Letterhead Help!!!
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- letterhead0
Sorry, I can't help you with this
- Amicus0
How many MS engineers does it take to fix that fucking joke of a program?
- pango0
lol... how many designers does it take to set letterhead in MS?
fucking MS...
- nato0
Just place the PNGs in the header.
- canoe0
what if you unclick washout for watermark and it still seems to show up in Lighten mode?
- nato0
I always place PNGs instead of JPGs, as JPGs tend to bloat up Word documents after being resaved. I also like to do any vector graphics (logos, static type, graphics, etc) at 10x the size. So I'll design in Indesign or Illustrator, save a PDF, open it in Photoshop at size but at 720 dpi. Then flatten, trim, convert to sRGB, and change the dpi to 72dpi. This file will be very large in 'physical dimensions', but not really so big in filesize. Then save as PNG. I'll then optimize it with ImageAlpha ( http://pngmini.com/ ), which will strip out the PS bloat and halve the filesize. Then place the PNG in Word at 10% the size. This will print graphics really sharp every time. This works, I guarantee it.
- trooperbill0
set as a background image and have the content flow over the top.
- canoe0
Ughfuck, I have to do this for another Binder Cover - I think I will go with the watermark method since the design is the "background" and they will need to type over the cover art. Grrr- just paste it into the header and lock it downmonospaced
- will try this nowcanoe
- ali0
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 moremonospaced
- canoe0
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?
- canoe0
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
- Nathan_Adams0
Yeah, as long as you don't get any dithering as a result of being limited to 256 indexed colour, it's looks fine.
- canoe0
Does that work for print? 8bit PNG?
- Nathan_Adams0
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.
- canoe0
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.
- canoe0
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.
- Amicus0
^ 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?monospaced
- 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 ;)Amicus
- Amicus0
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.
- vaxorcist0
it's unbelievable that anyone would use an EMF watermark