Re: Page numbering in Publisher 2007

Ed Bennett wrote:
Dennis McCunney wrote:
I know. That's where I got it. I simply think it should be included by default, and not something you have to go fetch, assuming you're aware it exists.

Word on the street is that this requirement was for licensing reasons. Adobe strongarmed Microsoft into having to pay royalties for using the PDF standard; instead of having to pay this for every copy of Office sold, instead this way it only has to pay it for copies of the add-in downloaded.

The idea of someone *else* strong-arming Microsoft is amusing. Sauce for the goose...

But yes, that would explain things.

Office 2007 SP2 will include the PDF functionality:
http://blogs.technet.com/office_sustained_engineering/archive/2008/10/22/announcing-service-pack-2-sp2-for-the-2007-microsoft-office-system.aspx

Good news, if so.

Yes, I've used things like PrimoPDF in the past. I'm not sure how well it work for the case where I want to send the result to a commercial printer, and I need to do things like convert the RGB color in the Publisher file to CYMK. Publisher's add-in offers choices like Optimize for commercial printer for such circumstances. The printer will use the PDF as input for an imagesetter, which likely has different requirements than your normal laser printer.

Our resident printing consultant, Matt Beals, generally advocates using RGB in Publisher, and letting the staff at the commercial printer do the conversion to CMYK, as Publisher's efforts are typically non-ideal.

Noted for future reference. The generated PDF I sent to the printer had image quality equivalent to the high-res color images I was supplied for the publication, and the low-res proof PDFs I got looked okay. (Low-res so they could be sent in email. Hi-res would have been too large.) The chap I did the project for saw the hardcopy proofs and professed himself satisfied, so Publisher's internal RGB->CYMK conversion seems to have been adequate.

I was also told the printer we used had an option for customers to install software that it created a virtual printer you could send the job to, and the result was a PDF you could send to them. I've looked at software like that in the past, but was a little surprised the results would be usable by a commercial printer.
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