On Thu, 26 Jul 2001 Jacqueline Landman Gay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am using a simple "print this card" command to get a printout of a
> card comprised of several text fields. Some of the text comes out
> looking "overprinted" -- that is, within a rectangular area near the
> center of the card it looks like the text was printed twice, the second
> time with a 1-pixel offset. That part of the text looks blurry and bold,
> and is illegible. The double printing within this imaginary rectangle
> isn't related to any of the field rects, hidden or otherwise, and can
> start anywhere, even at the center of a character in a line of text.
> This happens whether formatForPrinting is set to true or false. The font
> is Times 12, which is installed on the Mac. Printcolors is set to false
> to avoid the gray background problem. The problem occurs in tests using
> three different print drivers.
>
> Has anyone seen this before, and what causes it?
Most likely a transparent image overlaps the text. In order to get
the background color/pattern of these things right when printing
(printing of transparent images isn't supported by the printer drivers
on any platform), it actually takes a snapshot of the rect on screen.
If any text is in that rect, it's grabbed at screen resolution. But
then that text will be drawn again at printer resolution, hence the
"double exposure" effect.
The best workaround is just to not use transparent images on stuff you
will be printing. If you have to allow for them, you could hide the
objects with text, do your own "import snapshot from rect" to grab an
opaque image, delete or hide the original, then show the text objects
again before printing.
Regards,
Scott
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> HyperActive Software | 612-724-1596
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