Microsoft KB Archive/117253

MacWorks:Transparent Objects Don’t Print Correctly on PostScript

PSS ID Number: Q117253 Article last modified on 10-22-1998

4.0

MACINTOSH

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Overlapping Draw objects may not print to a PostScript printer the way they display in Print Preview. This problem may occur if any of the Draw objects are formatted as Transparent. PostScript printers do not support transparent object formatting.

If you format a shape as transparent and layer it over another object, it will display as transparent in Print Preview, but will print as opaque when printed to a PostScript printer. In other words, any objects layered behind the transparent object will not appear on the printout.

This is a limitation of PostScript printing. Layered transparent objects print correctly on QuickDraw printers such as the StyleWriter and ImageWriter.

KBCategory: kbprint KBSubcategory: macworkskb

Additional reference words: 4.00 mac b&w see through post script multi- layered multilayered on top of each other background front over

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