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Don't know where else to go with this so I'll try one more time...

I have a 10-page newsletter with embedded Word documents on pages 3, 7 and
9. Page 3, with two embedded Word tables, will not print correctly to
PostScript. What happens is that the second table, which is at the bottom of
the page, moves up to the middle of the page, flush left with the page edge.
I tried putting the table in a frame, but then the table doesn't print at
all.

There is one embedded table on page 9. This table gets relocated when
printed ONLY when the page is printed at the same time as the previous page
(which has large graphics but no OLE objects) -- when the page is printed
alone or along with page 10 then the table prints in the correct position.
When I try to print page 9 along with the previous 2 pages I get a typecheck
error from 'setcolor'.

No apparent problems with the table on page 7.

At first I thought this was a distiller problem, but it occurs with PS
output to printers, too.

I installed the latest PS driver from Adobe when I upgraded from Win98 to
Win2K (I never installed the v.4.11 PS driver from the CD).

I have 'maximum' memory freed for graphics in PostScript options.

No problem printing to a non-PS printer.

Any idea what could be causing these problems and what needs to be done to
overcome them? Is this something PM 7 is supposed to fix?

I tried the InDesign 2.0 eval, but it doesn't do OLE and does a lousy job of
importing my Word tables.

Thanks for any enlightenment,

nf

This is a WAG --

Quote:> Don't know where else to go with this so I'll try one more time...

> I have a 10-page newsletter with embedded Word documents on pages 3, 7 and
> 9. Page 3, with two embedded Word tables, will not print correctly to
> PostScript. What happens is that the second table, which is at the bottom
of
> the page, moves up to the middle of the page, flush left with the page
edge.
> I tried putting the table in a frame, but then the table doesn't print at
> all.

> There is one embedded table on page 9. This table gets relocated when
> printed ONLY when the page is printed at the same time as the previous
page
> (which has large graphics but no OLE objects) -- when the page is printed
> alone or along with page 10 then the table prints in the correct position.
> When I try to print page 9 along with the previous 2 pages I get a
typecheck
> error from 'setcolor'.

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> nf

I wonder if some RGB has sneaked into your document? Check the color
attributes of those Word files! Having RGB in a document I was printing as a
PDF created some very strange results for me!

Can you export the Word tables as EPS, or print them as .prn files and
distill them separately, then place the PDFs? I realize you lose the ability
to edit them by doing this but if you gain the ability to *print* them, the
trade-off may be worth it!

Peggy

Quote:> This is a WAG --

What's a WAG?

Quote:> Can you export the Word tables as EPS, or print them as .prn files and
> distill them separately, then place the PDFs?

I tried printing PS from Word and distilling to PDF but PM wouldn't place
the resulting PDF. I noticed, though, that there was a warning that the file
contained CIE color and needed special separations (or something like that).
So I recreated the PDF with the color options unchecked and color conversion
set to 'unchanged'. Lo and behold, this worked.

I then converted all other Word tables to PDF. However, I still could not
distill the entire document as one PDF. I finally found that one of those
'big graphics' was an imported CorelDRAW! object. With that converted, the
entire newsletter distilled to PDF.

The problem does seem to be related to color and maybe there's a way to get
the OLE objects to work (as they did in Win98). But at least I can now put
together a revision of the newsletter that Sir Speedy can print without
manually re-creating some very complex tables in PM. Whoopee!

Thanks much for the tip, Peggy.

nf

Another success story! --

WAG = Wild Ass Guess (http://www.netlingo.com/emailsh.cfm)

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Quote:

> I then converted all other Word tables to PDF. However, I still could not
> distill the entire document as one PDF. I finally found that one of those
> 'big graphics' was an imported CorelDRAW! object. With that converted, the
> entire newsletter distilled to PDF.

> The problem does seem to be related to color and maybe there's a way to
get
> the OLE objects to work (as they did in Win98). But at least I can now put
> together a revision of the newsletter that Sir Speedy can print without
> manually re-creating some very complex tables in PM. Whoopee!

> Thanks much for the tip, Peggy.

> nf

You're welcome! I've given up trying to use any sort of MS Office product in
a Pagemaker file. I know people do it, I know it can be done, but I have
better uses for my time. PDF saves my bacon on a regular basis!

Peggy

On Mon, 11 Mar 2002 07:33:51 GMT, "nutso fasst"

Ng,

Quote:>Don't know where else to go with this so I'll try one more time...

>I have a 10-page newsletter with embedded Word documents on pages 3, 7 and
>9. Page 3, with two embedded Word tables, will not print correctly to
>PostScript. What happens is that the second table, which is at the bottom of
>the page, moves up to the middle of the page, flush left with the page edge.

I have a similar printing-problem using tables, created in Table3.0,
in a PM5.52 document.

Quote:>I tried putting the table in a frame, but then the table doesn't print at
>all.

When I want to print to a postscript-file, it gives a memory-read
error.
Memory however should be sufficient.

Quote:

>There is one embedded table on page 9. This table gets relocated when
>printed ONLY when the page is printed at the same time as the previous page
>(which has large graphics but no OLE objects) -- when the page is printed
>alone or along with page 10 then the table prints in the correct position.
>When I try to print page 9 along with the previous 2 pages I get a typecheck
>error from 'setcolor'.

>No apparent problems with the table on page 7.

>At first I thought this was a distiller problem, but it occurs with PS
>output to printers, too.

>I installed the latest PS driver from Adobe when I upgraded from Win98 to
>Win2K (I never installed the v.4.11 PS driver from the CD).

>I have 'maximum' memory freed for graphics in PostScript options.

>No problem printing to a non-PS printer.

>Any idea what could be causing these problems and what needs to be done to
>overcome them? Is this something PM 7 is supposed to fix?

>I tried the InDesign 2.0 eval, but it doesn't do OLE and does a lousy job of
>importing my Word tables.

>Thanks for any enlightenment,

>nf

solution ?
thanx