Re: Publisher Web Page/compatibility with IE8

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I suspect that you confused Spike's directions. It appears that almost
everything on the page is grouped together, as almost all is combined into
one large image file when viewed with FireFox:
http://www.piling-solutions.com/index_files/image1024.gif
Grouped design elements will render OK in IE7 and older, but are converted
to an image for FireFox and not rendered at all in IE8.

Here is one of your pages that I happened upon that does not have some of
the text grouped with the rest of the page:
http://www.piling-solutions.com/index_files/Page544.htm
Notice that the text renders as does that single green bar.

Open your Publisher file, click on the first page, go to Edit > Select All
and then to Arrange > Ungroup. Now do a web page preview. Assuming that you
are using IE8, your page should render correctly. Does it?

Assuming that ungrouping the pages does work, then you will need to check
each page for grouped elements. While the SP2 patch will allow both the
navbar and other grouped elements to render in IE8, it does not change the
fact that grouped elements other than the navbar are combined into an image
for FF. While you would still be able to see the content, it is still not
desirable to have it all combined into one big image. So you can manually
ungroup each page as a whole if you don't care about uncoupling the navbar
wizard. If you do, then go through each page and ungroup everything except
the navbar, and run the SP2 to fix the navbar issue separately.

If you have problems spotting those other elements that are grouped
together, publish your web files to your local computer and view the files
in the index_files folder in thumbnail view. You should be able to spot the
text boxes and such that have been converted to images that way.

DavidF

"Peter Richardson" <PeterRichardson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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www.piling-solutions.com

The only thing which appears on the screen when someone tries to open the
page in IE8 is a horizontal green bar. The same applies whether I use a
link
to a specific page in the web site or wheter I use the direct URL for the
home page.

The web site was created in Publisher 2007, the site opens normally in
IE2007

"DavidF" wrote:

Please post a link to your website.

Also please explain more specifically what you mean when you say "my web
site still fails to open in IE8". Are you saying the site will not render
at
all, or that the navbar or other parts of the page won't render? Also
what
version of Publisher are you using?

DavidF

"Peter Richardson" <Peter Richardson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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I followed your suggestions on my web site, having been guided thereby a
guy
at MS in the Netherlands. Unfortunately my web site still fails to open
in
IE8. IE7 works fine. MS don't appear to offer a solution, is there an
alternative web design programme which could open publisher web sites
in a
different format which is compatible with IE8 or is there some other
trick
which solves the problem?

SP2 doesn't seem to make any difference, I uninstalled it, but the
result
was the same, and when I re-installed it nothing changed.

Peter Richardson

"Spike" wrote:

There are two (2) known solutions thus far.

(1) : Workaround

Create a web site with nav bars etc.
Saved web site as "My web site.pub"
With the pub page open
Ctrl a (selects all)
Arrange > Ungroup
This insures that all groups are ungrouped
This must be done on ALL pages individually
Re-Saved using Save As "My web site NBUG.pub"
I take the step to "Save As" so that when I shut down publisher and I
get
a
prompt to save my changes I do NOT overwrite the master file "My web
site.pub" accidentally.
Publish to the web
FTP to the server
Web site works using IE 8

If a change, update is required or a page is added
Open with "My web site.pub"
Make changes
Follow the above suggestions
BTW NBUG = "Nav Bars Un Grouped"

(2) Upgrade Office 2007 with SP2

There have been some problems reported that after SP2 was installed
the
user
could not open previous saved 2007 publisher files. For myself, I
have
office 2007 SP2 using Vista OS and have not had any problems using SP2
and
the websites function with IE 8.

Keep a watch on this thread as I feel that you will see more
contributors
to
this question.

Spike





"ep6" <ep6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have a web page created with Publisher 2007. It works as expected
until
I
downloaded Internet Explore 8. The "compatibility mode" does not
work.
Is
there a solution to this?









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