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It means the effects you make on images in Word do not translate into PDF's. You will need to paste your images into word with the transparency already applied to the picture.
Also, that things of this nature are fouled up in Word and other Microsoft products. An alternative is to save the document as a postscript file (using print) and open the ps file in Preview. This might work to preserve the transparencies.
M$ Word + PDF = very crappy output.
There's not much you can do about that, MS is good at *.doc and to a lesser extent *.rtf that is all, PDF has never been a Microsoft strong point just look at MS Publisher (I hear designers all over the world cringing).
Most of the problems with MS PDFs is that they are not fully translated (or supported by Word), it can happen with images, fonts, text layouts, etc, besides redoing the images there's not much you can do.
Unless you absoluting have to have MS Word do PDF I'd steer clear of Word documents saved as PDFs.
There's not much you can do about that, MS is good at *.doc and to a lesser extent *.rtf that is all, PDF has never been a Microsoft strong point just look at MS Publisher (I hear designers all over the world cringing).
Most of the problems with MS PDFs is that they are not fully translated (or supported by Word), it can happen with images, fonts, text layouts, etc, besides redoing the images there's not much you can do.
Unless you absoluting have to have MS Word do PDF I'd steer clear of Word documents saved as PDFs.
jon Gotty said:
Okay, then you did not try everything. To save as a Postscript file:
1-Print
2-In the Print dialog box, select the PDF menu, then select "Save PDF as Postscript..." You will now be prompted to save the Postscript (.ps) file.
3-Double-click on the Postscript file you just created, it will open in Preview. Check to see if the transparencies are preserved. If it works, the PDF can now be saved from Preview. If it doesn't, then the problem is with Word, and the only solution is to use something else.
nightelf said:
I don't know what you mean. Transparency means the ability to see through the image to something behind it.