Crazy Publisher

[ladalang]

I've been building websites for about 3 years and my Publisher is doing crazy
stuff. The website I'm working on was having the red x's all of the sudden
on certain pictures so I found the solution here. when I told it to uncheck
rely on VML and check allow PNG, the whole site got messed up. I compressed
photos as well. heres the link

www.avonlakealumni.org

it's filled with broken links and picture links on firefox and red x's on IE..

I use passive ftp filezilla and I never forget my index_file folder every
time I reload. I'm on a Linux server and have no forms on the site. I wish
i had built it in dreamweaver but that is neither here nor there.

is there any other solution to red x's?

 

[DavidF]

*Uncheck* "allow PNG..." .

Don't use a Master Page for anything.

Republish and see if that fixes the image issues.

Which links don't work?

DavidF

 

[ladalang]

I did as instructed but I don't know what a master page is and have never
used it, although I saw it as a choice. If by some remote chance I did that,
is there a way to see if I did and undo it?

The broken links I was referring to, On firefox it looks like a box that's
broken on most of the site.

Thank you for your help!

 

[ladalang]

still getting red x's, now just different ones....Ugh!

 

[Rob Giordano [MS MVP]]

NO broken links in both IE7 or FF3

Which pages are you seeing with broken links? Try refreshing page view (F5).



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Rob Giordano
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[Spike]

David

If you go to alumni store or links the NAV BAR is toast

Maybe this requires a pub fie posting
Looking at the original sometimes is more helpful than reading through
source code
An alternative method to your choice of posting pub files is to put the pub
file on his own web site in the root directory for downloading

Like www.avonlakealumni.org/mypubfile.pub

Spike

 

[ladalang]

I was seeing them but I keep trying different things. Now all I see is in IE
my top logo is a red x, but fine in Firefox. It's strange because Firefox
isn't a microsoft product yet it displays a microsoft website better.

 

[ladalang]

Spike,
go to the alumni store, the mouse image next to Avon lake Alumni Store is
from Microsoft's own clip art yet it has a red x. And look at the animated
gif on that page at the bottom, it red x's the last two frames. I go into
Microsoft gif animator and run it and it's prefect.

I don't see any rhyme or reason as to why it decides to show the images or
not. Everything can be Microsoft and still red x's. I'm looking for a
permanent consistent fix. When I load an image I don't want any to have red
X's, especially those out of Microsoft's own library.

Can you think of any other fix?

 

[Rob Giordano [MS MVP]]

whew...everything looks fine to me still...in IE7-FF3 and Chrome

as far as the mouse image...if ladalang is talking about the gold mouse with
the little surfer guy on it...I see it but it's not animated. Keep in mind
when using an animated gif, that you cannot change it's dimensions or it
won't "play"



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Rob Giordano
Microsoft MVP Expression

 

[Spike]

I see what appears to be overlapping objects

What version of publisher are you using?

The gif image036.gif is what is called for and I see that it is on the
server. I am thinking that some overlapping images may be part of the red X
problem.

Spike

 

[ladalang]

he isn't animated

whew...everything looks fine to me still...in IE7-FF3 and Chrome

as far as the mouse image...if ladalang is talking about the gold mouse with
the little surfer guy on it...I see it but it's not animated. Keep in mind
when using an animated gif, that you cannot change it's dimensions or it
won't "play"

 

[ladalang]

so no overlapping objects of any kind? Is there a work around? 2003

 

[Spike]

Overlapping objects can kill hyperlinks.
In publisher be careful not to let objects with hyperlinks overlap with
other objects.
Keep the dotted outline of the objects separate from each other.

I am using pub 2002 and 2007
I do not have access to 2003
I don't know the differences between 2003 and 2007

Spike

 

[DavidF]

What type of file did you use when you created the top left logo? I am
guessing that you used some sort of word art? If you review your files in
your index_files folder, do you have a .wmz file? These are converted by
Publisher to gif files for FF, but IE can, sometimes, display them. This is
actually a fairly common problem. I think that you have to have the VML
option enabled for IE to view .wmz files correctly, but of course that
messes up lots of other things with the FF view of the page.

The workaround for this is to use the gif file that Publisher produces for
FF instead of the .wmz. Here is the link to that gif:
http://www.avonlakealumni.org/index_files/image003.gif If that version of
your logo is acceptable, then insert that gif file into your Pub file
instead of the .wmz file, and you should get a consistent look in both IE
and FF.

I also assume from what you posted that the links are all now working? If
not, let us know.

DavidF

 

[DavidF]

As per the mouse image, do you have that grouped with the text box with the
Avon Lake Alumni Store text? If so try ungrouping the two objects. Also what
is the format of the mouse? Is it again a .wmz file, or a gif?

As per the animated gif, I think Rob nailed the problem. You are not
displaying the gif at full scale, which breaks it. Here is a link to what
the gif should look like:
http://www.avonlakealumni.org/index_files/image034.gif
Select the gif on the Pub page and go to Format > Picture > Size tab and
change the scale to 100% and I would guess that the gif will work correctly.
If you need a more narrow version of the gif, you will have to build one.
Just changing the dimensions on the Pub page or running the compression tool
won't work with an animated gif.

Let us know if ungrouping the mouse, and resizing the gif fixes those two
problems. Anything else?

DavidF

 

[DavidF]

Spike,

If you overlap objects, or pictures in Pub 2000, you end up with a new
combined image, and usually a gif file. However, you can overlap and layer
objects in 2003 and 2007 without this happening. However, if you group a
text box with an image, that can result in a combined image. Ungrouping can
fix the problem.

DavidF

 

[Spike]

The bottom animated gif advertisement:
The last four frames have a different frame rate than the first 8 frames
I of the last four is even faster then the other 3

The first frame rates are all the same
Suggest that your try to change the last four frame rates to equal the other
8
See if that helps

Spike

 

[Spike]

I think this is his mouse image:

http://www.avonlakealumni.org/index_files/image050.jpg

Spike

 

[Rob Giordano [MS MVP]]

actually that one is working for me...although it does have a serious glitch
in the loop.
I thought the golden surfer mouse was supposed to move.


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Rob Giordano
Microsoft MVP Expression

 

[Rob Giordano [MS MVP]]

oh ok.
the one beneath that is animated, but looks googy because you've scaled it
down...also there's a bad glitch in the loop.



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Rob Giordano
Microsoft MVP Expression