Microsoft Publisher

[ebscreen]

I've received 2 .pub files over the last two days for quotes.

Microsoft does not make a Publisher viewer like they do with
their other programs. You can download a trial of the actual
software (300MB) that expires in 60 days though. Ugh.
(Update, won't work on XP too)

What I'm trying to say is, can anyone save these out as PDF files
for me? Thanks.

[Frog]

This page lists three resources that should be able to convert for you.

[Fresh Baked Printing]

I have MS Publisher. I can try it.

[Frog]

Hey Sean, I just got one of yours here! They must be fishing the local waters.
I told him that these files are not good for most of us.

Hey Bobby, do you print polypropylene as well? 

[Fresh Baked Printing]

Publisher is awesome. All the real pros use it

[ebscreen]

Yep, forgot about Zamzar.

Andy, they're willing to go canvas as well. Jus' sayin...

[Sbrem]

Publisher is awesome. All the real pros use it

Oh yes, we use publisher and MacDraw...

How about asking the person who sent it to you to save it as a .pdf? By printing to file?

Steve

[Frog]

I predict that anyone who can do that, could have saved it in a better file type in the first place, but Microsoft has had these instructions for years

Of course, those of us with CorelDRAW and no Acrobat are probably going to have problems any way.

btw, at least one of eb's files was real trash, at least the one I got and converted. Looked like some sort of low res bit map conversion when converted and opened in Reader, and useless in CorelDRAW for any sort of manipulation. I'm glad that I probably won't be messin' with it.

[ebscreen]

Yeah, asked to save to a PDF, got another PUB file...

[Homer]

oh yeah? I got an AI today file that was "designed by my daughter, she's a designer ya know" and it was 10.5 million nodes, rgb, cmyk, scaled to fit a napkin. . .and ugly as hell. . .I cringe when a customer tells me they have a designer in the family, usually means I'm getting a crap jpg designed in photoshop elements or word art. . .on another note, we have a wholesale customer that designs in word. . honest to jeebus. . .freakin word. . .they have been doing it for the past ten years, don't see a reason to buy a "fancy art drawin' program". . .Word does everything we need it to do. . .blows my mind. . .sometimes I would prefer a napkin. . .

[Evo]

designs in word. . honest to jeebus. . .freakin word.

I got an Excel file once. Jpg's with text lined up top and bottom. It actually came out really good once I got them to email me the 4 different goofy fonts they were using.

Haven't gotten anything designed in Notepad yet.

[tpitman]

Publisher is awesome. All the real pros use it

That's what Microsoft would have you believe. Take those files to an offset print shop if you want to be an object of ridicule, although the newer pdf workflow software for direct-to-plate systems larger shops are installing make fixing the RGB color mess that is meant to be spot color less of a hassle. When I had to do that crap manually it always incorporated the uttering of oaths.

I seem to recall getting an ".ai" file where they'd just changed the extension. Plenty of photoshop files created at 72dpi since that's the default, then simply adjusted in the "image size" menu to 300 dpi. Business cards laid out in Excel, Word files with multiple columns of tabular data where they keep hitting the tab key on lines with less info to line up to the next column instead of learning to actually set tabs so when it's brought into InDesign or QuarkXpress you don't have to go into each and every line and manually delete all the extra "tabs" . . .
The abuse of software in the hands of the moronic and lazy continues apace . . .

[Fresh Baked Printing]

Publisher is awesome. All the real pros use it

You guys that I was being sarcastic, right?

[mk162]

Evo, I've gotten excel files too.  I don't get how people won't lay down a couple hundred bucks for a decent program.  It makes life so much easier.

Fresh, let me get this straight, you DON'T think publisher is an awesome program?

[Denis Kolar]

I work in a graphic department of a packaging company. You guys should see what I get every day. We have a policy that we do not accept the JPG files as a art file. We ask a customer for a vector file or at least a PDF file that we can work with.
Hour later we get the same frikin' JPG file saved to a PDF and sent to us.
Another think that I hate is a f'ing Quark, I HATE that software. I had to call customer service to activate the software again because I got a new mac, if you ever have to do that you will learn what the REAL PAIN is. You get the call center in Pakistan, and the CS rep has to tell you 30-some numbers to punch in the activation screen. I'm a foreign guy, and my English is not "perfecto", but c'mon: sorry, can you repeat, again please, was that a three, what? come again, five? oh it was nine, sorry................like that for 5 minutes for 30-some numbers. After having a functional trial for 30 days (I was afraid to call them to activate) I called them and now I have a copy of software that doe not work after they have "activated it". I call them back:"Guys, now it is not working?" their reply was: "sorry Sir, but for a phone support we will have to charge you $39.95!"
After that I was not polite anymore.