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MSoft Publisher to Word?
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Jim Dell wrote: Wolf K wrote: On 2018-08-11 07:22, mechanic wrote: On Fri, 10 Aug 2018 09:25:38 -0400, Wolf K wrote: Sometimes people need to be educated. Word is not the right tool and they should be told as much. Above opinion by R Wieser IIRC. Noit me! +1 I bet that goes down well! Depends on how you tell them. "You ought to do it this way" doesn't work, obviously. "Here's another way of doing what you want, may be easier for you" usually does. Try Opening the file with the free LibreOffice. It worked for me. Jim There is a sample Publisher file here. https://cdn.online-convert.com/examp...ub/example.pub Pull it into your copy of LibreOffice and tell us what you think. Is it preserving the look and feel ? Can you do anything useful in there ? I've tried it here. Â*Â* Paul Yes it's looks good here. You can probably do anything in Libre Draw that Publisher can. You'll have a little learning curve. Jim |
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MSoft Publisher to Word?
On Fri, 10 Aug 2018 20:22:42 -0400, nospam
wrote: In article , Peter Jason wrote: Because the customer does not want to learn PDF formatting and alteration. EG, have you tried to simply convert a PDF page of dense text into two columns? Nobody knows how! Yet MS Word does it in a two steps. use the proper tools and it's no steps. the computer does it for you. I've never figured it out. I've given up in despair! |
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MSoft Publisher to Word?
On Sat, 11 Aug 2018 16:50:27 -0400, GS
wrote: On 2018-08-11 06:57, GS wrote: On Fri, 10 Aug 2018 21:00:53 +0100, ? Good Guy ? wrote: On 10/08/2018 17:52, GS wrote: So then.., why not just design for those people in MS Word??? Because he's not as intelligent as you are;* His IQ is 19; your IQ is 20;* There's a marginal difference and so you have marginal advantage over him. Lest the blind lead the blind, I point out that Publisher has a better "table" formation, and allows greater flexibility in moving pictures around the cells.* Better Text Box too. MSWord cannot seem to form a 4-cell table where the margins go to the ends of the sheet, but Publisher does. My customers are all out to save money on label printing for their short-run deliveries.* These labels are of thin PET "laser" stock (A4) lanced to 16/8/4/2 per A4 sheet, and work well in color laser printers.* They do not wrinkle in damp weather. Commercial printing companies want runs of 500 or more, and this is impossible with hundreds of label types.** With the above system the customer is burdened with stock of but one A4 sheet. My preference is to use MS Excel or LO Calc. Excel has more granular control positioning images/shapes/objects than Calc does, but both offer superior 'table' layouts over the other components of MSO/LO hands down! Note that anything you do in either spreadsheet app can easily be dropped into their respective word processing counterpart without loss of quality or content by either linking or embedding. Try this: https://www.avery.com/software/partners/microsoft-word Good luck, I've been using Avery's label products/software for about 20 years. Awesome stuff for available label templates. I do custom labels design more than standard, mostly on clear full-size sheets which get cut out using a plotter since they are usually irregular shape. Using a spreadsheet configured like graph paper makes designing very easy; - embedding the design in a word processor is just for client convenience for their own printing. I can print or plot up to tabloid size paper; - printer has pass-thru capability (HP7610). I use Avery stock for business-card printing. They're way too expensive for everything else. |
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MSoft Publisher to Word?
On Sat, 11 Aug 2018 16:50:27 -0400, GS
wrote: On 2018-08-11 06:57, GS wrote: On Fri, 10 Aug 2018 21:00:53 +0100, ? Good Guy ? wrote: On 10/08/2018 17:52, GS wrote: So then.., why not just design for those people in MS Word??? Because he's not as intelligent as you are;* His IQ is 19; your IQ is 20;* There's a marginal difference and so you have marginal advantage over him. Lest the blind lead the blind, I point out that Publisher has a better "table" formation, and allows greater flexibility in moving pictures around the cells.* Better Text Box too. MSWord cannot seem to form a 4-cell table where the margins go to the ends of the sheet, but Publisher does. My customers are all out to save money on label printing for their short-run deliveries.* These labels are of thin PET "laser" stock (A4) lanced to 16/8/4/2 per A4 sheet, and work well in color laser printers.* They do not wrinkle in damp weather. Commercial printing companies want runs of 500 or more, and this is impossible with hundreds of label types.** With the above system the customer is burdened with stock of but one A4 sheet. My preference is to use MS Excel or LO Calc. Excel has more granular control positioning images/shapes/objects than Calc does, but both offer superior 'table' layouts over the other components of MSO/LO hands down! Note that anything you do in either spreadsheet app can easily be dropped into their respective word processing counterpart without loss of quality or content by either linking or embedding. Try this: https://www.avery.com/software/partners/microsoft-word Good luck, I've been using Avery's label products/software for about 20 years. Awesome stuff for available label templates. I do custom labels design more than standard, mostly on clear full-size sheets which get cut out using a plotter since they are usually irregular shape. Using a spreadsheet configured like graph paper makes designing very easy; - embedding the design in a word processor is just for client convenience for their own printing. I can print or plot up to tabloid size paper; - printer has pass-thru capability (HP7610). I use Avery stock for business-card printing. They're way too expensive for everything else. Seems VistaPrint is even cheaper when you compare qty/ink/card costs. FWIW: (beyond the scope here) I used to use Avery stock for address/product/shipping labels during the 80's/90's but when the custom label designing took off it demanded more decal-like media and so clear labels and adhesive-backed vinyl became the standard materials that clients wanted. Finding sizes was the main challenge and so large sheets and/or rolls became common inventory simply due to them being most convenient. Common label stock is pre-cut to label size; my custom decals got cut-to-form on a plotter which eventually evolved to using a 3-axis 40x60 cnc table for the sheet/roll stock. -- Garry Free usenet access at http://www.eternal-september.org Classic VB Users Regroup! comp.lang.basic.visual.misc microsoft.public.vb.general.discussion |
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