Microsoft KB Archive/179103

= PUB: Single-Color Graphics Image May Be Lighter After You Recolor It =

Article ID: 179103

Article Last Modified on 11/13/2003

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Publisher 2002 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Publisher 2000 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Publisher 98 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q179103



SYMPTOMS
If you recolor a picture that contains only one color, the result may be lighter than you expect. For example, if you have a graphic that is light yellow, and you try to recolor it to black, the graphic turns gray.



CAUSE
When you recolor a picture, Publisher converts the image to grayscale and then maps that grayscale onto the color that you choose. If your single- color picture is not black to begin with, it is converted to a shade of gray; that gray is in turn converted to a tint of the color you want.



RESOLUTION
NOTE: The following procedure works only with vector-based images such as Computer Graphics Metafile (.cgm) or Windows Metafile (.wmf) graphics. It does not work with bitmap or paint-type images such as Tagged Image File format (.tif) or Windows Bitmap (.bmp) graphics. However, it is extremely rare to find single-color, bitmap-type graphics that aren't black.

You can use Microsoft Draw 98 to change the color of a single-color image to black. You can then recolor it and achieve the expected results.
 * 1) In Publisher, select the picture. On the Edit menu, click Cut.
 * 2) On the Insert menu, click Object. In the list of object types, click Microsoft Draw 98 Drawing.
 * 3) On the Edit menu, click Paste. Your picture will appear in Microsoft Draw 98.
 * 4) On the Fill palette at the bottom of the screen, click the black color swatch. The fill color of your graphic will change to black.

The picture will appear in your publication with an all-black fill that you can recolor.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

Additional query words: TIFF PCX GIFF WMF HGL lighter watermark pub98 recolor 5.0 mspub pub5 publisher98 kbprepress prepress PUB2000 PUB2002

Keywords: kbprb kbgraphic KB179103

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