publish to pdf

Using publisher 2007 I wanted to publish to pdf or save as a pdf. I had text
that is colored and when I did the convert the text came out in shades of
gray. Is there a setting I need to set so it will convert in color? All clip
art and photos were in color, only text was affected and most of the text was
done as a headline. Hope someone can tell me what I'm doing wrong.

Are you using the Microsoft save as PDF add-in? This has been an issue off and
on. Try a different converter. There are many free converters around,
www.primopdf.com is mentioned here.

--
Mary Sauer
http://msauer.mvps.org/

"Donald P" wrote in message
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Using publisher 2007 I wanted to publish to pdf or save as a pdf. I had text
that is colored and when I did the convert the text came out in shades of
gray. Is there a setting I need to set so it will convert in color? All clip
art and photos were in color, only text was affected and most of the text was
done as a headline. Hope someone can tell me what I'm doing wrong.

You must set a color printer as your default printer even if you don't
actually print to the color printer in order for the "Publish as PDF or
XPS..." plug-in to output colored text.

"Donald P" wrote:

Using publisher 2007 I wanted to publish to pdf or save as a pdf. I had text
that is colored and when I did the convert the text came out in shades of
gray. Is there a setting I need to set so it will convert in color? All clip
art and photos were in color, only text was affected and most of the text was
done as a headline. Hope someone can tell me what I'm doing wrong.

"Charles R" wrote in message
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You must set a color printer as your default printer even if you don't
actually print to the color printer in order for the "Publish as PDF or
XPS..." plug-in to output colored text.


Thanks for that tip.
I've had a color printer for years, & using Acrobat, so I never had any
trouble with color pdfs, but it never would have occurred to me that you
*had* to "use" a color printer to get a color pdf.

Since I'm sending copy to a printer for output in b/w, I make the pdf color
but print grayscale from the pdf to make sure I'll get the end product I'm
thinking of (or at least as close as I can get with my skill level,
particularly on graphics). I almost never have any color text anyway -- I
make even the web links black so they'll be easier to read when printed out
in grayscale.
bj