atw: Re: Setting a coloured border in a flyer

I tried this when I was making some wedding booklets. It looked great on
the screen, but did not work in print. To print white, printers inject
no ink, so you will not see the white box on the blue paper. 

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Subject: atw: Re: Setting a coloured border in a flyer

Make a white box, print to blue paper ?
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>---- Original Message ----
>From: idcohney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: RE: atw: Setting a coloured border in a flyer
>Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 09:35:05 +1100
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>>Hi guys,
>>I am writing a number of targeted messages to be produced as flyers.
> 
>>These messages are aimed to communicate information about the
>progress
>>of a particular project and will be updated every few days with new 
>>information.  The messages will be posted in both electronic format
>(on
>>electronic boards) and in hard copy (on notice boards) in different 
>>locations in the business.  The messages are a combination of text
>and
>>graphics and I am creating the content in MS Visio and then
>converting
>>them to gif format.
>>
>>I would like each message to display with a coloured border around
>it
>>(right up to the edges), making them look more professional and
>stand
>>out more on a notice board. I need some suggestions on how to best 
>>achieve this.  I added a border to my Visio screens, but when I
>print
>>them I still get a white print border outside my coloured border.
>There
>>does not seem to be a way to get rid of this print border in Visio.
>The
>>same white border displays when I print the gif.  I  tried pasting
>the
>>graphic into Word and set the borders to zero, but this did not work
>
>>either.
>>Any ideas would be welcome.
>>all the best
>>Ilana
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