fine, (altho' didn't
with one item I tried in Publisher???), BUT when you print, it does
so as a solid block of gradient fill. Apparently sometimes in
Publisher, a transparent, gradient text box will showproperly in
print preview, sometimes as a solid block??? HOWEVER, there is a way
around this obstacle: If you save the item ( some combo of photo &
text box) as a "picture," i.e., .JPG or .GIF, then it DOES indeed
print as a transparent gradient fill. :-)

Yes, that is the advertised work around that we have supplied in the
newsgroup. Good catch btw.
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Brian Kvalheim
Microsoft Publisher MVP
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