Sending a MS Publisher doc

[Thais]

I have just sent a Publisher doc to a company & they cannot open it because they don't have Publisher on their 'puter system! :shock:

They have asked me if their is any other format I can send it in. Now if it's a Publisher template....is this possible??

:idea:

[gary]

You may be able to do a File, Save As and select a different format - that's often worth a try. I don't think there is a standard Publisher reader like there is for Word.

Gary

[10 Yetis]

Ola,

Is it being sent to a print company? If so it will probably need to be a Jpeg or EPS file...?
To convert to this from publisher is tricky?

If it not a printing company then you could 'copy and paste' it into something like PowerPoint and send that file across as most people have powerpoint.

If you need it to be a jpeg or alike and can save it to a Powerpoint doc, feel free to send it to me and I will convert for you FOC (free, not swearing at you).

[Thais]

Andy

It's a trifold brochure with graphics. And no, it's not for a printing company, it's for the company I'm going to be doing stress management work for next year. I promised them an info brochure but it never occurred to me that a very large national business wouldn't have Publisher on their systems! :? And you'd be surprised how many people don't have Powerpoint!!

Thanks for the help & the FOC offer :) but I think I will print them myself & charge 'em for it!

Thais :D

[kyber]

I am afraid that MS Publisher is a rare beast in most companies. If you want to share presentation material (rather than collaborate) then your best bet is almost always PDF (the Adobe Acrobat) format.

You may well already have a printer driver installed that will generate this for you. Instead of printing to a printer you print to the virtual PDF printer and it creates a file you can forward to a third party.

This is also commonly used by Word users to publish information to others (not least to avoid the history/track change information being retained in the document for the 3rd party to read when you would really rather they didn't).

If you do not have a PDF print driver loaded, then do a google search and you should find some free/low-cost options. Unless you intend to do some very complex publishing, you do not need to invest in the full blown Adobe Acrobat program (not to be confused with the free viewer called Adobe [Acrobat] Reader).

Stuart

[Thais]

Thank you Stuart. My son is going to help me with installing a PDF print driver at Xmas.

:)

[tollyboy]

Your best bet could be to get hold of Acobat 7 Pro. If using MS Office stuff, then it creates a print to PDF option in the print dialogue box.

[kyber]

Hi, bit surprised to see this message reopened. I am curious as to why you think that it would that be best to invest in the full blown Acrobat 7 Pro package rather than one of the low cost alternatives in this case.

Stuart

[Whistle Ink]

Hi

For some reason I create invoices / quotes in Publisher and I send copies of invoices to email as a PDF using PrimoPDF.

I have signed up to the free version but it convert documents even with 5+ pages to PDF. Its free and works for me!

It works te sae way as the others, when you select print document it comes up as a Printer and you just select it and away you go.