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<blockquote data-quote="chas_m" data-source="post: 1645731"><p><rant>Microsoft Publisher was the bane of anyone who worked seriously in the graphic arts, particularly for printers. It is an awful program that is incapable of producing anything remotely professional-looking. In 20 years in the print industry not only did I never see a single piece of Publisher-produced material that looked remotely acceptable for professional print standards, I also never encountered a single file made by that wretched program that reproduced colour faithfully or was with severe technical issues when converted to pro systems. We often ended up re-creating the piece (minus the usually-garish colour choices and childish "type art") in Quark Xpress or Pagemaker/InDesign just to get something that would actually reproduce properly. On top of this, it converted to NOTHING except PDF (horribly off on colour, naturally) and would not play with even with Windows systems or other Microsoft programs. Horrible, horrible program. Maybe it got better in later versions, but there are few things not currently serving in Congress I loathe with the same hatred I have for MS (or "Mess") Publisher.</rant></p><p></p><p>Not directed at the OP. Just had to get that out of my system.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chas_m, post: 1645731"] <rant>Microsoft Publisher was the bane of anyone who worked seriously in the graphic arts, particularly for printers. It is an awful program that is incapable of producing anything remotely professional-looking. In 20 years in the print industry not only did I never see a single piece of Publisher-produced material that looked remotely acceptable for professional print standards, I also never encountered a single file made by that wretched program that reproduced colour faithfully or was with severe technical issues when converted to pro systems. We often ended up re-creating the piece (minus the usually-garish colour choices and childish "type art") in Quark Xpress or Pagemaker/InDesign just to get something that would actually reproduce properly. On top of this, it converted to NOTHING except PDF (horribly off on colour, naturally) and would not play with even with Windows systems or other Microsoft programs. Horrible, horrible program. Maybe it got better in later versions, but there are few things not currently serving in Congress I loathe with the same hatred I have for MS (or "Mess") Publisher.</rant> Not directed at the OP. Just had to get that out of my system. [/QUOTE]
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