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  • canoe

    One of my clients HAS to have their letterhead in MS Word... any ideas on the best way of doing this?

    I can pay for help if someone wants to give me their email address.

    Jul 11, 12, 12:50 p.m. – Permalink
  • monospaced

    just put the artwork in the header and set the type specs and margins

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    Dog-earJul 11, 12, 12:51 p.m. – Permalink
  • canoe

    thanks monospaced, we're having a hard time with the margins...

    do you have 30 minutes to work on this today?

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    Dog-earJul 11, 12, 12:54 p.m. – Permalink
  • Gnash

    I copy and pasted a tip that i_monk had posted a while back here on QBN. Lost the link but have his method saved:

    1. Save your letterhead as an 8.5x11 PDF, print quality.
    2. in Word, turn on Headers & Footers (so you can see them)
    3. Click in the Header space, and Insert Picture from File...
    4. Select your PDF, it will appear in the header probably shifted half off the page.
    5. Right click and Format Picture... Here you see it to Size/Scale to100% (the default is like 71%), position Behind Text, and the Absolute Position has to be 0cm and 0cm, from Page (I think Margin is the default). You may have to repeat this step a few times because it seems to selectively ignore the absolute position details.
    6. Turn off headers (so you can't see them anymore) and save.

    • again, via i_monk– Gnash1/6
      Heh i've done this before... doesn't always work though– d_rek2/6
      only needed to do it once myself. worked that time but required some fiddling– Gnash3/6
      Always had issues when handing off files that contained PDF artwork to clients– d_rek4/6
      the PDF thing won't work, use a PNG or something at high-res– monospaced5/6
      PDF all the way - it works– timeless6/6
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    Dog-earJul 11, 12, 12:54 p.m. – Permalink
  • canoe

    I'm all ears if there is a better way?

    I've read that I need to save the files out as EMF.

    • like they use for ghosts? (electro-magnetic-fr...– Gnash1/2
      I think EMFs only recognize RGB (not CMYK). I don't know if that makes a difference for you.– Gnash2/2
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    Dog-earJul 11, 12, 1:07 p.m. – Permalink
  • canoe

    Electronic Meta File?

    • "enhanced" - meaning broken. do not use.– monNom1/2
      lol monNom– detritus2/2
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    Dog-earJul 11, 12, 1:11 p.m. – Permalink
  • Gnash

    http://www.msofficeforums.com/wo…

    These guys suggest using the EMF as a "watermark". perhaps that will work better than a header/footer

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    Dog-earJul 11, 12, 1:16 p.m. – Permalink
  • monNom

    1200dpi .tiff bitmap in a .DOT file. (1bit/channel). Always prints sharp, no messing around.

    • you're putting my nonskillz to the test... never really worked in print prepro– canoe1/4
      1200 might be overkill, but that's the general idea.– monospaced2/4
      do i set up the file in illustrator then? or when I export it?– canoe3/4
      when it's only 1bit, you can get away with some extra res. Output from PS 300dpi greyscale > bitmap (threshold)– monNom4/4
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    Dog-earJul 11, 12, 2:08 p.m. – Permalink
  • canoe

    I will see if I can output that in illustrator, right?

    Fuckin' MS Word - what a piece of cruddy poo poo

    • use raster in MS Word, not vector files. Convert in PS I guess– monospaced
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    Dog-earJul 11, 12, 2:19 p.m. – Permalink
  • inv

    Here you go

    http://mywifemademewatchthis.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/leatherheads.jpg

    • The bulldog in the pic is my pups granddad.– 404
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    Dog-earJul 11, 12, 2:20 p.m. – Permalink
  • vaxorcist

    it's unbelievable that anyone would use an EMF watermark

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    Dog-earJul 11, 12, 2:22 p.m. – Permalink
  • Amicus

    When saving the PDF choose screen res, but change the compression to 300dpi and maximum quality.

    If you are on a mac make sure you are not working in compatibility mode.... eg. save as .docx before you try inserting the pdf. You can make it .doc after you have resized etc. as per i_monk and Gnash.

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    Dog-earJul 11, 12, 2:45 p.m. – Permalink
  • Amicus

    ^ that was for monospaced. It does work, you just need to know all the frickin' work arounds that microshit thinks is a good workflow.

    • got it ... fucking frustrating. I did it on the Mac but on the PC the PDF looks like 10dpi shite. the docx fixes that?– monospaced1/2
      in my experience, yes. but this is microsoft... it might only work on a certain version of windows with a certain patch and certain versions of word ;)– Amicus2/2
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    Dog-earJul 11, 12, 2:46 p.m. – Permalink
  • canoe

    I exported as an EMF and had to place the watermark at 85%

    The hi-res PDF made the document about 3MB but landed nicely at 100%

    Still waiting on printouts.

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    Dog-earJul 11, 12, 3:42 p.m. – Permalink
  • canoe

    Can anyone tell me what kind of settings I need to have for a PDF to print well, yet not be larger than 1MB - the content consists of three simple logos and some text, nothing more than 100k.

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    Dog-earJul 11, 12, 3:52 p.m. – Permalink
  • Nathan_Adams

    I've found 8bit PNGs to be better than PDFs. There's a weird bug in Word, where if a client opens the file and saves it, even with no changes, the file size increases - sometimes resulting in massive files when it's only the letterhead artwork, and one paragraph of text. Using PNGs, it seems to be much less of a problem.

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    Dog-earJul 11, 12, 4:47 p.m. – Permalink
  • canoe

    Does that work for print? 8bit PNG?

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    Dog-earJul 11, 12, 4:59 p.m. – Permalink
  • Nathan_Adams

    Yeah, as long as you don't get any dithering as a result of being limited to 256 indexed colour, it's looks fine.

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    Dog-earJul 11, 12, 5:13 p.m. – Permalink
  • canoe

    Don't forget that you have to anchor the image...

    When the image is clicked on, go to format/picture/layout/advanced and make sure that the vertical and horiz alignment is center RELATIVE to PAGE

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    Dog-earJul 12, 12, 9:16 a.m. – Permalink
  • canoe

    The watermark idea worked fine.

    They now want it in Header and Footer, two separate images.

    This thing is not anchoring and acting crizzy - do I open a 300dpi file in PS and then save it out as PNG24?

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    Dog-earJul 18, 12, 9:56 a.m. – Permalink
  • ali

    This has always worked for me:
    - Design in Indesign or other at letterhead size
    - Export as standard high res PDF, 300 dpi cmyk
    - Open PDF in PShop
    (Page options: Crop to: Trim box, Res 300dpi, cmyk)
    - Crop header (include area from top and side margins to edge of page) or crop/copy into a new window if there is a Header & Footer.
    - Convert to RGB, flatten and save as JPG (uncheck 'Embed colour profile), quality 10 (or 9 if smaller file size is required)
    - Crop/trim Footer: save as above
    - Open new word doc
    - VIEW / Header and Footer
    - INSERT / Picture from file
    - Double-click image: Size to 100%, Wrapping style behind text, Horizontal alignment to centre
    - Click ADVANCED button / Picture position / Horizontal Alignment CENTRED relative to page / Vertical alignment TOP relative to page.
    - Check all OPTIONS except 'picture placeholder'
    - OK, then do the same for footer except align to BOTTOM relative to page.
    - Close HEADER/FOOTER view
    - FORMAT / Document: Set TOP margin to where you want the copy to start and side margins as required.

    Note: Word fucking sucks balls and will do everything in it's power to fuck you up at every opportunity.

    • comprehensive, and I couldn't agree with your last statement more– monospaced
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    Dog-earJul 19, 12, 6:43 a.m. – Permalink

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