Re: [icon-users] Export to PDF issue with background colours
- From: Martin Wuerthner <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: icon-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:44:33 +0200
In message <4F96FCB4.6040200@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Paul Stewart <paulstewart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> In message<4F92B3D2.8050601@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Paul Stewart<paulstewart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> I have a single page document that is split into two columns. I have
>>> adjusted the size of the columns so that the left hand one is narrower
>>> than the right. Both columns have text and different background colours.
>>> When I export this to PDF the background colour in the right hand column
>>> only shows up to the orginal left hand margin of the second column. All
>>> the text in the column is exported correctly to the adjusted left hand
>>> margin, but the background colour does not. Anyone else had this issue
>>> and found a way round it?
>> [...]
> With the right hand column, I adjusted the left hand margin, to make the
> column wider
You cannot actually make the column wider. What you did was to change
the formatting of the selected text to allow part of it to appear
outside its column.
> then entered the text, selected all in the column and applied the
> background colour. Looked fine on screen. However when converted to
> PDF both with the EasiWriter PDF option and by printing to PDF using
> Steve Fryatt's PrintPDF utility, the background colour on the second
> column never reflected the change in left hand margin.
Yes, I can see this. This is not related to PS or PDF export, but to
printing in general. The same happens when you print to a sprite.
Clearly, you should get the same result when printing as you see on
the screen, so this is a bug. Even though your approach is a bit
non-standard, there is no reason why printing should differ from on
screen display, otherwise this is not WYSIWYG.
Martin
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