Publisher and Webpage

[Clueless]

I have created a web page in publisher that has hyperlinks
to pages on the internet. Whenever I export the .pub to a
web page .html file it is converting the links to be
located where ever I save the file, like on my C drive
instead of what I typed in the .pub which is a site on the
internet. The strange part is that 1 link comes out ok and
the rest are wrong. Does anyone know how to fix this
problem?

 

[David Candy]

Publisher is a useless program that is basically useless. Therefore you need to ask were the losers hang out.

Generally speaking one puts in links relative to the current document, unless they are too another site. But as I said Publisher is a useless program designed to seperate idiots from their money.

Edit the links manually using notepad.

 

[Cerridwen]

I have created a web page in publisher that has hyperlinks
to pages on the internet. Whenever I export the .pub to a
web page .html file it is converting the links to be
located where ever I save the file, like on my C drive
instead of what I typed in the .pub which is a site on the
internet. The strange part is that 1 link comes out ok and
the rest are wrong. Does anyone know how to fix this
problem?

Answered in the General group. Please don't multipost.

 

[Cerridwen]

Publisher is a useless program that is basically useless. Therefore
you need to ask were the losers hang out.

Generally speaking one puts in links relative to the current
document, unless they are too another site. But as I said Publisher
is a useless program designed to seperate idiots from their money.

Edit the links manually using notepad.

It is useless as far as web-design goes, I would agree, but as a home/SOHO
DTP application it is very useful, IMO.

As a Publisher user, I find your remarks offensive. So, what do you use for
DTP? Not everyone can afford PageMaker and the learning curve is almost
vertical which makes it prohibitive to all but those with plenty of time and
money.

 

[David Candy]

I use Word. From experience if one does one page per document it produces superior output (although it takes more work). But the main claim to infamity is that documents can't be shared (as no serious person has publisher) or printed (unless one is printing locally).

I used to publish a newsletter (circulation 2000) with word output going to offset printing. It was layout perfect. The editor that replaced me was an idiot. She could only use Works and Publisher type programs. All the minor details of the carefull layout was lost. The title went from small caps to capitals, drop caps disappered, and many other things.

 

[PopRivet]

I don't, but I'm sure others do find you patently
offensive in your fanatical ego-centricity and lack of
security. You know not of what you speak or you would
have posted differently. Only the ignorant consider
the world required to be of the same opinion. And you
are ignorant candy.

It's a useful program for me and there are many I
would/have/will recommend it to. Not all, because,
like any other app, it's not a cure-all for every one's
needs. IMO, Pagemaker really sucks - there are many
more effective and feature-rich packages out there.
But, you see, the difference between you and I and most
of the rest of the world is the level of interpersonal
skills that you do not posess, along with your huge
ego.
I can tell you where the losers and lusers hang out
if you really want to know.

Pop


David Candy SPEWED FROM HIS SPHINCTERS: (Title
modified)

 

[David Candy]

Morons do what morons do. This is a Windows XP group. It has people answering questions, who all probably have publisher sitting in a cupboard (as I do) but don't use it.

It nice that you feel compelled to justify MS defrauding you. But this is just a version of stockholm syndrome.

 

[PopRivet]

I (sort of) respectfully submit that you don't know
what you're talking about and have only yourself to
blame.

I use Word. So do I.
From experience if one does one page per document it
produces superior output (although it takes more

work).
Yes, it does. Same with multiple pages too. And it
doesn't take "more work", whatever that means.

But the main
claim to infamity is that documents can't be shared (as no serious
person has publisher) or printed (unless one is

printing locally).
"infamity"? Do you mean infamy? Or fame?
Documents can easily be shared, corroborated, reviewed,
and marked up. Vetting is easy with Word, for as many
people as you wish to have access any particular file.
What are you using, Word 1.0? Or pirated software?
If so, you're missing lots of pieces.

I used to publish a newsletter (circulation 2000) with word output
going to offset printing.

I still do. Circulation 3550, on glossy 4-color
layout.

It was layout perfect. The editor that
replaced me was an idiot.

No, I suspect she was a familiar face, very similar to
you IFF what you say is true, but more importantly, I
have a feeling you were replaced for less than, shall
we say, effectivity? So, why did she replace you?
I'll ignore the incorrect use of the title "editor"
there.

She could only use Works and Publisher type

program. All the minor details of the carefull

layout was lost.
Managed to sabotage her did you? I can't tell: At one
point it sounds like you did the layout, then it sounds
like someone else did the layout. Not imporatant
though; I don't really care who did it.

title went from small caps to capitals, drop caps disappered, and
many other things.

