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[tombeard1213]

I have created a web site using Publisher 07 where it looks good. When I look
at the site in the web page preview the spacing of text is all jammed up and
it looks bad! How can I make the published page look identical to the page in
publisher?

 

[Don Schmidt]

I'm a Publisher 2000 user and 2007 may be a bit different but see if you
have under Tools, Design Checker. If so, run it to identify problems.

 

[DavidF]

Hey Don,

That is one thing that hasn't changed. All versions since 2000 still have a
design checker...and running it first is always a good idea when
troubleshooting a problem with Publisher. I forgot that until recently.

DavidF

 

[DavidF]

You probably can't. You can use some formatting with print publications that
have no equivalent in a web publication. They are two different mediums.
Typically when text does not look the same it is because a user has used
custom line spacing, indents, bulleted lists, a non-web font, or other
paragraph print formatting that does not translate to HTML. Without seeing
the issues, my best advice is to remove all the special formatting and use a
web font, and get the text box to the point that a web page preview is close
to the same. Then you can add back some formatting a little at a time,
testing as you go, to see what you can and cannot do in HTML.

DavidF

 

[barrie]

I had the same problem but the fix was easy (Publisher 2003). Go to the text
box and highlight the text. Then click on Format and select Paragraph. Use
the Indents and Spacing tab to insert your own settings for "before
paragraphs" "after paragraphs" and "between lines." Using Verdana typeface,
I selected 4, 5 and 1.5, respectively, and even though it looked different in
publisher, it looked fine when I did a page preview. Just play around with
those settings and you'll be fine. I had to go back and forth alot between
the publisher page with the formatting control box and web page preview in
order to get the visual effect I wanted. But once I figured it out, I
applied it to every text box. Good luck!

 

[Mike Koewler]

Barrie,

Did you preview in IE, Firefox, Opera and AOL? Different browsers handle
spacing differently and what may look perfect to you in one browser may
look atrocious in a different one.

Mike