Publisher 2002 limitations

[JEM]

PROJECT: Move directly or via MS Word, 110 correctly formatted pages of OCR
(OmniPage pro 9 ) output into PUBLISHER BOOKLET STYLE PAGES OF SAME DESIRED
FORMAT (8.5 high x 5.5 wide) WITH PAGE NUMBER FOOTERS.

QUESTION: Are there ways to overcome the following problems, and, does
Publisher 2003 solve any of them?

1. Publisher 2002 maxes out at 50 pp. (Will Publisher 2003 go to 110 or
more?)

2. Cannot set the first page (start at) number or set the jump-to page
number of the half-way points, for printing and binding as multiple
sub-booklets. (Only solution I know is to put page numbers text boxes in
manually on every page.)

3. Must reformat/reposition the text boxes on EVERY imported page.
Publisher resets all imported pages from the desired size ( 8.5 high x 5.5
), to its default 11 high x 8.6 wide page size and associated guide
positions), when importing a formatted Word document (.doc or .rtf ).

James Marks
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Ed Bennett]

1. Publisher 2002 maxes out at 50 pp. (Will Publisher 2003 go to
110 or more?)

I've created documents of more than 50 pages in Publisher 2002. In all
recent versions of Publisher at least, the only limit on the number of pages
is the amount of memory that you have - unless you're talking about Word
Document Import? (I haven't tested that, but I don't see why that should
max out at 50 pages anyway)

2. Cannot set the first page (start at) number or set the jump-to
page number of the half-way points, for printing and binding as
multiple sub-booklets. (Only solution I know is to put page numbers
text boxes in manually on every page.)

Insert > Section.

3. Must reformat/reposition the text boxes on EVERY imported page.
Publisher resets all imported pages from the desired size ( 8.5 high
x 5.5 ), to its default 11 high x 8.6 wide page size and associated
guide positions), when importing a formatted Word document (.doc or
.rtf ).

Publisher inherits its page size from the printer's default. If you set
your printer default page size to 8.5x5.5 while you do the import, you may
save yourself some work.

 

[JEM]

Thank you for your time and suggestions on importing a word doc into Publisher.
Re: my Q3 "Must reformat/reposition the text boxes on EVERY imported page."
Status: Some improvement but import page size still full letter 8.5x11 and
Text boxes do not resize correctly when page size is reset to half-letter.

System Changes:
a. I bought & installed Publisher 2003 upgrade
b. I set the print page size to "Half Letter" = 5.5 wide x 8.5 high in the
default settings for the two (default and alternate) printers I have installed
c. I made sure the Print Preferences paper sizes were "half-letter" for both
the importing Word document and pre-import Publisher page, prior to
importing/pasting etc.
d. I set the Layout guides in the Word and Publisher receiving document to
equal those desired.
e. I ran the import twice: with and without text boxes of desired size
defined in the receiving Publisher document.
f. I also Cut and Pasted the Word doc into the Publisher document
g. I also "Opened" the Word document with the Publisher document set up as
above.
Note: I also made the above page size change by simply setting the Publisher
layout to "Booklet", before and after the import, both with and without
changing the default print page size to half-letter.

Best Result: was with importing:
All 108 pages of the Word doc come in in correct order and paragraph
formatting into 108 corresponding Publisher pages - -
But the imported pages are at full letter 8.5x11 page size and full page
(8.5x11) text boxes.
I've started reformatting manually but wold live to have an automated
solution...
Any further suggestions will be apprreciated.
Jim Marks

 

[Mary Sauer]

Your printer should print 5.5 X 8.5. Is this the size paper you are using? When you
designate a custom size paper for printing, then this is the size you should use,
otherwise you will have your text box in the middle of a 11 X 8.5 page.
I'd go for the booklet. On page one create the text box, on page two create another
text box, create a text box link on page one to page two. Paste the Word document on
page one, Publisher automatically adds pages.