Anyone know how to change a Microsoft Publisher file to a .pdf?

lifesaver · #1 06-30-2003, 03:36 AM

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Originally posted by ktsnake
I have Acrobat, but it only seems to work with Word.

Since this is what I do for a living, I can answer this. You have 2 options.

First see if Publisher will let you save as .pdf. It might not. We dont use publisher, because printers and service bureaus wont accept them. I dotn know publisher. But that wont help you now, lol. If you can so it, it will be under the print menu. Remember, with the exception of Adobe prods (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign or PageMaker), the pdf creation function is not under the save as menu, but under the print menu. So youd go to print and pull down the printer selection bar to select the pdf writer (usually Acrobat). If its not there, go back and chack if you can save as a pdf. IF not, youre outta luck.

2. Buy or download Acrobat WRITER. Remember the reader is free, you gotta buy the writer. The brand name one (Acrobat) is a couple of hundred dollars. The off brand ones are only about $60.

Hope this helps.

PS: Your acrobat may have coem imbedded with Word. I found that to be the case more than once. Still wont help you with publisher. Maybe call Kinkos and ask them if their computers have publisher and you can export to a pdf. But remember, it'll be expensive and the kids at kinkos are idiots. They knwo nothing, casue the turnover there is about 8 minutes.

MysticCat · #2 06-29-2007, 02:30 PM

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Originally Posted by lifesaver

Remember, with the exception of Adobe prods (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign or PageMaker), the pdf creation function is not under the save as menu, but under the print menu.

In WordPerfect, it's under the "File" menu: "File" --> "Publish To . . ." --> ".pdf."

FWIW (which probably isn't much since Kevin is using MS Publisher).

AlphaFrog · #3 06-29-2007, 02:32 PM

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Originally Posted by MysticCat

FWIW (which probably isn't much since Kevin is using MS Publisher).

OP = 2003

DeltAlum · #4 06-29-2007, 10:58 PM

Interesting. Our daughter is a graphic designer -- they don't use Publisher because they think it's junk.

Last week, she got a file from a client and couldn't open it, so she e-mailed it to me to see if I could open it and save it as a PDF and e-mail it back to her.

I tried, but I guess her file was in a newer version than came on my computer, so I couldn't even open it with the Publisher on my machine.

Thank you Microsoft.

ISUKappa · #5 06-30-2007, 02:34 PM

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Originally Posted by DeltAlum

Interesting. Our daughter is a graphic designer -- they don't use Publisher because they think it's junk.

That's because it is.

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Last week, she got a file from a client and couldn't open it, so she e-mailed it to me to see if I could open it and save it as a PDF and e-mail it back to her.

I tried, but I guess her file was in a newer version than came on my computer, so I couldn't even open it with the Publisher on my machine.

Thank you Microsoft.

One of my absolute pet peeves working in the Publishing industry is the yahoos who submit ads in Word, with embedded photos, which we inevitably have to recreate in the proper program. And then they wonder 1) why it doesn't look exactly like the sent it in and 2) the photos are crappy.

Give someone a PC and some creative license and all of a sudden they're a graphic designer.

KSig RC · #6 06-30-2007, 02:34 PM

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Originally Posted by DeltAlum

Interesting. Our daughter is a graphic designer -- they don't use Publisher because they think it's junk.

Last week, she got a file from a client and couldn't open it, so she e-mailed it to me to see if I could open it and save it as a PDF and e-mail it back to her.

I tried, but I guess her file was in a newer version than came on my computer, so I couldn't even open it with the Publisher on my machine.

Thank you Microsoft.

To be "fair" to MS (not that they need it at all), Publisher isn't really aimed at professionals . . . Adobe's products are pretty much the industry standard, and the MS products are more aimed toward your everyday joe putting together a newsletter for the junior league or little league.

DeltAlum · #7 06-30-2007, 02:47 PM

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Originally Posted by KSig RC

Publisher isn't really aimed at professionals . . .

Your point is a good one. Actually, I've used Publisher for personal stuff and don't really have a problem with it, but my professional daughter has nothing good to say about it.

It does drive me a little crazy that newer programs with the same names as older ones have no downward compatibility.

I guess it's one way to sell new software.

AGDee · #8 07-01-2007, 11:18 PM

A free PDF writer is Cute PDF. You also have to download a prerequisite called GhostWriter. Google it and you'll find them. As lifesaver said, it shows up as a printer so you select Print, choose Cute PDF and it prompts you for a file name.

Kevin · #9 07-02-2007, 01:08 PM

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Originally Posted by KSig RC

To be "fair" to MS (not that they need it at all), Publisher isn't really aimed at professionals . . . Adobe's products are pretty much the industry standard, and the MS products are more aimed toward your everyday joe putting together a newsletter for the junior league or little league.

Yeah.. it was fairly easy to use. I customized a template and it actually turned out really nice.

I haven't done a newsletter in a few years because my free-color-printing source dried up.