Hmm, sounds like garbage in, garbage out, to me, along
with the submitter probably refusing to follow
submission requirements.
This little gem I already covered in another post.
But, it's been fun - thanks for the entertainment.

 

[David Candy]

You want some more reason why publisher should cease to exist. I was organising labour about three years ago, my contact with the union was through the federal office (state office only cared about storemen and packers - in Australia the govt forced unions to merge and become bigger - the NUW largest union that merged in was the S&P - in my state they still think they were the only union to form the NUW). The fed organiser used to send me stuff in publisher to distribute to my new and prospective members. This required me to get my CD, install publisher, copy and paste it to word, uninstall publisher. This took an hour to make the documents useable. If not for me noone would have any idea of agendas, formal notifications, and other democratic necessities.

As I said good for idiots. If you want to give cards made out of paper or other similar stuff, go for it. That wouldn't impress me (if I'm going to waste my time I'll make a multimedia extravaganza in powerpoint - I spent years wondering WTF use was powerpoint - then another programmer at work got some attachment that took hours to download - it was a get well card for her cat - ahh I said PP is for E-Cards as noone would use it for presentations - Word, a transparancy maker, a laser printer (needed for the transparancy maker), a blank sheet of paper, and an overhead projector is what one would use).

 

[PopRivet]

David Candy noticed someting not orbiting around him,

Morons do what morons do. This is a Windows XP group. It has people
answering questions, who all probably have publisher sitting in a
cupboard (as I do) but don't use it.

....
Thanks for proving my point, along with indicating what
you do. Oh yeah, and stating the obvious. Anything
else useless to post? Or maybe some more conceit
statements? Too bad you aren't one of those people
answering questions.

Thanks for more entertainment,
</troll feeding>

Pop

 

[PopRivet]

David Candy noticed something not orbiting around him
and wrote:

You want some more reason why publisher should cease

to exist.
No, but you seem to have the need to excrete it, eh?
In addition to interpersonal skills, you need help with
reading comprehension. Oh, and probably recognition of
fact, too. Were you R.A.D as a teen? At the least I
bet you were ADHD.

organising labour about three years ago, my contact with the union
was through the federal office (state office only

cared about
Oooohhhh, yeah, that adds credibility to you, doesn't
it? Ain't you just SO grand? I'd one-up your stories,
but I'm here for entertainment in your case, not to
grandstand. That'd be almost as boring as deciding to
read what you wrote beyond the first line or two. I
was going to say sentence, but I see you don't use
sentences very well. Add grammar to your list of
needs.

....

If not
for me noone would have any idea of agendas, formal notifications,
and other democratic necessities.

Hmmm, important cuss, aren't you? Or are you? Hmm,
somehow I doubt you were the only one could have done
that, plus, if you're as smart as you say you are,
there are easier ways to do that. But wait, there's
only your way, isn't there? What was I thinking?

As I said good for idiots.

Yeah yeah, I get the idea; it's good for you. But
that's not what you said at first. Since you've
decided to keep your sentences vague, I've decided to
add some clarity to them for you. Sure glad I wasn't
the victim of any of your efforts - woof! It'd be more
productive going out and getting pissed with the gang,
I think.

If you want to give cards made out of
paper or other similar stuff, go for it.

Hmm, there's something totally irrelevant to the
subject at hand. I "give cards" made out of whatever
is appropriate to the occasion and the receiver's
expectations or above.

That wouldn't impress me

Like, I would care if it impressed you?

(if
I'm going to waste my time I'll make a multimedia

extravaganza in
Wasting time is something you do often, I would gather.

powerpoint - I spent years wondering WTF use was

powerpoint - then
Again, reading comprehension and ambition (not) are
showing again.

... PP is for
E-Cards as noone would use it for presentations - Word, a
transparancy maker, a laser printer (needed for the transparancy
maker), a blank sheet of paper, and an overhead projector is what one
would use).

Yup, done it myself, in fact. But also often used PP
and many of its features for some great presentations,
some of which I received awards for, and in one case a
promotion. You are obviously ignorant of what PP is.
You think for yourself, but you do it where there is no
sunshine!

</troll feeding>
....

;-)

Pop

 

[David Candy]

Well least I answered his question, asked in the wrong place. My links always work. I use notepad.

If morons like you want to come here fit in. XP is a corporate operating system. I merely apply these standards.

