Publisher 2007

[Simon]

I am testing out Office 2007, including Publisher 2007. I have been using
Publisher 2000 for years to produce a 20 page newsletter (double sided
booklet).
I have tried using Publisher 2007 to produce our latest newsletter and had
some major problems you should look at in this Beta.
1) When I use the save option to save my publication in Publisher 2000
format it fails to work correctly. Images in the publication are lost and
when I open the resulting file in Puiblisher 2000 it causes it to crash.
2) When I try to print my publication to A3 (double sided) the pages come
out incorrectly. I simply cannot do what Publisher 2000 allows me to do. For
example if I want to print the first double sided page back to back there is
no way I can find to do this in Publisher 2007 unless I print all 20 pages.
As far as I am concerned, until this is fixed or you provide some help
screens to show how to do this I will be going back to Publisher 2000.
The only improvement I can see is that you have managed to keep the
resulting file sizes down to a more reasonable size. Presonally this is only
a minor improvement. The printing process is far more important and currently
is a disaster.

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[Mary Sauer]

Feedback downloads
http://sas.office.microsoft.com/

Help
http://officebeta.iponet.net/en-us/FX100647101033.aspx

I have printed a sample with no problem, setting up the page according to your
specifications. When you open the print dialogue after you create your
newsletter there is a choice to print selected pages (an improvement from other
versions). What do you mean when you say the pages come out incorrectly?

I don't know what to tell you about 2000 crashing, I cannot duplicate this.
Could be a video/graphics driver issue.

 

[Ed Bennett]

I have tried using Publisher 2007 to produce our latest newsletter and had
some major problems you should look at in this Beta.

I might be able to look into them once I get my laptop back from the
shop. Note that I am not a Microsoft representative, nor do any
Microsoft reps really frequent these groups that much.

1) When I use the save option to save my publication in Publisher 2000
format it fails to work correctly. Images in the publication are lost and
when I open the resulting file in Puiblisher 2000 it causes it to crash.

There has always been a degree of formatting loss when saving as an
earlier version file from a newer version. Publisher 2000 crashing when
loading the resulting files has been known to happen with Publisher 2002
and 2003; it is not a fault in those versions, it is a problem caused by
other elements of the system (such as the video driver and antivirus
application).

2) When I try to print my publication to A3 (double sided) the pages come
out incorrectly. I simply cannot do what Publisher 2000 allows me to do. For
example if I want to print the first double sided page back to back there is
no way I can find to do this in Publisher 2007 unless I print all 20 pages.

Like I said, I can't test this at the moment, but I'm sure that this IS
possible.

An easy enough workaround would be to use the Save As PDF feature to
export a PDF and then print the first page(s) of the resulting file.

The only improvement I can see is that you have managed to keep the
resulting file sizes down to a more reasonable size. Presonally this is only
a minor improvement.

You're in a minority. What in Publisher 2000 was a 16MB file can now be
a 300k file. That was a major flaw in early versions of Publisher.

The printing process is far more important and currently is a disaster.

From my experiences of the beta, I will have to respectfully disagree.
There have been vast improvements in the printing process in 2007
Publisher (some things for which there were no workarounds in earlier
versions, and some things made vastly easier). One minor issue that is
easily worked around is hardly grounds for saying the entire subsystem
is a disaster.