wearyplodder

Hi Paul, I think you have cracked it, and I am exceedingly grateful to you. I filled the master page with a rectangle filled with white, and voila, when I printed a sample page the marks had disappeared. Now I don't have to lie awake half the night trying to puzzle this out! Many, many thanks!

Paul, with a little more time to experiment I have followed your suggestion and it succesfully removed the dashes, thank you, but it seems strange that all this is necessary. It doesn't help that when I select the rectangle tool the outline of the JPG disappears, so I am left guessing where to draw the rectangle, complicated by the fact, as I have said before, that the dashes that I am trying to remove are never visible on-screen; they only show up on a printed hardcopy. For years I have been using Microsoft Publisher 2003 and never seen this issue.

Paul, just very quickly as I have to go out. I tried a rectagular box with a white fill over where I guessed the dashes to be and it removed them, so thank you very much for that. It would be a tedious process in a large book - thankfully mine has just 20 pages.

Thank you Paul Mc. This looks hopeful as I have applied slight rotations. So how exactly did you get round it? (I'm not an experienced user.)

Thanks for taking the trouble to look at this. I checked and Stroke is set to None; and in any case, in your example the dashes are clearly seen on screen, whereas mine do not appear until the page is printed. My attached example is a photo of the printout.

I wanted to reproduce some pages from an old magazine, held as a PDF, as a booklet. I produced JPGs using "Take a snapshot" in Acrobat Pro, and pasted these into a booklet in Publisher. All looked good on-screen, but when printed out there is a dashed "shadow" line along the top and left edges of most, but not all, of the JPGs. I previously had the same issue in PagePlus, but found that cropping the two offending edges a little resolved the problem; however in Publisher it just moves the lines in to the new cropped edges. Has anyone else seen this problem, and can anyone suggest how to resolve it, please