WT1249: Pure Black and White Printing Add-in

• Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows 95, version 7.0

SUMMARY

This article contains the text of Application Note WT1249: "Pure Black and White Printing Add-in." When you install this add-in, you can quickly print your PowerPoint for Windows 95 presentations in pure black and white. Printing in pure black and white eliminates object fills as well as background colors and shading, while making your slide text and object borders and lines black. As a result, your presentations will print more quickly and have sharper, cleaner lines.

You can obtain this Application Note from the following sources:

• Microsoft's World Wide Web Site on the Internet
• The Internet (Microsoft anonymous ftp server)
• Microsoft Download Service (MSDL)
• Microsoft Product Support Services

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THE TEXT OF WT1249

  Microsoft(R) Product Support Services Application Note (Text File)
             WT1249: PURE BLACK AND WHITE PRINTING ADD-IN

                                                  Revision Date: 10/95
                                                       1 Disk Included

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 Application Note may not be distributed for profit.

 Copyright (C) 1995 Microsoft Corporation.  All Rights Reserved.
 Microsoft, MS-DOS, PowerPoint, and Windows are registered
 trademarks and Windows NT is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation.

Introduction

When you install the Pure Black and White Printing Add-in files included with this Application Note, you can quickly print your PowerPoint for Windows 95 presentations in pure black and white. Printing in pure black and white eliminates object fills as well as background colors and shading, while making your slide text and object borders and lines black. As a result, your presentations will print more quickly and have sharper, cleaner lines.

NOTE: Imported graphics and OLE objects will not print in pure black and white, nor will objects that were previously customized for black and white printing using the PowerPoint Black And White drop- down menu. For more information, see the "Troubleshooting Pure Black and White Printing Problems" section later in this Application Note.

Installation

To add the Pure Black and White Printing Add-in to PowerPoint for Windows 95, do the following:

1. If you received a disk with this Application Note, insert the disk in drive A.

   If you downloaded this Application Note from an online service, skip to step 2. This procedure assumes that you have already downloaded and extracted the compressed file.

2. If you are running Windows 95, click the Start button, and then click Run. (If you are running Windows NT(TM), choose Run from the File menu in Program Manager or File Manager.)

3. In the Open text box (or the Command Line box in Windows NT), type the following, and then click OK

         <source>:\setup
   

   where <source> is the location of the Pure Black and White Printing Add-in files. For example, if you are installing from the Application Note disk in drive A, type the following:

         a:\setup
   

   Or, if you downloaded and expanded Wt1249.exe from an online service to C:\Download, type the following:

         c:\download\setup
   

4. When Setup starts, it will ask if you want to install the PowerPoint Print Pure Black and White feature. Answer yes by typing "y" (without the quotation marks) and pressing ENTER.

Printing in Pure Black and White

To print your presentation quickly in pure black and white, do the following:

1. On the File menu, click Print Pure Black And White. (If this command is unavailable, see the preceding "Installation" section.)

2. In the Print dialog box, select the print options you want.

3. Make sure the Black & White check box is selected. (By default, this option is selected if you are printing to a black and white printer. If you are printing to a color printer, the option will not be selected, and you will have to click it to select it.)

4. Click OK to print the presentation.

   NOTE: There may be a delay when printing, especially with large presentations. Additionally, grouped PowerPoint objects may not print in pure black and white. To ensure pure black and white printing, ungroup grouped PowerPoint objects before printing.

Troubleshooting Pure Black and White Printing Problems

There are three types of objects in PowerPoint presentations that won't print in pure black and white:

   - Imported graphics, such as bitmaps
   - OLE objects
   - Objects that have been previously customized for normal black
     and white printing

In PowerPoint for Windows 95, you can improve the way an object will look when printed in black and white (without using the Pure Black and White Printing Add-in). To customize the black and white view and printing results for an object, you would do the following:

1. On the View Menu, click Black And White.

2. Select the object you want to customize, and then click the right mouse button.

3. Point to Black And White. A menu appears from which you can select the preferred black and white display and print attributes for the selected object.

TO OBTAIN THIS APPLICATION NOTE

You can find WT1249.EXE (size: 61654 bytes) 
                       , a self-extracting file, on the following

• Microsoft's World Wide Web Site on the Internet

        On the www.microsoft.com home page, click the Support icon.
        Click Knowledge Base, and select the product.
        Enter kbfile WT1249.EXE (size: 61654 bytes) 
                               , and click GO!
        Open the article, and click the button to download the file.
  
  

• Internet (anonymous FTP)

        ftp ftp.microsoft.com
        Change to the Softlib/Mslfiles folder.
        Get WT1249.EXE (size: 61654 bytes) 
  

• Microsoft Download Service (MSDL)

        Dial (425) 936-6735 to connect to MSDL
        Download WT1249.EXE (size: 61654 bytes) 
  

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