atw: Re: Help! All text has...disappeared on Print.
- From: "Kofler, Mark" <Mark.Kofler@xxxxxx>
- To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 15:32:25 +1000
Amanda,
Seems the document is corrupt.
Before you bury the document you could try:
* Deleting all the images in the document. I found that corrupt
graphics can cause strange problems. Also try deleting tables. Earlier
versions of Word did not handle large tables very well.
* You could try to find the source of the corruption. Save pages
1 to 35 in one document, and pages 36 - 70 in another document. Print
both documents. Does the problem occur in both documents? If only one,
then the source of your corruption is in that document. Split the
corrupt document again and print. Should take you only three of four
copies to narrow down the source of the corruption.
Mark Kofler
CA
Sr Technical Writer
Tel: +1-610399446654
Mobile: +1-61401375219
Mark.Kofler@xxxxxx
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From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Amanda Cat
Sent: Tuesday, 1 June 2010 3:19 PM
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Re: Help! All text has...disappeared on Print.
* Eliminate the printer or printer driver as the problem
o Trying printing to a different printer. Are your printer drivers
corrupt?
No :(
Four different printers in two different states! :)
o Send the document to someone else and ask them to print it. Does the
problem still occur?
Yes.
* Try a cut and paste into another document attached to a normal
template and see if the result is the same.
The text does appears if I cut and paste into another document and
print. Hmmmm...
If I attach the template to another document, it still prints. So the
template itself seems fine...
It seems to be just this one document.
* Attach a different template to the problem document and see if
the problem still occurs.
Yes indeed it does still occur (I hadn't thought of that as I didn't
want to change all the styles.)
There is something in this document. Something nefarious.
* Eliminate formatting as the problem
o Select all the text in the document and then Ctrl+Spacebar. This
will reset all manually applied formatting, then print.
Nothing but the odd bullet and number. Curiouser and curiouser.
o Change all the styles in the document to Normal and then try and
print
Still blank!
Crazy times :)
But I have salvaged the text so that's fine. Should I take this one
document out the back, cap it and bury it?
I think that's kindest... :)
Amanda
Mark Kofler
CA
Sr Technical Writer
Tel: +1-610399446654
Mobile: +1-61401375219
Mark.Kofler@xxxxxx
<mailto:Mark.Kofler@xxxxxx> <http://www.ca.com/>
From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Amanda Cat
Sent: Tuesday, 1 June 2010 2:36 PM
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Re: Help! All text has...disappeared on Print.
No, not in text boxes - in fact, no text boxes in the doc at all. I
accepted all edits, I deleted all comments, I turned on Draw
<EveryDamnThing> in the Printer options...
The solution is going to be very simple, I'm sure. But it's sure got me
stumped. Love a good challenge. :)
It's printed in OpenOffice, though, so that's something. The
time-dependent nature of the emergency is gone. It's a puzzler, though!
Many thanks, all.
Amanda
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Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 14:27:30 +1000
From: maloneyn@xxxxxxxxxxx
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Re: Help! All text has...disappeared on Print.
If all of the text is in text boxes ' REM unlikely, but just in case it
is
Then go into Printing options and turn on "Drawing objects"
End If
Neil.
On 1/06/2010 2:09 PM, Amanda Cat wrote:
Hey, gang,
I have a Word document (70 pages with images and using a standard
Word-generated style sheet).
When I print or PDF it (still a form of printing), the images display,
but there is NO TEXT. The odd bullet and number from a list is also
displayed, but other than that, I get 70 pages of blank.
I have saved it as a DOC, DOCX, RTF... I have reattached the style
sheet. I have printed another document which uses the same style sheet -
that prints fine.
Is there some "Magic Printer Word Switch Thing(TM)" I have tripped that
has disolved my text?
Help!!! The Programmer is getting impatient and wants his hard copy to
review and... I'm at a loss.
Many thanks in advance,
Amanda
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