I've put ///before my responses.
Steve Rindsberg said:
from PPT then copy from Notepad and paste back into PPT?
No I don't know how it was done ... but knowing the person (and know that
she doesn't pretend to know how powerpoint works) ...I would guess that she
simply did a copy/paste. Having said that, it's how I would have done it
..... on the first go-around.
So would anyone. It's the logical way to do it.
///Agreed.
I know about the pcl drivers, but in this environment, I don't think I can
convince them to install a pcl driver (although I'll keep trying). I've
been asking for them, because I can't get the transparent gradients to print
.... they print as "solid shapes" on the HP 4600
And on any other PS driver; the effect simply isn't supported in PS and MS
hasn't cobbled up a workaround for it. So that one's not HP's fault.
///The printers all seem to be installed from the server and access the
server on print.
Choosing "local" is greyed out ... the option is removed.
Locked down pretty tight here.
(and I'm thinking the pcl5c
should do the trick - unless PowerPoint really cannot print the dithered
colours. They look fine for video display, but not for print). The company
will not allow separate drivers on individual systems and it's most
frustrating. We just migrated to Office 2003 from '97 and I've been soooo
looking forward to being able to use the transparent gradients for various
effects but can't do it without those drivers.
This raises another question; is the driver installed on the local PC and
connected to
a network printer or is it installed on the network server?
PPT doesn't much like it when it doesn't have at least ONE locally installed
printer driver.
In any case, maybe you can persuade the IT folk to install the driver
temporarily, even if only on a test PC.
///I'm working on it.
PowerPoint and PS have a long-term hate-hateevenmore relationship,
unfortunately.
It's always best to have another alternative.
///Well ... there certainly seems to be a conflict between Acrobat and MS
office.
Perhaps you've seen the postings or experienced the problem where the
Acrobat toolbar
disappears from Word and Excel (and perhaps other components) on a regular
basis.
I continually have to reinstall Acrobat regularly to overcome this problem,
even with
the latest version of Acrobat (7). I've read that this particular problem
lies with
Adobe, but don't know if that's true.
Hm. I wonder .... do you also have Microsoft Office Document Imaging (MODI)
installed? Might want to have a play with that. Print to it then from it
to your printer.
///I do have it ... just checked. I did a test in powerpoint, where I
filled a box with too colours and
made one of the colours transparent and printed to it (MODI), but both
colours display on the screen
when the MODI window opens (only one should show) and both printed ...
boooooooo
one you want.
Yes ... have done that (no brainer for me ... but my note above explains why
this isn't an option "yet"... however, I will continue to work on them
little by little ----- maybe someday!).That's ok if the content isn't constantly changing. Only two of us (me
included) have Acrobat for this
purpose. It's not a bad last-ditch alternative to keep in mind.