Inserting PDFs

[Laura Wright]

Is there any way at all to insert a PDF file into a
Publisher 2003 document (in Windows 98)??? The most
intuitive way to me would be Insert, Picture and then
choose your PDF file, but it always asks what kind of
file I want to convert it FROM and pdf isn't an option.
I found a MS webpage that lists all types of graphic
files that Pub. can accept and PDF is not one of them.
Why the heck not???? I do a newsletter for a club and
the most common way that people want to send me ads is
PDF files. I know someone who I think has an older Pub.
version and she says PDFs insert no problem for her. The
only way I've found is to open the PDF in Acrobat, and
then 'save as' a different type of file.

On a partly related note, has anyone tried to insert an
EPS file and got nothing but a blank picture frame? Why
is it that some EPSs give me no trouble and others do?
I'm half wondering if it's a Mac/PC thing.

 

[JoAnn Paules]

No because you can't run Pub 2003 on a Windows 98 system. It requires
Windows® 2000 with Service Pack 3 (SP3), Windows XP, or later.

Assuming you have something mistyped in that................ .pdfs are not
"pictures". What I do is to save my .pdf files as a graphic and insert it
but you have to have Acrobat to do that. As for the other person who does it
in a different version of Publisher, have you tried asking her what steps
she takes?

Can't help you with the .eps question. I don't use that file format. No
reason - I just don't.

 

[Ed Bennett]

A small child turns to Ed, and exclaims: "Look! Look! A post from Laura

Is there any way at all to insert a PDF file into a
Publisher 2003 document (in Windows 98)???

As JoAnn said, there is no way to insert anything into Publisher 2003 on
Windows 98, because Publisher 2003 will not under any circumstances run
under Windows 98.

As for inserting PDFs, no version of Publisher will insert a PDF file.
You need to convert the PDF to an image file that Publisher will accept,
such as EPS (see below), PNG or TIF.
GhostScript (when used in conjunction with GSView) can do this.
(http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/ and http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/
are the links for these two nice products)

I know someone who I think has an older Pub.
version and she says PDFs insert no problem for her.

Cool! She must have some secret version of Publisher that only a handful of
people ever bought and was never advertised, publicised, or announced, and
had secret features such as inserting PDFs, merging OLE fields, and
customizable keyboard shortcuts. Can she eBay it to me?

The
only way I've found is to open the PDF in Acrobat, and
then 'save as' a different type of file.

Congratulations, you found the workaround http://tinyurl.com/5lrq5

On a partly related note, has anyone tried to insert an
EPS file and got nothing but a blank picture frame? Why
is it that some EPSs give me no trouble and others do?

When you insert an EPS into Publisher all you see on-screen is the
low-resolution TIFF preview embedded within the file. If the file has no
preview, you see no image. The full high-resolution image prints when you
print your publication to a PostScript printer (such as many laser printer
drivers and most PDF-making apps). You will not see the full-resolution
image when printing to a printer driver that does not have PostScript turned
on.

 

[Laura Wright]

No because you can't run Pub 2003 on a Windows 98
system. It requires

Windows® 2000 with Service Pack 3 (SP3), Windows XP, or

later.

Well isn't that the weirdest thing! I AM running
Publisher 2003 on Windows 98. I just got it a year or so
ago, so I'm pretty sure it is 2003. Wow, gotta double
check that when I get home. I'll let you know.

As for the other person who does it
in a different version of Publisher, have you tried asking her what steps
she takes?

I don't remember her exact words, but from what I
remember she just uses insert, picture. But maybe I
didn't remember that correctly.

Thanks!

Laura

 

[Laura Wright]

When you insert an EPS into Publisher all you see on- screen is the
low-resolution TIFF preview embedded within the file. If the file has no
preview, you see no image. The full high-resolution image prints when you
print your publication to a PostScript printer (such as many laser printer
drivers and most PDF-making apps). You will not see the full-resolution
image when printing to a printer driver that does not have PostScript turned
on.

Ah, that explains why I got nothing when I tried to print
it (thinking perhaps it was some sort of memory saving
feature, as it was a huge file). But I gather that had I
taken it to the printshop where I get the newsletter
printed, it probably would have been fine.

Thanks!

Laura

 

[Eric]

On a partly related note, has anyone tried to insert an
EPS file and got nothing but a blank picture frame? Why
is it that some EPSs give me no trouble and others do?
I'm half wondering if it's a Mac/PC thing.

Laura,

I've never had ANY luck getting Publisher to read EPS files.

However, the free program XNView <http://www.xnview.com> seems to be
better at reading "difficult" EPS files and you can use it to view
them and convert them to a format that works.

Eric