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MS Office Forum / Publisher / Commercial Printing / May 2006My cmcl printer can't print from pub as pdf anymore - why?
To .pub or not to .pub. and why not .pub. These are my question, and I have made our groups's newsletter for a long time in MS Publisher, all versions. I then take it to the commercial printer as a .pdf file, as they prefer. This last newsletter, had a lot of photos and the com. printer says we made it too big and that it took all day for their machine to process our .pdf file and even then it was not good a quality and was barely printable by their commercial printing machines. They said I needed to change programs because we've grown too big for MS Publisher and need to use QUARK or several other names I wrote down here somewhere, but I dont' want to remember them, because I don't want to change from MS Publisher. I really do prefer to use MS Publisher. It's an easy to use, very powerful and fast program that allowed us to be able to continue to create Newsletters and other productions to such a level that we can now (until now) can create a 24 pages newsletter. So, my question is - huh? What are the printers saying? How did we grow too big for MS Publisher? Why can't the commercial printers print from a .pub file (they say they can open it, but no print from it in their commercial grade machines? Why can't they print a photo rich .pdf file? I have hit a wall I can't understand. So, can someone please point me to a PATCH/FIX/PAGE that can help our professional printer print our packed publisher productions - please? Thanx in advance, Drix Maybe you can get help here Commercial printing http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/CH062524641033.aspx Commercial printing help http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/FX010833971033.aspx Might be time to use a new print shop. Locate a Microsoft Publisher Printer http://mspublisher.saltmine.com/printerSearch.aspx  SignatureMary Sauer MSFT MVP http://office.microsoft.com/ http://msauer.mvps.org/ news://msnews.microsoft.com > To .pub or not to .pub. and why not .pub. These are my question, and > I have made our groups's newsletter for a long time in MS Publisher, all [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > Thanx in advance, > Drix > To .pub or not to .pub. and why not .pub. These are my question, and > I have made our groups's newsletter for a long time in MS Publisher, all [quoted text clipped - 33 lines] > Thanx in advance, > Drix From the point of view of a printer that prints a lot of jobs from Publisher files, I can see the problem. Publisher is easy to use and "powerful", but it also lets you easily create pages with effects that will be difficult to print. The "output engine" of Publisher, i.e. the part of the software that generates the PostScript that makes the PDF is not, even in the latest version, geared up to commercial printing. So it is possible to create a page which looks great on the screen, prints OK on a desktop inkjet, and is almost impossible to output to plate via PDF. It is usually Publisher's handling of transparent objects which causes the problems. Your printer might have more success by running separations direct from Publisher, rather than from PDFs, but in our experience, lots of transparency = lots of problems. There are no real problems in using Publisher for multi-page, image-intensive publications. We run 12-36pp newsletters every month from customers' Publisher files, although if we are starting such a job from scratch ourselves, we would choose InDesign rather than Publisher, because it will make our life simpler at the output stage. It is not the size of the publication or the number of photographs which causes trouble. You can produce "clean" PDFs by trying to avoid the use of transparency wherever possible. One easy check is to take a look at the PDF file you have created. If it displays slowly on the screen, with the page image appearing to be built up bit by bit, then you have transparent elements on your page and may have difficultiies at the output stage. Pages which display quickly in Adobe Reader are more likely to be trouble-free. It's a bit of a rough and ready test, but I find it a good guide. Signature-------------------------------------------------------- Chris Griffiths email: chris@stroudprint.co.uk StroudPrint phone: 01453 764251 Gloucestershire, England fax: 01453 752916 -------------------------------------------------------- I v y d e n e A s s o c i a t e s L t d -------------------------------------------------------- |
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