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Old October 6th, 2009, 06:43 PM posted to microsoft.public.publisher
Andy Smith
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Default BUG REPORT: prints, but doesn't display, suppressed 1st page H


I trust you downloaded the PUB file, not the PDF...

I began with a blank publication and set it up as a booklet with letter-size
paper in landscape orientation. It asked me to insert pages, I said yes, and
it ended up four pages, with 2 and 3 facing.

I went to the master page, a two-pager, and then went to View / Header and
Footer. In each header I typed "tabDancing Fairies", in the left footer I
clicked the H/F toolbar's page-number tool, and in the right footer I typed
two tabs and then clicked that tool.

In the page sorter I left-clicked page 1, and I saw header and footer. Then
I right-clicked page 1, chose Insert Section, cleared the "Show H/F's on 1st
page" checkbox and clicked OK. The H/F disappeared.

I did the same on page 4, where the H/F also appeared, and I also checked
"Begin a new section". The H/F disappeared afterward.

I then added the text boxes and bitmap objects, but they're irrelevant.

Finally I did Print Preview: the H/Fs were on all four pages. I went back
to normal, checked pages 1 and 4, and they were not there.

That's not WYSIWYG. That's a *BUG*. There are my steps. Prove me wrong.

--
Andy Smith
Senior Systems Analyst
Standard & Poor''s, NYC



"Mary Sauer" wrote:

Did it ever occur to you that you are setting up your publication incorrectly? I
cannot duplicate your so-called bug.
I did not change your document, I had to re-setup the publication as a booklet.
It downloaded to me as four separate pages.


--
Mary Sauer
http://msauer.mvps.org/

"Andy Smith" wrote in message
...

Anyone who wants to see the *BUG* can simply follow my October2 posting.
Don't change the file, as Mary Sauer did, just follow the steps I wrote.
It's 100% reproducible, and it's not WYSIWYG -- the normal display differs
from the print preview and printout. Not WYSIWYG equals *BUG*.

--
Andy Smith
Senior Systems Analyst
Standard & Poor''s, NYC



"Ed Bennett" wrote:

Andy Smith wrote:
OK, there are all kinds of workarounds -- including the very sloppy one
involving the white rectangle -- what if your publication's paper isn't
necessarily white, or of one color?

Printers can't print white, so it doesn't matter what colour or pattern
the paper is - printing white simply prints nothing. (At least as far as
Publisher is concerned - some dye-sub printers can print white, but if
you tell Publisher to print white, even they will print nothing, since
in Publisher, "white = nothing".)

Of course, if the Master Page has colours or patterns on, then that's
different - but that was even the advice offered by the Help File back
in the day. I guess the recommendation was then to white out the entire
Master Page and copy and paste it on top of the white rectangle,
removing unwanted elements.

Fine, I can work around it, but I also want to report this *BUG* for
the benefit of others doing more serious work -- that's what a bug report
is
for, and that's why I wrote the subject line as such.

This newsgroup is for support and help doing what you need to do, not
for reporting bugs. The individuals here are simply trying to help you
do what you need to do.

I can't believe it's so hard to report bugs to Microsoft,

If Microsoft opened their bug reporting channels to the world and his
wife, the vast majority of "bug"s would in fact be user error, and the
real bugs would be practically impossible to distinguish without
devoting a huge support staff to filtering through them.

--
Ed Bennett