Printing images problems - Transparency, Colour Palettes and Stetching

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Printing images problems - Transparency, Colour Palettes and Stetching

We have been using RS 2000 with no service packs but knew that the direct printing option seemed a little tricky, so did not use it.

We have now upgraded to RS 2000 SP2 to use the direct printing and have hit a number of issues.

  1. PNG Images using true colour no longer seem to export properly to PDF and come out more like a hologram on a credit card (interlacing). This is easiliy fixed by downgrading the palette to 256 colours.
  2. It has reversed the issue of Transparencies. Before SP2 an circular image with a Transparency would show the box on preview but not on print (not a big problem). Now the box can't be seen on preview but can be seem when exporting to PDF (but not direct printing). This can be resolved by filling in the Image with the correct colour luckily but is annoying.
  3. Printing a circular image using the direct button stretches the image but if you print via pdf it still comes out as a perfect circle.

Point 3 is obviously my main concern but if anyone knows of any easy solutions or patches to solve the others then that would be great!

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Printing images problems - Transparency, Colour Palettes and Stetching

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