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December 16th, 2007, 02:04 PM
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No surprises there then - no fixes at all in the latest office service pack
for the legions of bugs in Publisher. Could it be construed that Publisher is being quietly dropped, or that Microsoft are secretly developing a proper dtp package to replace it? 
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December 16th, 2007, 02:31 PM
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I agree that it sux but I don't think that jumping to that conclusion is the
way to go. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] ~~~~~ How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375 "Fred" wrote in message ... No surprises there then - no fixes at all in the latest office service pack for the legions of bugs in Publisher. Could it be construed that Publisher is being quietly dropped, or that Microsoft are secretly developing a proper dtp package to replace it?
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December 16th, 2007, 03:11 PM
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A thought, if you never had a version of Publisher before, maybe these bugs
aren't bugs but a built-in feature. I understand some of the wizards were eliminated from Word and PowerPoint, maybe it was decided Publisher didn't need them either. The Design Gallery is darn near unusable without them. -- Mary Sauer MSFT MVP http://office.microsoft.com/ http://msauer.mvps.org/ news://msnews.microsoft.com "JoAnn Paules" wrote in message ... I agree that it sux but I don't think that jumping to that conclusion is the way to go. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] ~~~~~ How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375 "Fred" wrote in message ... No surprises there then - no fixes at all in the latest office service pack for the legions of bugs in Publisher. Could it be construed that Publisher is being quietly dropped, or that Microsoft are secretly developing a proper dtp package to replace it?
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December 16th, 2007, 04:15 PM
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We don't know which "bugs" the OP means but the truth is that there were no
fixes for Publisher. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] ~~~~~ How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375 "Mary Sauer" wrote in message ... A thought, if you never had a version of Publisher before, maybe these bugs aren't bugs but a built-in feature. I understand some of the wizards were eliminated from Word and PowerPoint, maybe it was decided Publisher didn't need them either. The Design Gallery is darn near unusable without them. -- Mary Sauer MSFT MVP http://office.microsoft.com/ http://msauer.mvps.org/ news://msnews.microsoft.com "JoAnn Paules" wrote in message ... I agree that it sux but I don't think that jumping to that conclusion is the way to go. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] ~~~~~ How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375 "Fred" wrote in message ... No surprises there then - no fixes at all in the latest office service pack for the legions of bugs in Publisher. Could it be construed that Publisher is being quietly dropped, or that Microsoft are secretly developing a proper dtp package to replace it?
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December 19th, 2007, 06:41 PM
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We don't know which "bugs" the OP means but the truth is that there were no
fixes for Publisher. Sorry, do I have to specify any in particular? There are so many... The ones that have particularly annoyed me though include internal rounding errors which create inaccurate values when querying text height values in macros, for one. Then there's the one whereby if you create a custom page size & then save page to an image, it gets the size completely wrong - but possibly only the first time. Then there's a glaringly simple and obvious one which has been carried on through numerous versions - text boxes containing only one line of text do not flag an overflow if the text doesn't fit. These should be simple to fix. Then I could mention feature deficiencies which should be improved - like the almost non-existent support for eps files, and the ****-poor pdf support. It really should be possible to import pdf & eps images, and 'save as image' to pdf & eps formats - Publisher is supposed to be a dtp program, isn't it? It's such a shame - there is a massive void in the market below the top-end and hugely expensive offerings from Quark & Adobe - possibly only even slightly filled by Serif's Page Plus, which nobody seems to take seriously either. (If only they made it scriptable...!) Maybe Scribus will in time mature & clean up, but if it turns out anything like OpenOffice then I wouldn't be too hopeful. It's worrying though that Microsoft don't seem to be seriously interested in taking Publisher forward - the 2007 version could only be described as a cosmetic makeover - and even that failed to bring it into line with the Office ribbon bar. It hasn't really been improved much since Publisher 2000. It's interesting that the apparent 'program manager' for Publisher has had nothing to say on the subject since September 2006 (http://blogs.msdn.com/jeff_bell/) when he appeared quite enthusiastic, and he doesn't respond, even automatically, to emails. Furthermore, the forum Microsoft set up to report issues with the beta release at connect.microsoft.com seems to have been abandoned at the end of 2006, and although they did fix some of the bugs reported there in the release version, many were not and still remain. "JoAnn Paules" wrote in message ... We don't know which "bugs" the OP means but the truth is that there were no fixes for Publisher. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] ~~~~~ How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375 "Mary Sauer" wrote in message ... A thought, if you never had a version of Publisher before, maybe these bugs aren't bugs but a built-in feature. I understand some of the wizards were eliminated from Word and PowerPoint, maybe it was decided Publisher didn't need them either. The Design Gallery is darn near unusable without them. -- Mary Sauer MSFT MVP http://office.microsoft.com/ http://msauer.mvps.org/ news://msnews.microsoft.com "JoAnn Paules" wrote in message ... I agree that it sux but I don't think that jumping to that conclusion is the way to go. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] ~~~~~ How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375 "Fred" wrote in message ... No surprises there then - no fixes at all in the latest office service pack for the legions of bugs in Publisher. Could it be construed that Publisher is being quietly dropped, or that Microsoft are secretly developing a proper dtp package to replace it?
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