PDFcreator: no background color?

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Charles Gillen

Thanks to this NG I've been trying PDFcreator but noted if my Windows Word
doc has been given a background tint under the text, it is ignored when
"printed" to PDFcreator... have I missed something or does PDFcreator
always insist on a white brackground?

Otherwise, a very neat program well worth the download :^)
 
Charles said:
Thanks to this NG I've been trying PDFcreator but noted if my Windows Word
doc has been given a background tint under the text, it is ignored when
"printed" to PDFcreator... have I missed something or does PDFcreator
always insist on a white brackground?

Otherwise, a very neat program well worth the download :^)
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Convert your Word doc to HTML, then convert HTML to PDF with HTMLDOC.

http://users.tpg.com.au/naffall/htmldoc.html

With HTMLDOC you can choose a "body" color for your PDF re the "colors" tab.

Here is the manual:

http://www.htmldoc.org/htmldoc.pdf
 
Thanks to this NG I've been trying PDFcreator but noted if my Windows Word
doc has been given a background tint under the text, it is ignored when
"printed" to PDFcreator... have I missed something or does PDFcreator
always insist on a white brackground?

Otherwise, a very neat program well worth the download :^)
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This is handled in "Page Setup" (Firefox) of your browser. File-->Page
Setup-->Print Background (colors & images)

hth

Dud
 
Charles said:
Thanks to this NG I've been trying PDFcreator but noted if my Windows Word
doc has been given a background tint under the text, it is ignored when
"printed" to PDFcreator... have I missed something or does PDFcreator
always insist on a white brackground?

Otherwise, a very neat program well worth the download :^)
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Charles;

I don't know how to retain background color. Shows you how bland I am,
in all the time I'd used this proggy, I never thought of trying that.

I tried duddits' suggestion (for the Mozilla browser) and it does
work...for the first page. Subsequent has problems. Not sure what this
would mean for other proggies though.

PDFCreator peeps have a forum (sourceforge.net/forum/?group_id=57796).

Oh, and if you do find a solution, drop us a note eh?

-Craig
 
Craig said:
I tried duddits' suggestion (for the Mozilla browser) and it does
work...for the first page.
Oh, and if you do find a solution, drop us a note eh?
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Still new at all this, but when I PDFcreator "printed" from Firefox a single
HTML page that was the equivalent of several paper pages long, it was shown
as multiple pages in one PDF doc... but the background color was retained
throughout.

Appearance was improved by setting margins to zero and blanking all
header/footer entries... now looks more like a "real" PDF duplicate of the
original HTML page.
 
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