PUB98: Pattern-Filled Objects Print Badly When Pasted as Picture (178807)
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This article was previously published under Q178807 SYMPTOMS
If you copy a Publisher drawing object that has a pattern fill and then
paste it as a picture, the pattern fill will print incorrectly to 300 dpi
or higher resolution printers.
CAUSE
Publisher patterns are made of bitmap tiles. When you print these tiles to
a 300 dpi or higher resolution printer, Publisher automatically increases
the size of these tiles to make them print well at high resolutions. If you
paste a Publisher object as a picture, Publisher does not know what kind of
fills are in that picture and therefore cannot scale the tiles when the
object is printed.
NOTE: If you copy a WordArt frame and paste it as a picture, WordArt puts
special comments in the picture to tell Publisher what kind of fill patterns it
contains. Therefore, Publisher can correctly scale the tiles when it prints
this type of object.
STATUS
Microsoft is researching this problem and will post new information here in
the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.
| Modification Type: | Major | Last Reviewed: | 11/10/1999 |
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| Keywords: | kbprb KB178807 |
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