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When I insert a background into a publication, it is tiling instead of just
one picture. This wasn't happening before and I need to know how to change whatever setting got changed for this. |
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When you use Format, *background*, the background will tile. The only way to
overcome this is to put an image on the master page and size it to fit. It has always been this way. -- Mary Sauer MSFT MVP http://office.microsoft.com/ http://msauer.mvps.org/ news://msnews.microsoft.com "Heidi" wrote in message ... When I insert a background into a publication, it is tiling instead of just one picture. This wasn't happening before and I need to know how to change whatever setting got changed for this. |
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I had created a publication a few days ago, when I inserted my pic for the
background, it was just one pic that covered the page. When I went to change it to a different pic, it tiled. When I tried to re-use the original pic, it tiled. I've tried resizing pics, but they are too distorted for printing. After reading thru these posts I see that the default is for it to tile the background. I (and another in my office) can't figure out why we were able to do it without it tiling in the past. There is no option to change this default? I assumed I had done something to change a setting in Publisher because it was doing as I wanted to before....... "Mary Sauer" wrote: When you use Format, *background*, the background will tile. The only way to overcome this is to put an image on the master page and size it to fit. It has always been this way. -- Mary Sauer MSFT MVP http://office.microsoft.com/ http://msauer.mvps.org/ news://msnews.microsoft.com "Heidi" wrote in message ... When I insert a background into a publication, it is tiling instead of just one picture. This wasn't happening before and I need to know how to change whatever setting got changed for this. |
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Heidi, It very well could have been the size of the image, it could have been
too big to tile. -- Mary Sauer MSFT MVP http://office.microsoft.com/ http://msauer.mvps.org/ news://msnews.microsoft.com "Heidi" wrote in message ... I had created a publication a few days ago, when I inserted my pic for the background, it was just one pic that covered the page. When I went to change it to a different pic, it tiled. When I tried to re-use the original pic, it tiled. I've tried resizing pics, but they are too distorted for printing. After reading thru these posts I see that the default is for it to tile the background. I (and another in my office) can't figure out why we were able to do it without it tiling in the past. There is no option to change this default? I assumed I had done something to change a setting in Publisher because it was doing as I wanted to before....... "Mary Sauer" wrote: When you use Format, *background*, the background will tile. The only way to overcome this is to put an image on the master page and size it to fit. It has always been this way. -- Mary Sauer MSFT MVP http://office.microsoft.com/ http://msauer.mvps.org/ news://msnews.microsoft.com "Heidi" wrote in message ... When I insert a background into a publication, it is tiling instead of just one picture. This wasn't happening before and I need to know how to change whatever setting got changed for this. |
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Heidi wrote:
When I went to change it to a different pic, it tiled. When I tried to re-use the original pic, it tiled. I've tried resizing pics, but they are too distorted for printing. How do you expect Publisher to resize the picture to fit the page without distortion if you can? Resize the image so that the height:width ratio (aspect ratio) remains the same (Shift or Control key whilst dragging a corner handle in older versions, happens automatically when dragging a corner handle in newer versions), and make it so that it fills the page in one direction and spills over in the other (if the height:width ratio is greater than that of the page, then it will spill over vertically; otherwise, horizontally). If you want, you can then crop to the size of the page, but it shouldn't make any difference either way. -- Ed Bennett - MVP Microsoft Publisher http://ed.mvps.org |
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ok, thank you!
"Mary Sauer" wrote: Heidi, It very well could have been the size of the image, it could have been too big to tile. -- Mary Sauer MSFT MVP http://office.microsoft.com/ http://msauer.mvps.org/ news://msnews.microsoft.com "Heidi" wrote in message ... I had created a publication a few days ago, when I inserted my pic for the background, it was just one pic that covered the page. When I went to change it to a different pic, it tiled. When I tried to re-use the original pic, it tiled. I've tried resizing pics, but they are too distorted for printing. After reading thru these posts I see that the default is for it to tile the background. I (and another in my office) can't figure out why we were able to do it without it tiling in the past. There is no option to change this default? I assumed I had done something to change a setting in Publisher because it was doing as I wanted to before....... "Mary Sauer" wrote: When you use Format, *background*, the background will tile. The only way to overcome this is to put an image on the master page and size it to fit. It has always been this way. -- Mary Sauer MSFT MVP http://office.microsoft.com/ http://msauer.mvps.org/ news://msnews.microsoft.com "Heidi" wrote in message ... When I insert a background into a publication, it is tiling instead of just one picture. This wasn't happening before and I need to know how to change whatever setting got changed for this. |
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Well as I stated previoulsy, the original pic I used covered the entire
document (did not tile) which is 11 x 17. It was too dark for my publication, so I used a different pic. When I used this different one for a background it tiled. So I went back to use the origial pic (thought I could just change font colors, etc.), now this original pic tiled. When trying to use this original pic by inserting it and resizing it, it became distorted. So how could it have been used as a background at one point, not tile and be clear - then using it again it tiles; and when inserting as a graphic becomes distorted when it is resized? I no longer have this graphic so I cannot tell you what the original size of it was. "Ed Bennett" wrote: Heidi wrote: When I went to change it to a different pic, it tiled. When I tried to re-use the original pic, it tiled. I've tried resizing pics, but they are too distorted for printing. How do you expect Publisher to resize the picture to fit the page without distortion if you can? Resize the image so that the height:width ratio (aspect ratio) remains the same (Shift or Control key whilst dragging a corner handle in older versions, happens automatically when dragging a corner handle in newer versions), and make it so that it fills the page in one direction and spills over in the other (if the height:width ratio is greater than that of the page, then it will spill over vertically; otherwise, horizontally). If you want, you can then crop to the size of the page, but it shouldn't make any difference either way. -- Ed Bennett - MVP Microsoft Publisher http://ed.mvps.org |
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