Inserting an eBook Header...?

[Andrew Maule]

How do I do this? I'm not looking for the MS Word advice of inserting a header that goes faded and doesn't go all the way to the edge of the page. I'm looking for the header to stay equally bright, example attached. How the heck do I do this!? I'm going nuts trying to figure it out. I have looked everywhere.

[RichardDean]

Not sure what you are doing?

[Andrew Maule]

Trying to insert a header into my eBook that has no margins and does not become faded like when that happens in MS Word, I want it to look like the attached image.

[globalpro]

Hi,

Is the image getting sized correctly after insertion?

Thanks,

John

[Andrew Maule]

John,

I try to size it but it always has a huge block of white space on the left (because of the margins). Also, the image goes faded once you are done editing the header and it looks really cruddy. That's why I feel there's another way to do this or something but I don't know...

[e-mail2u]

Try doing it with open office, open office can open ms word doc so you can open the file directly and save to pdf from within the open office writer. Worth a try since it is free to download..

www: OpenOffice.org - The Free and Open Productivity Suite

[Andrew Maule]

Originally Posted by e-mail2u

Try doing it with open office, open office can open ms word doc so you can open the file directly and save to pdf from within the open office writer. Worth a try since it is free to download..

www: OpenOffice.org - The Free and Open Productivity Suite

I don't know if I understand what you're recommending. I have MS Word + Adobe PDF so converting to PDF is no problem it's the issue of getting a header into the file with no margin and without the image fading, like when you insert a header into MS Word the image fades and you can't make the image go all the way to the edge of the page (like the attached sample above).

[globalpro]

If you are ending up with white space, are you trying to resize the image in Word to compensate? That can distort the image.

Open Office may be an option. I have been using it for a while and it does a much better job all the way across the board.

MS Word can be quirky with stuff like this.

Thanks,

John

[Andrew Maule]

globalpro, regardless of the image size I use it resizes it to fit within the margins. Do you at least know how to keep the image/text inside the header from being faded? No one seems to know how to do this either. :/

[danno52000]

Originally Posted by e-mail2u

Try doing it with open office, open office can open ms word doc so you can open the file directly and save to pdf from within the open office writer. Worth a try since it is free to download..

www: OpenOffice.org - The Free and Open Productivity Suite

good tip! Thanks for the post

[e-mail2u]

Check your page anchors are you aligning the image to the left, right or center. Plus check your wrap settings ie wraping text to the left, right or around the image..

Any ways how would i know i use open office...

[Andrew Maule]

GOT IT. I changed what maybe you were saying was the page anchors, but when I go to format the header in MS Word I was able to change the margins by moving those "anchors" (again, if that's the same thing we're talking about here) and the margins stayed the same for the rest of the document. Does anyone know how to keep the header from fading now?

[globalpro]

OK,

I tried inserting an image into Word and it does distort the image if it's not the correct size to fit. You can insert the image, the right click => Format Picture to change things around, but increasing the size of a smaller image does distort it.

Thanks,

John

[getsmartt]

If you are actually putting the image into the header, the fade is just Words way of letting you know it is in the header and not part of the page. Dump it to pdf or print it, it will be fine

[Andrew Maule]

Originally Posted by globalpro

OK,

I tried inserting an image into Word and it does distort the image if it's not the correct size to fit. You can insert the image, the right click => Format Picture to change things around, but increasing the size of a smaller image does distort it.

Thanks,

John

Hey John,

I wasn't having problems with distortion, it was MS Word fitting the image inside the margins of the header and leaving a bunch of white space around it. If you move the page anchors and increase the margin WHILE in MS Word Header formatting you can get it all the way to the edge of the pages.

[Andrew Maule]

Never mind. Figured it out. I guess Word just makes it look transparent but when you go to print or convert to PDF it's all good! Thanks for the help everyone, totally solved now!!