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MS Office Forum / Publisher / General MS Publisher Questions / January 2008"Publisher cannot open the file" error. AHH!
I have a catalog I've been updating for publication at the end of Feb. I've got many hours into the rehash. I last worked on it 1/24. I opened it tonight... got the error of "Publisher cannot open the file". I ran error recovery on reboot, I copied the file and tried to open the copy... all to no avail. I had autorecovery turned on, but there is nothing I can find for any sort of backup. I tried a couple recovery apps, but I don't care about the text, I need the layout/images/text as a whole. I had a hunch and noticed I did a Microsoft Update on the system the same day. Anyone else have such a problem? Publisher 2002 WinXP Media Center  SignatureMarc A. Mercier, Web / Catalog Designer The Sausage Source, LLC Well, I uninstalled all the updates installed by Windows Updater, removed WinPub2002 and restarted. I removed the Office>Publisher left behind in the registry. I reinstalled WinPub2002... no go. I just installed 2007 trial... no go. I told the owner a year or so back after our first catalog that Publisher isn't pro software for what we need to do. It's fine for his mailing labels, product labels, etc, but not when you're doing a 32+ pg full color catalog. I mentioned it again today now that he knows I've lost a weeks work and as far as he's concerned the 'catalog is gone'. Happy not are we. FINALLY he'll consider purchasing InDesign... but no learning curve time since the deadline is Feb 29th so I'll be rehashing the catalog in WinPub2002. Luckily I still have last year's catalog on hand and WinPub2002 *will* open that file... time to start over. If anyone has any suggestions, etc... let me know... there's a company t-shirt, hat or whatever in it for you if it works. SignatureMarc A. Mercier, Web / Catalog Designer The Sausage Source, LLC > I have a catalog I've been updating for publication at the end of Feb. I've > got many hours into the rehash. I last worked on it 1/24. I opened it [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > Publisher 2002 > WinXP Media Center I just finished a 32 pg 4 over 4 theater playbill and it looked great. I do two of them a year with Publisher...various versions and have only had problems when I've used last year's as a template (only happened once). I also have InDesign but I can work faster in Publisher. You may want to send someone your file and see if they can open it in Publisher. Signature~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Rob Giordano Microsoft MVP Expression | Well, I uninstalled all the updates installed by Windows Updater, removed | WinPub2002 and restarted. I removed the Office>Publisher left behind in the [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] | > Publisher 2002 | > WinXP Media Center I've done 2-1/2 of these catalogs. I guess the reasons for my issues are (referring to other posts): * I opened the previous revisions, did a save-as to the new name & did my modifications (which shouldn't matter) * I installed the updates 894540, 894541, 894542 * Adding a PromptForBadFiles key in the registry did nothing for 2002. 2007 comes up with "Publisher has detected a problem in the file you are trying to open. To protect your computer, Publisher will not open the file." When I click ok, I get the "Publisher cannot open the file" error. * Ctrl-Shift-I didn't work on 2002. 2007 does work and gives me an error of 1100009. SignatureMarc A. Mercier, Web / Catalog Designer The Sausage Source, LLC > I just finished a 32 pg 4 over 4 theater playbill and it looked great. I do > two of them a year with Publisher...various versions and have only had [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > You may want to send someone your file and see if they can open it in > Publisher. I'd be happy to try to open your file. Did you try all the steps outlined in this article? How to troubleshoot a damaged publication in Publisher http://support.microsoft.com/kb/198256/en-us Publisher will balk if you have a damaged or outdated printer driver. Norton can be troublesome as well. mary-sauer at columbus.rr.com SignatureMary Sauer MSFT MVP http://office.microsoft.com/ http://msauer.mvps.org/ news://msnews.microsoft.com > I've done 2-1/2 of these catalogs. I guess the reasons for my issues are > (referring to other posts): [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] >> You may want to send someone your file and see if they can open it in >> Publisher. Thank you for the offer Mary. Sent a pre-email to you. Standard stuff... NDAs, proof of bonding request, etc. (KIDDING!). Can't do the whole file. Did .rar chunks of 8mb each. That okay? I did try everything I could find in the newsgroup. SOL. I appreciate another set of eyes. SignatureMarc A. Mercier, Web / Catalog Designer The Sausage Source, LLC > I'd be happy to try to open your file. > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > Publisher will balk if you have a damaged or outdated printer driver. Norton can > be troublesome as well. |
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