Microsoft KB Archive/68558

Text on Handouts Page Print on LaserJet When in Slide Area PSS ID Number: Q68558 Article last modified on 10-29-1991 PSS database name: W_PowerPt

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Summary:

If text is entered on the handouts page where a slide image will appear when printed, the text will be printed along with the slide image, obscuring part of the picture of the slide. This will only happen when the handouts page is printed to a Hewlett-Packard (HP) LaserJet printer. Any graphics entered on the handouts page in the slide image area will not print.

More Information:

The desired result on the handouts page is that the slide image will supersede any text or graphic that was applied directly to the handouts page in the slide image area.

This problem is due to a limitation of the PCL language. As a result, the problem will occur on any printer that is a member of the HP LaserJet family, or that uses the PCL printer driver in an emulation mode. The handouts page should print correctly to non-LaserJet printers. Also, if the font used is a vector font, this problem will not occur even on the LaserJet because vector fonts are printed as graphics.

Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1991.