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Old 11-24-2021, 08:40 AM
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I have a word with background pages in black.

I have to print it to pdf to avoid transparencies in Amazon KDP.

However, when I print my word to pdf, the black background dissapears and produces the mix results attached.

Can anybody please help me?
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Can you attach a sample page in Word document format. The most likely explanation is the background you are seeing is a display background. How to attach a screenshot or file in this forum.
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Under the DESIGN Ribbon, did you set the Page Color to Black, or use some other method?
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Can you attach a sample page in Word document format. The most likely explanation is the background you are seeing is a display background. How to attach a screenshot or file in this forum.
Thanks, I attach it
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Under the DESIGN Ribbon, did you set the Page Color to Black, or use some other method?
yes, I think so
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the rest of the pages, where the text is out of boxes, suffer from the same problem btw
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How are you printing the document to pdf?
The document you have supplied, if you opt to Save As > Save as type > PDF > Does the black background get preserved in the PDF file >. It does if I do it that way with your document.
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How are you printing the document to pdf?
The document you have supplied, if you opt to Save As > Save as type > PDF > Does the black background get preserved in the PDF file >. It does if I do it that way with your document.
Yes, If is save it yes, but the Amazon KDP team told me that I have to use the 'print to pdf' option in order to remove transparencies.

If I save it, transparencies aren't removed once printed.

Does anybody know how can I solve the problem?
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Here is a screenshot from Print Preview of your document, which has a Black Page Color under the Design tab:

I changed the page color to white and added a margin-to-margin textbox in the Header. It is set to be behind text. I've attached that document.
deleteme example.docx
Here is a screenshot from the Print Preview of the modified document.



Here is a temporary link to the pdf produced using Microsoft Print to PDF which tells me that I need to expand the text box a bit. I have no real explanation for why one works and the other does not.
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I also tried using Save As pdf and then from Adobe Reader, printing to pdf. That gave the black background without the textbox in the header.
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Here is a screenshot from Print Preview of your document, which has a Black Page Color under the Design tab:

I changed the page color to white and added a margin-to-margin textbox in the Header. It is set to be behind text. I've attached that document.
Attachment 17203
Here is a screenshot from the Print Preview of the modified document.



Here is a temporary link to the pdf produced using Microsoft Print to PDF which tells me that I need to expand the text box a bit. I have no real explanation for why one works and the other does not.
thank you very much! excellent job!
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You are welcome. Sometimes a workaround is the only way to get there.
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Thanks, I attach it
I was using Dark Mode which created some UI issues. I switched to Colorful to avoid some confusion.
When I Exported your document as a PDF, the PDF was white text on a full page of black.
When I used the Print>> using the Microsoft PDF Printer, the result was a mostly white page except for the object boxes. This matched the view of Dark Mode.
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