Converting Publisher Greeting Card to *.pdf file

[Jim Goldthorp]

Hi,

I have Publisher 2002 SP-2 installed and have created a
greeting card that I wish to convert to a *.pdf file so
that I can send it to someone who does not have Publisher
to view it.

I have tried to print to Acrobat Distiller
5.0.5.2001101100 in order to convert to *.pdf. The
progress window in Publisher seems to indicate that the
pages have been printed successfully to Distiller;
however, when I check the file that has been created, the
file size is 0 bytes. Obviously the conversion has not
worked.

The document in question is a bi-fold greeting card
(hence 4 pages) with full colour and true-type font. Out
of the options provided in the dialogue box for Job
Options (ie. eBook, Press, Print, or Screen), which one
should I select? Do I send the fonts to Distiller? Do I
change any of the Adobe PDF settings?

I have uninstalled and reinstalled this program. It does
not appear to have solved the problem.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Jim

 

[Jim Goldthorp]

MsPublisher,

Refreshing the Explorer window would only be relevant if
the window was open while the file was being created. I
did not open the Explorer window until such time as the
file was created and then I searched for it.

I have just tried to print to Distiller again, and it
still does not work although the progress dialogue box
shows that the file is being created.

Jim

 

[Jim Goldthorp]

Could someone other than this person respond to my
problem please? I don't find his suggestions or attitude
helpful.

Thanks,

Jim

 

[Ed Bennett]

After managing to set up OE-QuoteFix on his new PC, Ed reads a message

I have tried to print to Acrobat Distiller
5.0.5.2001101100 in order to convert to *.pdf. The
progress window in Publisher seems to indicate that the
pages have been printed successfully to Distiller;
however, when I check the file that has been created, the
file size is 0 bytes. Obviously the conversion has not
worked.

Try printing to a PostScript file using the Distiller driver, and then
distilling manually later.

 

[°°°MS°Publisher°°°]

Ed what did I say!!!

Are you just old and decrepit with Alzheimer's disease.

 

[Ed Bennett]

After managing to set up OE-QuoteFix on his new PC, Ed reads a message

Ed what did I say!!!

Are you just old and decrepit with Alzheimer's disease.

That was in a different thread, which I had not read when I made my reply
here.

 

[Randall Arnold]

See Ed's reply regarding printing to a postscript file and running Distiller
separately. I've had to do that with Publisher docs and it worked.

Randall Arnold

 

[Jim Goldthorp]

Piss off you ignoramous!

You have insulted too many people in this newsgroup. I
would appreciate it if you did not respond to ANY of my
posts because, believe it or not, YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN
CORRECT!!

I have reviewed many of your responses in this newsgroup
and they have been WRONG or did not work.

So why don't you grow up and treat people with the
respect they deserve.

By the way, if you reviewed the posts on this group you
would know that Ed Bennett is not an old man, nor does he
suffer from Alzheimer's. He happens to be in his teens
and his posts tend to be far superior to your own.

Don't bother responding.

Jim

 

[Jim Goldthorp]

Ed,

I tried your suggestion. Even though I received a
warning that I would not be able to edit the *.ps file in
Publisher, when I searched for the file at the location
to which it was supposedly saved, I couldn't locate it.
I did a search for any *.ps files created on my computer
in the past week and none had been created.

However, I did find that somehow over the course of my
many attempts to create the *.pdf file, one had indeed
been created at 20:00 EST yesterday! I have no idea what
I had done. I had trouble trying to replicate this file
creation. I did eventually succeed: I had to
deselect "Print to File". The *.pdf file was then
created and was noticeably smaller in size than that
created last night.

It would appear to be a Publisher issue and not an Adobe
issue as suggested by MS**Publisher (who once again was
wrong).


Jim

 

[Mike Koewler]

Jim,

Yes, David can be as friendly as a yellow jacket whose nest has been
trashed, but it probably is an Acrobat problem, or more likely a
setting. If you have fonts set to imbed and cancel the print job if the
font license doesn't allow embedding, your situation can happen.

Try doing a search for *.log files. Acrobat should create one named
yourfilename.log You can open it with Notepad and see what is causing
the problem.

Mike

 

[°°°MS°Publisher°°°]

Jim Goldthorp you are a nasty little bit of a poorly bred uncouth specimen.

Which trailer park were you born in?

Do you still live in the same trailer park?