Converting a publisher file

[Budadm]

Hi
I create a business card with publisher but I need to convert this file to
either a tif or jpeg. Can anyone know of a file conversion that can do this?

Thanks

 

[John G]

Depends what version you did not tell us.
In Pub 2003 try Save As.

 

[Ed Bennett]

I create a business card with publisher but I need to convert this
file to either a tif or jpeg. Can anyone know of a file conversion
that can do this?

Alternatively, SnagIt from www.techsmith.com can capturer "printer" output
(it installs a virtual printer that does not output to your physical
printer) that converts everything it receives to images. Quite neat.

Are you sure that you want TIF or JPEG though? If you need this for a
commercial printer, I would suggest that you use PDF instead.

www.primopdf.com has a free PDF converter, which preserves quality far
better than a JPEG conversion and a little better than a high-res TIFF
conversion.

 

[Assia]

Hi,
If you want to convert your business card to a picture format, select the
picture and right click then choose save as a picture from the menu.
If you want to give your business card to a print shop, find a printer that
uses Publisher.
Assia

 

[Ed Bennett]

If you want to convert your business card to a picture format, select
the picture and right click then choose save as a picture from the
menu.

This onlz works in Publisher 2003 (there is a feature in Publisher 2002, but
the quality is not good enough for this purpose)

If you want to give your business card to a print shop, find a
printer that uses Publisher.

That is not necessary - simply supply the printer with a PDF file.

 

[Assia]

Hi,

To convert your business card to a picture format, you can do so by right
clicking the document (open) and choose save as a picture. You can do so if
you have Publisher 2003.
Now if you want to give your business card to a print shop, you do not have
to convert. Find a printer that uses Publisher. You do not have to convert
your document to a PDF or picture to print them. No need for extra
unecessary work.
http://mspublisher.saltmine.com/printerSearch.aspx This link will help you
find a local printer in your area that uses Publisher.
Assia

 

[Ed Bennett]

To convert your business card to a picture format, you can do so by
right clicking the document (open) and choose save as a picture. You
can do so if you have Publisher 2003.

I just tried that: Save As Picture is not available unless you click an
object. Right-clicking an object and saving as picture only saves that
object.
You want to go to File > Save As..., and select a picture format from the
drop-down menu labelled "Save as type"

Now if you want to give your business card to a print shop, you do
not have to convert.

One thing we agree on - you don't need to convert to an image to send a file
to a commercial printer!

Find a printer that uses Publisher. You do not
have to convert your document to a PDF or picture to print them. No
need for extra unecessary work.
http://mspublisher.saltmine.com/printerSearch.aspx This link will
help you find a local printer in your area that uses Publisher.

However, only US, Canada and the UK are supported on the Publisher Preferred
Service Provider program. Outside there, you're on your own. And in the
cold hard world of printing, Microsoft Publisher is not a very popular
product.
In addition, in many places the printers that support Publisher are more
expensive, or charge more for jobs supplied in Publisher format than for
those that are supplied as PDF files.

 

[Assia]

With a business card you select everything and group it and select it, then
right click the business card you will be converting everything.

 

[Ed Bennett]

With a business card you select everything and group it and select
it, then right click the business card you will be converting
everything.

You still don't right-click the business card, you right-click an object on
the card.

Anyway, using File > Save As is faster and easier.

 

[Assia]

I think you would be the absolutely last person I would contact to do my
printing job. I do not like your professionalism.

 

[Assia]

Can I ask you the reasons for which you want to convert your business card to
a picture format. This may help. Thank you

 

[Assia]

You would be the last one to do printing and desktop publishing work.

 

[Ed Bennett]

I think you would be the absolutely last person I would contact to do
my printing job. I do not like your professionalism.

I am not a professional printer, and so you would never contact me to do
your print job.
The best printer I have is a HP DeskJet.

What does professionalism mean to you?
Not correcting others when you believe they have provided inaccurate,
incorrect, or incomplete information?
Or making sure that every question is answered to the very best of your
abilities?

 

[Ed Bennett]

You would be the last one to do printing and desktop publishing work.

Then you will be surprised to learn that in 2003 I layed out from scratch a
52-page yearbook in Microsoft Publisher, and delivered it to my printers as
a PDF file to produce a run of 225 books. I dealt separately with a binding
company.

Had I chosen to use a printing firm who accepted Microsoft Publisher files
natively, I would have been paying at least 33% more.

I was extremely busy at that time and had virtually no time to work on this
project, which was being done unpaid in my own free time, and so I did not
have time to add intermediary steps like converting to Word before
converting to Publisher, or grouping all objects and right-clicking instead
of using File > Save As, so I appreciate being able to take the quickest
path so I do not waste my time. I figure that users who ask for advice here
have similar time constraints, and appreciate being given the fastest
possible option as quickly as possible.

 

[Mike Koewler]

Ed,

Some people are so set in their ways they refuse to consider
alternatives that are easier or produce better results. A case in point:
outputting full color images. For years, I had believed to get a true
reproduction of a color image, the image needed to be CMYK and not RGB.
Then, I read a series of posts from a guy who had spent years studying
the aspect. His recommendation was to keep everything as RGB and print
that, in essence, creating a RGB pdf, then use a program like QBOT or
PitStop to convert the file to CMYK. I decided to try it and was very,
very pleased with the results. The colors were more true than placing a
CMYK eps file and then making a pdf of it.

One other thing to consider: lots of printers gang business card jobs
for printing. If they get a native pub file, they are going to convert
it to an image or pdf file to place, but they are going to charge for
that. Why not ask them what they want, send them that and save a few
dollars or pounds!

Mike