Letterhead Help!!!
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- pango0
lol... how many designers does it take to set letterhead in MS?
fucking MS...
- monospaced0
just put the artwork in the header and set the type specs and margins
- canoe0
thanks monospaced, we're having a hard time with the margins...
do you have 30 minutes to work on this today?
- Gnash0
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_monkGnash
- Heh i've done this before... doesn't always work thoughd_rek
- only needed to do it once myself. worked that time but required some fiddlingGnash
- Always had issues when handing off files that contained PDF artwork to clientsd_rek
- the PDF thing won't work, use a PNG or something at high-resmonospaced
- PDF all the way - it workstimeless
- 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
- Gnash0
http://www.msofficeforums.com/wo…
These guys suggest using the EMF as a "watermark". perhaps that will work better than a header/footer
- Amicus0
How many MS engineers does it take to fix that fucking joke of a program?
- monNom0
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 preprocanoe
- 1200 might be overkill, but that's the general idea.monospaced
- do i set up the file in illustrator then? or when I export it?canoe
- when it's only 1bit, you can get away with some extra res. Output from PS 300dpi greyscale > bitmap (threshold)monNom
- canoe0
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 guessmonospaced
- inv0
- vaxorcist0
it's unbelievable that anyone would use an EMF watermark
- 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.
- 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
- letterhead0
Sorry, I can't help you with this
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.