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EPS Picture Appears Transparent on PCL Printers

Article ID: 133085

Article Last Modified on 8/16/2005

Microsoft PowerPoint 95 Standard Edition

This article was previously published under Q133085

SYMPTOMS

When you print an Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) graphic from PowerPoint 7.0 for Windows 95 to a black-and-white PCL printer, parts or all of the EPS graphic may appear to be transparent.

A PCL printer is a printer that uses the Hewlett-Packard Printer Control Language. PCL printers include all HP LaserJet printers and LaserJet- compatible printers.

CAUSE

This is a bug in PCL banding printer drivers. The drivers do not preserve the z-order, or "layering" of the objects in the EPS file, which in turn causes them to appear as transparent.

NOTE: EPS graphics are designed to print well to printers that use the PostScript page description language and not to printers that use other printer languages.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in PowerPoint version 7.0 for Windows 95. We are researching this problem and will post new information here as it becomes available.

WORKAROUND

Convert the EPS graphic to another one of the supported graphic file formats that PowerPoint is able to use, and then import the new version of the graphic to your presentation. Many commercially available graphics and drawing software packages can convert EPS graphics to other file formats.

Additional query words: 7.00 ppt95 WIN95 LaserJet II Plus III IIIsi IIIp 4 4m 4mplus 4mvplus 5m 4si

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