EPS Prepress For Large Format Graphics From MS Publisher -- Yikes!

[RSD99]

"rhys" posted:
"... the guy who is a VAR of Publisher has this

troll-off-his-meds [aka ... " °°°MS°Publisher°°° "]

as his staunchest advocate? ..."

HOWL !


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[Lee Blevins]

Lee "I have already lost too much money as a result of this program" only
because you are just another failed poorly educated printer.
To damn lazy to do some basic research, probably to dumb to be able to learn
how to work with it properly, and to damn dumb to ask others who know the
right questions. Kiss your jobs goodbye by the day. The Indians and Asians
are more than happy to take all the work you yankees send them. I am sure
they do not care what format it is in because they will be well trained and
educated and if they do not have the knowledge they will go and obtain it
from somebody who knows. Don't worry America one day soon you will have a
Chinese head of state running yankee land. They just about own it now, so
wont take long to take over the board.

I've never had a kill list but it's starting to look like it's time.

 

[Lee Blevins]

Lee, where are you located? Microsoft's Commercial Printing Team will
visit your commercial print shop if you are in the Washington/Seattle area.
Outside of that, I don't know. I would have to check.

Rhode Island.

But seriously, all this work can be done at your location.

The problem you have is getting real world publisher documents to check
out.

Perhaps you should start an free local service where you convert
publlisher docs to workable PDFs. Maybe even setup a web site where
Publisher service bureaus can post problem docs and you have a couple
wizzes there that fix them for output.

A simple form system where a user fills in the printer driver, os
version and all the particulars.

Then M$ gets the test data to try to output and sees the problems.

I'm sympathetic to the problem. I've worked in support for a
software/system company and there was never a real devoted effort to get
real world data or commit resources to such an endeavor.

Then after you get the data, you need a culture cleansing at M$.

For the engineers to have such a pathetic program after so many years
there needs to be public spankings. Start in all departments.

Marketing, engineering, sales, etc.

 

[JMorris]

Mac,

Thanks for the note. I had no idea when I submitted the question that
it would trigger a 70 reply debate. Sounds like it was a good
question.

So, for the record, thanks to everyone, I guess. Here's what
happened:

The two posters and the banner were ALL done in JPEG. And then banner
was vinyl cut and the posters ink jetted. Apparently the shop had no
problem with the JPEGs. And the results were spectacular, if I do say
so myself.

So, why do I use Publisher rather than something with proper pre-press
etc.? We are a small company with smarts. And we aren't graphics
professionals and don't want to spend dollars and time on Illustrator
etc.

However, we've taken a few basic graphics courses and have done quite
a bit of good looking basic stuff over the years (you can't go wrong
with a limited number of fonts, a sense of proportion and three
columns . . .)

MS Publisher is something one almost knows already if one knows Word
well. And it does a pretty good job actually in a very short period
of time. There's just that pesky little pre-press problem.

John

 

[Budget Print Center]

Glad you were able to muck through all that mess.

I have had issues with publisher and prepress in the past and with
perserverance to learn (like with any app.) and some well given assistance
from the regulars here (you too, David), Publisher, though not my working
application of premier choice, has gradually become a blessing to my shop
because few local printers have taken the time and chewed on the learning
curve. I am happy, my boss is happy and, most importantly our customers are
satisfied.