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Lee Blevins
Brian Kvalheim said:
I guess you're just a moron Brian.
I have been involved in computing since the inception of the personal
computer.
I have been involved in support as a profession for many years.
I have never had difficulty in presenting clear and concise answers to
questions.
Whenever questioned about a particular software download I don't suggest
somejust go to Sourceforge and start looking. You do apparently. It just
seems a common courtesy to supply the direct link.
You seem to avoid doing that.
My suspicion is that is by design.
What was so hard about actually pasting the url to the link?
Secondly, this is a link to Office 2003.
I didn't purchase Office 2003 and don't intend to.
Is there a problem with MS offereing the patch clearly to people who
only purchased Publisher?
They do sell Publisher as a standalone package. I bought it.
The description of the problem is consistent with Microsoft's denial of
bugs. Saying the problem happens with 500 meg files or larger.
Total bull crap.
The CMYK composite printing with Publisher was fucked with just about
any document. It rarely worked.
The performance of the product at my shop showed it couldn't have been
very well tested before release.
Perhaps the testing was done by people like you.
That would explain a lot.
But my new policy on Publisher seems to be working.
It goes like this.
You [the customer with the Publisher doc] pays for every minute of time
I interact with your document even if no output is created. It is not my
fault Microsoft made crappy software and I cannot lose money playing
with it. If you [the customer] does not like this, call Microsoft and
complain. But you have to pay me. I don't work for free.
On the other hand I can supply your contact info and they can send them
all to you. Please supply address, phone, etc.
The last publisher job I did I invited the printer to come sit at the PC
and show us how we were doing something wrong.
He was amazed. Every other program on the PC (XP) was working perfectly
and Publisher wouldn't create output. I explained to him that I would
have to charge for the time I had spent. He left and he doesn't send me
publisher files anymore.
It must be a good decision because my sales are up and my profitability
is up.
Feel free to use this as an example of how a company can improve it's
bottom lime by not taking in crappy low end bottom feeding shit.
To make my point very clear let me state it this way:
Publisher = Low end bottom feeding shit.
If that's the market you find yourself in and supporting, I suggest you
re-evaluate your business model.
I have.
I no longer take in Publisher without having a customer sign a release
that they will pay for every minute of time we spend even if there is no
output.
I suggest the National Association of Printers and Lithographers take my
release form and distribute it.
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