Line spacing seems to change when I "preview" web page

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dsurrett

I have created my web page in Publisher and lined everything up exactly as I
want it to display. I have text boxes surrounding pictures, etc. As soon as I
preview the web site, the line spacing seems to decrease almost by half and
my previously aligned paragraphs are now out of alignment with my pictures.
It doesn't matter if I'm using a single text box or connected text boxes -
the result is the same every time. How do I get Publisher to keep the line
spacing in tact when converting it to a web page?
 
I

Ian

Using tables wherever possible might help but if you can change to FrontPage
or some other web creation software you would do far better. Not a real
solution I know but long term it will stop you going crazy.
 
D

dsurrett

Ok, thanks.

Sounds like I may be better off using Frontpage or some other design tool,
as recommended by the previous post. I really don't want to give up my fonts
or pictures for the sake of getting them to convert correctly. Thanks for the
info.
 
D

DavidF

The problems you are encountering are most likely because Publisher cannot
convert some print formatting to html. For example, you cannot use word wrap
around an image in Pub 2002 - 2007 in a web page (it worked in Pub 2000).
Also, if you are using a non-web friendly font, it will either be converted
to a web font, or to an image. Generally you should only use font size and
color formatting in any text box, and no paragraph formatting. Sometimes
overlapping design elements change the appearance of those elements when
converted to html, or may convert to an image. Bottom line, web documents
are a different media than print documents, and you will just have to
experiment with what will convert to html and what won't. Perhaps pull the
different design elements off into the scratch area and add back one at a
time, doing a web page preview each time, to discover what will work...what
won't.

In the future, please post web questions in the web group:
microsoft.public.publisher.webdesign

DavidF
 
R

Rob Giordano \(Crash\)

Doesn't matter what you use, the web only supports a limited number of fonts
(Google: web safe fonts). So unless your viewers have your fancy fonts
installed on their machines the will see defaulted fonts instead. Unless you
convert your fonts to images - and that's only recommended for limited use;
like small headings. And, since search engines don't read images you'd want
to keep that to a minimum.

--

Rob Giordano
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage





| Ok, thanks.
|
| Sounds like I may be better off using Frontpage or some other design tool,
| as recommended by the previous post. I really don't want to give up my
fonts
| or pictures for the sake of getting them to convert correctly. Thanks for
the
| info.
|
| "DavidF" wrote:
|
| > The problems you are encountering are most likely because Publisher
cannot
| > convert some print formatting to html. For example, you cannot use word
wrap
| > around an image in Pub 2002 - 2007 in a web page (it worked in Pub
2000).
| > Also, if you are using a non-web friendly font, it will either be
converted
| > to a web font, or to an image. Generally you should only use font size
and
| > color formatting in any text box, and no paragraph formatting. Sometimes
| > overlapping design elements change the appearance of those elements when
| > converted to html, or may convert to an image. Bottom line, web
documents
| > are a different media than print documents, and you will just have to
| > experiment with what will convert to html and what won't. Perhaps pull
the
| > different design elements off into the scratch area and add back one at
a
| > time, doing a web page preview each time, to discover what will
work...what
| > won't.
| >
| > In the future, please post web questions in the web group:
| > microsoft.public.publisher.webdesign
| >
| > DavidF
| >
| > | > >I have created my web page in Publisher and lined everything up exactly
as
| > >I
| > > want it to display. I have text boxes surrounding pictures, etc. As
soon
| > > as I
| > > preview the web site, the line spacing seems to decrease almost by
half
| > > and
| > > my previously aligned paragraphs are now out of alignment with my
| > > pictures.
| > > It doesn't matter if I'm using a single text box or connected text
boxes -
| > > the result is the same every time. How do I get Publisher to keep the
line
| > > spacing in tact when converting it to a web page?
| >
| >
| >
 

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