Anyone using MS Publisher?

15 years ago

I am pretty sure you can just "print" to PDF, thus creating a file, rather than using your normal printer as a destination. If that doesn't work, you can always download the 30 day trial of Acrobat Pro from Adobe.

FYI: If you do a lot of these I would seriously switch to iMac, becuase Pages 09 turns these documents into something really special.

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Blase

15 years ago

Hi,

I use publisher and I have Adobe Acrobat 8, yes the real PDF maker that costs an arm an 1/2 a leg.

I can not save publisher directly to a PDF.

Have you thought about clicking "save as"...
then go down to your "save as type" in your new window...
then save it as a word doc...
then save it to a PDF.

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Marty S

15 years ago

Not save, no - you choose PRINT to a pdf, then you do whatever you want with it.

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ShayB 15 years ago

Do you have a gmail address?

You can send the document from yourself to yourself.

Open the document as a Google document.

Save it as a PDF.
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NetOpps2

15 years ago

ScanSoft PDF converter Pro would do this for you - drag and drop from a to b = PDF output.

Alternatively, save your MS publisher file as either HTML, JPEG or TIF.

If you save as a simple JPEG or GIF you can easily embed the image in an email or attach it to your outgoing message. Note, TIF will be the better quality but it will be a larger file - JPEG is probably the best way to go.

Go to Save As and select the second drop down menu entitled "Save as Type" and name the file and save to My Documents. Then open up your email client, create your email and attach the JPEG file and send.

If all this fails, send me the file and I will convert it into PDF for you.

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sylviad

15 years ago

Originally Posted by NetOpps2

ScanSoft PDF converter Pro would do this for you - drag and drop from a to b = PDF output.

Alternatively, save your MS publisher file as either HTML, JPEG or TIF.

If you save as a simple JPEG or GIF you can easily embed the image in an email or attach it to your outgoing message. Note, TIF will be the better quality but it will be a larger file - JPEG is probably the best way to go.

Go to Save As and select the second drop down menu entitled "Save as Type" and name the file and save to My Documents. Then open up your email client, create your email and attach the JPEG file and send.

If all this fails, send me the file and I will convert it into PDF for you.

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NetOpps2.

Thank you NetOpps2, you hit the nail right on the head. This was the answer I needed - and it works great. And you are absolutely right, TIFF files can be huge, and this document is already 4MB with the photos. Turning it into a Jpeg produced a file that's around 200 kb.

I did try saving it as a web page originally when I had the problem, but it makes a huge page and screws up some of the printing on my original - have no idea why and can't see any reason for it in the original.

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Blase

15 years ago

Originally Posted by Marty S

Not save, no - you choose PRINT to a pdf, then you do whatever you want with it.

Marty you are correct, I am wrong, and I know it's print
but I never looked there.

Most of my programs say at the top of the tool bar
something about "Make PDF" and I just click that.
My publisher doesn't say that.

So Sylviad,

Just go over to... file >print >then where it has your printer listed in the drop down you will find Adobe PDF.

Sorry I missed that.

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sylviad

15 years ago

Thanks Warriors...

You wouldn't believe what I just went through before I came back here to see if there were any more suggestions.

I opened the Publisher document as big as I could and did print screen, then copied that into Word, cropped and sized the image - then turned the file into a PDF. The quality is horrific.

So I did the save as... a jpeg image. (One of those, "Why didn't I think of that?" scenarios. :rolleyes

Of course, you need an image viewer to view it. In Photoshop it looks 200,000% better than my first attempt. At least my client will be able to actually "read" what it says now. And the file size is a million times smaller than the design file - well below the limit for sending to Hotmail.

Thank you -

Too bad you can't just create a PDF directly from Publisher - at least you can't in mine. I tried print to PDF but that didn't work. If I do many more of these, maybe I should invest in a better quality PDF converter as mine is just a free one. It serves me well for everything else, though.

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Marty S

15 years ago

Originally Posted by sylviad

Too bad you can't just create a PDF directly from Publisher - at least you can't in mine. I tried print to PDF but that didn't work. If I do many more of these, maybe I should invest in a better quality PDF converter as mine is just a free one. It serves me well for everything else, though.

Sylvia

You can add this as a print option for FREE from the microsoft website. Its almost like installing a driver. Just do a search on that website.

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sylviad 15 years ago

Originally Posted by Marty S

You can add this as a print option for FREE from the microsoft website. Its almost like installing a driver. Just do a search on that website.

What a shame. It only works for 2007 version - I'm only on 2003.

I really don't understand why MS does that... abandon old versions rather than making these addons work for all. There was another program that I discovered that MS dropped completely so you cannot get anything for them, ie: templates. FrontPage I believe it was.

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- sylviad 15 years ago
  
  Thank you, LogoNerds...
  
  I just ran a draft version of my file on that site and it worked... directly from Publisher format to PDF. My final brochure is too big for that service. I'll have to split it into 2 documents, but that's ok.
  
  My problems have been solved!
  
  Thank you very much, Warriors.
  
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SteveJohnson

15 years ago

Originally Posted by Blase

Marty you are correct, I am wrong, and I know it's print
but I never looked there.

Most of my programs say at the top of the tool bar
something about "Make PDF" and I just click that.
My publisher doesn't say that.

You'll only have the Adobe PDF 'printer' if you have Acrobat installed, it's not a built-in driver in Windows, so you didn't miss anything. Nothing to apologise for.

Sylvia - do you have a printer lined up that will use a Publisher file? The vast majority of 'hometown' printers won't/can't. Kinko's will, I think, but I haven't asked them in a while.

Maybe you should just outsource the actual document creation to someone who has the tools to do it correctly? It might mean fewer headaches for you in the long run...

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sylviad

15 years ago

Originally Posted by SteveJohnson

Maybe you should just outsource the actual document creation to someone who has the tools to do it correctly? It might mean fewer headaches for you in the long run...

Thanks for the suggestion, Steve, but I do have a program that is strictly for designing brochures, newsletters, etc. as I've done them in the past for clients. But it's been so long since I did this type of work I've forgotten how to work that program.

Besides, this was a trade-for-trade project - so I could get my eavestrough replaced at a huge discount.

Outsourcing would negate the savings.

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jensrsa

15 years ago

Try Zamzar - Free online file conversion. I've never used it so I don't know the quality

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NetOpps2

15 years ago

No probs (that`s "you are welcome in US speak").

All the best,
netopps2.

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15 years ago

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Pete Egeler

15 years ago

I use my Publisher program for just about everything, AND I print it direct to pdf with no problems.

I'm using the free version of PDF995

Pete

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sylviad 15 years ago

Originally Posted by Pete Egeler

I use my Publisher program for just about everything, AND I print it direct to pdf with no problems.

I'm using the free version of PDF995

Pete

Really? Because I'm using pdf995 too and it rejected the file format.
Hm. Interesting. Maybe I should take another look.

Maybe it depends on your version of publisher - I'm in 2003.

I know it definitely doesn't work with my InDesign program as the file extension isn't listed in the options - I tried anyway, but it was rejected.

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- elsvirtual 15 years ago
  
  Sylvia,
  
  I use CutePDF and it converts my Publisher docs no problem. It's free, too.
  
  Just download it and when you've got your Publisher doc up, click print, select CutePDF as the printer and then specify where you want to put the file.
  
  And that's it...a high-quality PDF version of your Publisher doc!
  
  Evy
  
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