Not printing graphics and text box colours or borders

Make sure that in Word | Preferences | Print---Include: "Drawing
Objects" is checked.

SimonG DeleteThis @officeformac.com wrote:
> I am using 2008 on a MacPro and when I try to print anything other
> regular text I get a blank. For example, I have put text boxes into
> the document and inserted a picture. Another text box inside the first
> one holds the text. This has a blue background and border but the
> colour and the picture fails to print. Another example I have three
> column table with arrows drawn from the left had column to the right
> hand one. The arrows do not print.
>
> In print preview the graphics are missing and the page is blank at
> that point. I am trying to print on an HP Laserjet 2605dn or Canon
> I4000 and using 10.5.1.
>
> Thank you very much for any help! I need to get this document printed
> by Wednesday for an MSc course I am doing.
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Hi, thank you for the reply.<br>
<br>
I've done that and it did not work. I've restarted Word and opened the document again (docx file) and still no good no pics or other drawing objects printed.<br>
<br>
Any other ideas please?!
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Hmmm....try printing to PDF--there are two methods--File | Save As |
Format and File | Print | PDF. Does either work?

But blank in Print Preview suggests this *is* a Word problem, rather
than a printer driver issue (which is more common).

I guess try the Corrupt Document fixes?
http://word.mvps.org/Mac/DocumentCorruption.html


SimonG DeleteThis @officeformac.com wrote:
> Hi, thank you for the reply.
>
> I've done that and it did not work. I've restarted Word and opened the
> document again (docx file) and still no good no pics or other drawing
> objects printed.
>
> Any other ideas please?!
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I have the same problem - even a simple line drawn in a header fails to appear on the printer (no problem on previous version!) and background colours vanish.

I have tried preview, no good. Pdf - no good. Pdf has no lines and no colours, so nothing to do with the printer. All on the word doc ok, but there it ends.

One trick for the absolutely desperate - Shift/Command + 4 and drag cursor over the page. That will copy it as a picture and immediately put it on your desktop You can then resave that as a pdf file. Quality is lost however.

HELP!!!! This is so unbelievably basic - to print a doc with drawn lines or inserted objects that I don't understand why these sites aren't teeming with disgruntled punters! I'm tearing my hair out too! Anyone????
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Hi Karen -

"Not teeming" because it isn't as widespread as you may think:-) Obviously
it's affecting 100% of *you* but globally it's an isolated issue. Only
certain Macs running particular combinations of Leopard/Office 2008/Printer
are seeing this and it's currently being addressed by Apple, MS & the
printer mfrs involved. When it will be *fixed* we don't know. Meanwhile:

http://word.mvps.org/Mac/Word2008Issues.html

Wish I could offer more, but that's about all we know.

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac



On 3/27/08 4:40 AM, in article ee8af36.4 DeleteThis @webcrossing.caR9absDaxw, "Karen
Matthews" wrote:

> I have the same problem - even a simple line drawn in a header fails to appear
> on the printer (no problem on previous version!) and background colours
> vanish.
>
> I have tried preview, no good. Pdf - no good. Pdf has no lines and no colours,
> so nothing to do with the printer. All on the word doc ok, but there it ends.
>
> One trick for the absolutely desperate - Shift/Command + 4 and drag cursor
> over the page. That will copy it as a picture and immediately put it on your
> desktop You can then resave that as a pdf file. Quality is lost however.
>
> HELP!!!! This is so unbelievably basic - to print a doc with drawn lines or
> inserted objects that I don't understand why these sites aren't teeming with
> disgruntled punters! I'm tearing my hair out too! Anyone????
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