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MS Office Forum / Publisher / Web Design / January 2005Problems w/ Preview and Viewing on Design PC
I finished a web design in Publisher 2003 and everything is great... with one exception. When I try to preview the site on the PC it was designed on, all the alignment is lost and all the pages looked jumbled. When I publish to web and take the HTML files to any other PC they look correct. When I try to view these files from the same CD or thumb drive (rather than within publisher), they still appear misaligned. It doesn't matter what my screen resolution is set to. I have tried it on a friends identical PC ant it appears as it should. Very odd... Any Ideas? Post a url so I can review the design and source. Also state at what resolutions each machine is using and what browser each machine is using. David Bartosik - [MSFT MVP] www.publishermvps.com www.davidbartosik.com > I finished a web design in Publisher 2003 and everything is great... with one > exception. When I try to preview the site on the PC it was designed on, all [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > resolution is set to. I have tried it on a friends identical PC ant it > appears as it should. Very odd... Any Ideas? David, I have sent you an email with the first page attached and a more detailed description. Thanks > Post a url so I can review the design and source. > Also state at what resolutions each machine is using and what browser each [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > resolution is set to. I have tried it on a friends identical PC ant it > > appears as it should. Very odd... Any Ideas? I was finally able to host my site and would be happy to email you the link. I'd rather not post the link as I have a limited bandwidth allocation. To add to the confusion, on my PC the pages display fine in Netscape and Firefox/Mozilla but still display misaligned in IE > Post a url so I can review the design and source. > Also state at what resolutions each machine is using and what browser each [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > resolution is set to. I have tried it on a friends identical PC ant it > > appears as it should. Very odd... Any Ideas? Based on your details I was able to identify this as something that has come up one other time. But we never could resolve it. just fyi, the preview is the html so the preview will be the same as the published. There was a customer that had the same issue you are reporting. He also had a Dell laptop. The html output would display as designed on all machines he'd review it except on his laptop a logo an a few other items shifted somewhat. I had his pub file and never could reproduce it. I had to have him send me screen shots of his claims. Microsoft could never repro either, something that is required for them to pursue it. The only guess was that it was a graphics display driver related matter on his laptop. You said that you knew someone with the same Dell laptop as yours, I'd compare what graphic cards and drivers are on each of them, see if they differ. That's all I have for you on this. David Bartosik - [MSFT MVP] www.publishermvps.com www.davidbartosik.com >I was finally able to host my site and would be happy to email you the >link. [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] >> > resolution is set to. I have tried it on a friends identical PC ant it >> > appears as it should. Very odd... Any Ideas? David, I don't think I was the customer you are speaking about, but I did ask about why the HTML code, using Pub 2000, that was generated from my Dell laptop, was different than the HTML generated from my desktop, with resolution, etc the same. I sent you the different HTML files, and you admitted that contrary to your expectations, the code was different. We never did resolve that issue either, and I only used the code generated from the desktop from that point. I butt in now, because of a thought I had later. Both of my computers had the text size set to medium in IE, and I noticed that if I changed the text size to smallest in IE, on the laptop, that the posted site then looked ok. I never did try generating code from the laptop to see if that made any difference with my issue, but am now wondering what would happen if Chris went to View > Text Size, and changed the size to smaller or smallest if that would make any difference? DavidF > Based on your details I was able to identify this as something that has come > up one other time. But we never could resolve it. [quoted text clipped - 51 lines] > >> > resolution is set to. I have tried it on a friends identical PC ant it > >> > appears as it should. Very odd... Any Ideas? David here is my site if it helps - www.chrissmithtest.com > Based on your details I was able to identify this as something that has come > up one other time. But we never could resolve it. [quoted text clipped - 51 lines] > >> > resolution is set to. I have tried it on a friends identical PC ant it > >> > appears as it should. Very odd... Any Ideas? Second half too long - now posting by paragraph... What I found to work was to ungroup everything. It is a mino annoyance because now I have to draw a selection box around the object I want to move together to temporarily group them, but it's easy enough - JWPlat ----------------------------------------------------------------------- View this thread: http://www.forum4designers.com/message159231.htm ...and now the final paragraph - sheesh! I actually found a bunch of problems going from Publisher 2000 to 200 for which I had to come up with work-arounds. Perhaps I'll post the here later. Some of the more significant things: Default text bo margins of .04 in Pub 2000 seems to equal about .025 in Pub 2002. Tex leading (line spacing) of 1.0 in Pub 2000 seems to equal about 1.175 i Pub 2002. Also, trying to overlay Pub 2002 table objects with row less than about 0.25 inches high with other graphics completely ruin any hope of accurate alignment. Rows must be at least a quarter inc high to maintain consistent alignment with overlying objects - JWPlat ----------------------------------------------------------------------- View this thread: http://www.forum4designers.com/message159231.htm web design going from 2000 to 2002. yes very very drastic, but old news. you certainly wouldn't like 2003. David Bartosik - [MSFT MVP] www.publishermvps.com www.davidbartosik.com > ...and now the final paragraph - sheesh! > [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > View this thread: http://www.forum4designers.com/message159231.html > *web design going from 2000 to 2002. yes very very drastic, but ol > news. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > * I won't go so far as to say I don't like 2002 or that I wouldn't lik 2003. I plan to stay current. There are some things missing like pag name control, but its not a big deal. Once the migration is completed or when creating something new in 2002, it works fine. It's just tha the migration is way too difficult and inconsistent. We should be abl to count on absolute measurments like textbox margins and line spacing for example, to stay the same - an inch is an inch. Microsoft shoul have taken a less arrogant approach to leaving compatibility behind. And actually breaking grouping is simply not "works as designed. - JWPlat ----------------------------------------------------------------------- View this thread: http://www.forum4designers.com/message159231.htm Page naming is back in 2003 but it's conditional. David Bartosik - [MSFT MVP] www.publishermvps.com www.davidbartosik.com >> *web design going from 2000 to 2002. yes very very drastic, but old >> news. [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > View this thread: http://www.forum4designers.com/message159231.html I should add one more piece of advice while responding to this fellow' question. My assumption has been he either converted from an earlie Publisher, has grouped objects, or both. Objects converted from 2000 to 2002, or even cut and pasted from converted 2000/2002 document to a fresh 2002 document often behav oddly. Especially tables in my experience. I would recreate as man tables as time allows rather than copy them over. But what fixed mos problems was simply ungrouping things. I don't know if 2003 is th same way, but from David's comment on 2003, I suspect it is - JWPlat ----------------------------------------------------------------------- View this thread: http://www.forum4designers.com/message159231.htm |
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