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Old April 2nd, 2009, 01:56 PM posted to microsoft.public.publisher
GameVein
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Default Does Publisher read XAML

I have Expression Design 1 and want to make .pdfs from files I create with
it. Unfortunately when it exports as .pdf it exports as one big image and
any text in the resulting file is unsearchable.

So I thought I could export as a XAML file and retain the text. Does
Publisher 2007 read XAML files? If it does can it export a .pdf or somethign
that can be turned into a .pdf (with searchable text and not one big image)?

Is it easy to export .pdf with Publisher? I do not yet own a copy.
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Old April 2nd, 2009, 03:55 PM posted to microsoft.public.publisher
Ed Bennett
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Default Does Publisher read XAML

GameVein wrote:
So I thought I could export as a XAML file and retain the text. Does
Publisher 2007 read XAML files? If it does can it export a .pdf or somethign
that can be turned into a .pdf (with searchable text and not one big image)?


Publisher cannot read XAML, but Publisher 2007 does export PDFs easily.
Have you tried printing to a PDF using something like PrimoPDF
(www.primopdf.com) from Expression Design?

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Old April 3rd, 2009, 12:38 AM posted to microsoft.public.publisher
GameVein
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Default Does Publisher read XAML

I have tried printing to a PDF print driver (pdf creater) but it too converts
any file printed into one big image that is unsearchable. It does not retain
the text.

I am making online .pdf manuals so having the ability to search text is
important to the readers.

My guess is that PrimoPDF also converts any files printed into one image per
page in the resulting .pdf it produces.

Perhaps a future version of Publisher can read XAML files. Lets hope.
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Old April 3rd, 2009, 05:32 AM posted to microsoft.public.publisher
Rob Giordano [MS MVP]
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Default Does Publisher read XAML

but the Acrobat Reader searches it's own text, so your readers would be able
to search right?



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"GameVein" wrote in message
...
I have tried printing to a PDF print driver (pdf creater) but it too
converts
any file printed into one big image that is unsearchable. It does not
retain
the text.

I am making online .pdf manuals so having the ability to search text is
important to the readers.

My guess is that PrimoPDF also converts any files printed into one image
per
page in the resulting .pdf it produces.

Perhaps a future version of Publisher can read XAML files. Lets hope.



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Old April 3rd, 2009, 07:36 AM posted to microsoft.public.publisher
GameVein
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Default Does Publisher read XAML

Unfortunately when Expression Design exports things it exports them as one
giant image. There is no text, just an image of the text as part of the
larger page image.

So when the resulting .pdf is put into Acrobat Reader there is not even the
word "the" to be found when searching. It is just one large image for each
page. It means we don't need to include fonts imbedded in the .pdfs but it
makes it so that the text cannot be searched.

"Rob Giordano [MS MVP]" wrote:

but the Acrobat Reader searches it's own text, so your readers would be able
to search right?



--
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Rob Giordano
Microsoft MVP Expression






"GameVein" wrote in message
...
I have tried printing to a PDF print driver (pdf creater) but it too
converts
any file printed into one big image that is unsearchable. It does not
retain
the text.

I am making online .pdf manuals so having the ability to search text is
important to the readers.

My guess is that PrimoPDF also converts any files printed into one image
per
page in the resulting .pdf it produces.

Perhaps a future version of Publisher can read XAML files. Lets hope.




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Old April 3rd, 2009, 02:09 PM posted to microsoft.public.publisher
John G.[_3_]
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Default Does Publisher read XAML

If you want searchable text why would you use a graphics design program to
generate the text.?
Use Word or similar.

John G.
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"GameVein" wrote in message
...
Unfortunately when Expression Design exports things it exports them as one
giant image. There is no text, just an image of the text as part of the
larger page image.

So when the resulting .pdf is put into Acrobat Reader there is not even
the
word "the" to be found when searching. It is just one large image for
each
page. It means we don't need to include fonts imbedded in the .pdfs but
it
makes it so that the text cannot be searched.

"Rob Giordano [MS MVP]" wrote:

but the Acrobat Reader searches it's own text, so your readers would be
able
to search right?



--
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Rob Giordano
Microsoft MVP Expression






"GameVein" wrote in message
...
I have tried printing to a PDF print driver (pdf creater) but it too
converts
any file printed into one big image that is unsearchable. It does not
retain
the text.

I am making online .pdf manuals so having the ability to search text is
important to the readers.

My guess is that PrimoPDF also converts any files printed into one
image
per
page in the resulting .pdf it produces.

Perhaps a future version of Publisher can read XAML files. Lets hope.






 




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