Article ID: 136292
Article Last Modified on 8/17/2005
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Publisher 3.0 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q136292
SYMPTOMS
If you copy a Publisher drawing object that has a pattern fill and then paste it as a picture, the pattern fill will print incorrectly to 300 dpi or higher resolution printers.
CAUSE
Publisher patterns are made of bitmap tiles. When you print these tiles to a 300 dpi or higher resolution printer, Publisher automatically increases the size of these tiles to make them print well at high resolutions. If you paste a Publisher object as a picture, Publisher does not know what kind of fills are in that picture and therefore can't scale the tiles when the object is printed.
NOTE: If you copy a Word Art frame and paste it as a picture, WordArt puts special comments in the picture to tell what kind of fill patterns it contains. Therefore, Publisher can correctly scale the tiles when it prints this type of object.
STATUS
Microsoft is researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.
Additional query words: pub95 mspub w_mspub wordart tiny fine stripes striped hatched crosshatched cross-hatch dots weave basket brush pub97
Keywords: kbprint kbprb KB136292
