Have you looked at the Commercial Printing articles in the help files?
There is a training document here
http://office.microsoft.com/training...0618327 41033

Tips for optimizing your publications for commercial printing
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/pu...CH063586601033

If you save your publication as a picture format, you are given the option
of 300 dpi. The cmyx option is found in Tools, Commercial printing tools.

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

"Paul" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:41:25 +0000, Paul
, in message ID
, in the newsgroup
microsoft.public.publisher wrote:

I have MS Publisher 2003 running on Windows XP.

I have had this program a few years and until now it has been
sufficient because I have only ever used it for screen or to print off
a few things indoors.
However, I now need to prepare some A5 postcards for commercial
printing to promote my business. The problem seems to be that
commercial printers require the files to be 300 DPI whereas Publisher
will only give 150 DPI. There is a workaround but apparently it
would affect quality.
The formats for commercial printer are pdf, tif, or jpg.
I tried saving as pdf (i.e. printing to pdf) but this seems to remove
the background colour.
Saving as jpg will only allow a maximum resolution of 150 DPI (as will
tif).
My peference is to save as jpg at 300 DPI without quality degradation.
I realise that any photos in there will need to be 300 DPI too.
Although a novice, I understand that resolution can only be reduced
rather than enhanced (degradation excepted).

I am prepared to spend something on a bit of software but need to keep
my costs as low as possible. Has anyone any recommendations for any
cheap or free software that can do pretty much what Publisher 2003
does but can save its jpgs at 300 dpi?

I have looked around the web but many of the sites I have encountered
appear to have an agenda of selling stuff. I would prefer an unbiased
opinion from here before choosing.
I already have the document partially done in Publisher 2003. There
would be no problem in me re-doing it from scratch in another program.
I don't need loads of super dooper features really. Indeed, I like
simplicity. I just want to be able to save as a jpg at 300 dpi, full
bleed (to ensure no white edges when commercially printed) and if
possible, some type of Wordart type facility.
I would greatly appreciate any comments and recommendations (and
reason(s) for those recommendations. I really do need some simplicity
too. Although not a computer novice, dtp is not my forté. :-)


Bad form replying to my own post but I would need CMYK facility too of
course.