Color Inversion When Saving As Image - Word or Acrobat Problem ?

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Art - 17 Dec 2007 22:17 GMT

I have created a pdf file from from a Microsoft Word document via the OS
X Print dialog (Save as PDF). I then open the file in Acrobat and try to
save it off as an image file (.jpg for example).

If the page has mixed text and graphics, the resulting image file will
be rendered correctly. However, if the page has text-only (eg. black
text on white background), then the resulting image file will have the
colors inverted (white text on black background).

If I create a simple text-only file with a text editor (eg. BBEdit) and
save it as a pdf and use Acrobat to save it as an image file, I do not
see this problem.

In all cases, the pdf will render correctly when viewed in Acrobat or
Acrobat Reader.

Does anyone know what would cause this ?

MS Word 10.1.8
Acrobat 6.0.6 Standard
MacOS X 10.4.11

TIA.

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Regards,
Art

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John McGhie - 19 Dec 2007 15:56 GMT

Hi Art:

Yeah, that's a pretty standard "layering" problem caused by mismatches
between QuickDraw and Word X. The text and graphics are on two different
layers and 'something' flips the colours while sorting it out.

I suggest that you race off and buy the Office 2004 upgrade now (before
Office 2008 ships...)

That will give you a coupon that should give you Office 2008 for ten bucks
when it does ship (read the fine print very carefully, the offers vary by
location and by date...)

Hope this helps

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> Regards,
> Art

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Art - 19 Dec 2007 23:47 GMT

> Hi Art:
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>> Regards,
>> Art

John,
Thanks for the confirmation. So I take it this problem still exists in
Office-2004 ?

I did manage a "work-around" - I created a small blank .jpg file and
pasted it into the pages that have text only. It's not elegant, but it
beats having to post-process all the .jpg's :-).

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Art

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John McGhie - 31 Dec 2007 14:36 GMT

Hi Art:

Not "usually" :-) But since the answer is dependant on your versions of
several pieces of software that Microsoft doesn't make, it's hard to be
definitive. (Printer driver, graphics software, printing subsystem, etc)

Generally, you will "rarely" see this problem in Word 2004.

Cheers

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>> Hi Art:
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> Regards,
> Art

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