Background objects printing in front of foreground objects

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Hi there,

I have a strange problem that I can't seem to fix.

I have been given a publication to print that has page numbers inserted in
the background. I wanted to remove the numbers for the cover and inside
cover and so tried to place a text box with a fill over the top of it as
suggested in the help.

For some reason, the background page number is printing in front of the
foreground text box with fill, even though on screen you can't see the
background page number.

I've tried doing this in a new publication and it works as expected, so is
there a setting somewhere that is doing this, or has the file become
corrupted in some way?

Thanks for your help
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RE: Background objects printing in front of foreground objects by tobiwan

tobiwan
Tue Jul 08 06:58:00 CDT 2008

-------UPDATE--------

Ok I've found what was causing it. In my printer settings I had raster
instead of vector selected. Selecting Vector printing sorted the issue out,
but now I have a new one. When printing in vector, the publication gets as
far as page 4 of 28 and then errors and exits the program.

Any ideas what's going on?

Thanks again.
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Re: Background objects printing in front of foreground objects by Mary

Mary
Tue Jul 08 07:18:06 CDT 2008

Have you considered your printer driver maybe out of date?
Are you merging?
What is the error message? It would be helpful to know.

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"tobiwan" <tobiwan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:97DE365C-7B49-4E61-825E-3D33C0427D2D@microsoft.com...
> -------UPDATE--------
>
> Ok I've found what was causing it. In my printer settings I had raster
> instead of vector selected. Selecting Vector printing sorted the issue out,
> but now I have a new one. When printing in vector, the publication gets as
> far as page 4 of 28 and then errors and exits the program.
>
> Any ideas what's going on?
>
> Thanks again.


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Re: Background objects printing in front of foreground objects by tobiwan

tobiwan
Tue Jul 08 07:37:01 CDT 2008

It's not a merge. Printing to a Sharp MX3501N copier via ethernet. The
driver was updated by the Sharp guy about a week ago.

The error was a standard "The program mspub.exe has generated errors and
will close" type affair. No useful information.

I fixed the problem by lowering the DPI from 600 to 300 in the printer
setting box.

Not sure what's going on there..


"Mary Sauer" wrote:

> Have you considered your printer driver maybe out of date?
> Are you merging?
> What is the error message? It would be helpful to know.
>
> --
> Mary Sauer MSFT MVP
> http://office.microsoft.com/
> http://msauer.mvps.org/
> news://msnews.microsoft.com
>
> "tobiwan" <tobiwan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:97DE365C-7B49-4E61-825E-3D33C0427D2D@microsoft.com...
> > -------UPDATE--------
> >
> > Ok I've found what was causing it. In my printer settings I had raster
> > instead of vector selected. Selecting Vector printing sorted the issue out,
> > but now I have a new one. When printing in vector, the publication gets as
> > far as page 4 of 28 and then errors and exits the program.
> >
> > Any ideas what's going on?
> >
> > Thanks again.
>
>
>
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