 

[joust in jest]

David Candy wrote... "XP is a corporate operating system", ....
but David forgot to explain that to Bill Gates, who, in spite of David's
edict, issued Windows XP Home to the masses -- some of whom are not
advanced computer users (thus the phrase "newusers" in this newsgroup).

steve





Well least I answered his question, asked in the wrong place. My links
always work. I use notepad.

If morons like you want to come here fit in. XP is a corporate operating
system. I merely apply these standards.

 

[David Candy]

Go act like a dork in the other NT groups like 2000.

 

[Cerridwen]

You want some more reason why publisher should cease to exist. I was
organising labour about three years ago, my contact with the union
was through the federal office (state office only cared about
storemen and packers - in Australia the govt forced unions to merge
and become bigger - the NUW largest union that merged in was the S&P
- in my state they still think they were the only union to form the
NUW). The fed organiser used to send me stuff in publisher to
distribute to my new and prospective members. This required me to get
my CD, install publisher, copy and paste it to word, uninstall
publisher. This took an hour to make the documents useable. If not
for me noone would have any idea of agendas, formal notifications,
and other democratic necessities.

As I said good for idiots. If you want to give cards made out of
paper or other similar stuff, go for it. That wouldn't impress me (if
I'm going to waste my time I'll make a multimedia extravaganza in
powerpoint - I spent years wondering WTF use was powerpoint - then
another programmer at work got some attachment that took hours to
download - it was a get well card for her cat - ahh I said PP is for
E-Cards as noone would use it for presentations - Word, a
transparancy maker, a laser printer (needed for the transparancy
maker), a blank sheet of paper, and an overhead projector is what one
would use).

Word is a word processor, with basic DTP capabilities. I am a graphic
designer - I design greeting cards, postcards, business cards, calendars,
programmes, bookmarks, and other print items for various charities - have
you ever tried designing a greeting card in Word?!

You cannot (unless you know more than I do) use Word to perform CMYK
separations, something I need to do on an - almost - daily basis.

Each has its place. I use both daily, but I keep Word for what it's good at
(word processing) and Publisher for what it's good at (DTP).

There is no argument for scrapping Publisher.

 

[David Candy]

Well I've done CMYK in Word (Word 1 at that) in doing posters for some toy library. You just print 4 pages - one colour per page (I may have been using 2 spot colours - it's almost 10 years ago next month (May 94)). Although as I remember the printers weren't able to open the file and I gave them it in some mac format (now I do remember trying to find the format command on a mac - I searched for hours before asking some girl "where is the format floppy command". She said "just put the disk in and it will ask"). But publisher is even more limited than Word at DTP.

Don't worry my sister used to love it too. I gave her my disk. It was destroyed but I found a copy of the disk on my drive (I always copy CD to disk and install from disk - very important for office).

Publisher is easy to use. It allows untrained people to generate sub standard work, but the work looks ok if one doesn't know better.

 

[Cerridwen]

Well I've done CMYK in Word (Word 1 at that) in doing posters for
some toy library. You just print 4 pages - one colour per page (I may
have been using 2 spot colours - it's almost 10 years ago next month
(May 94)). Although as I remember the printers weren't able to open
the file and I gave them it in some mac format (now I do remember
trying to find the format command on a mac - I searched for hours
before asking some girl "where is the format floppy command". She
said "just put the disk in and it will ask"). But publisher is even
more limited than Word at DTP.

Don't worry my sister used to love it too. I gave her my disk. It was
destroyed but I found a copy of the disk on my drive (I always copy
CD to disk and install from disk - very important for office).

Publisher is easy to use. It allows untrained people to generate sub
standard work, but the work looks ok if one doesn't know better.

How can Publisher be "more limited than Word at DTP" when that's its sole
purpose?! Word is a word processor, as I think I may have stated before,
Publisher is a SOHO DTP application - and a damned good one at that. You
never answered my question. Have you tried setting up a greeting card
accurately in Word?!

 

[David Candy]

Well no, because I have no need for greeting cards.

Publisher comes from the Home Product stable. It's counterpart is Works WP.

In Serenity Macros I have a calculator that calculates what the exact measurements are. All pages are layed out in 1, 2 , 3, 4, or 5 (prob not on A4) columns. It calculates the 1/2, 1/3. 1/4, 1/5 of the page or current part of the document. EG one may have 2 columns of text but graphics are layed out on a 1/3 basis. It copies it to the clipboard so it can be pasted to a input box.

Allows Easy Settings of Objects to Predetermined Widths

Menu Tools

Pages are generally laid out on a grid. Drawings and other objects are usually 1/3, 1/2 or 3/4 of the page width. This macro allows easy calculation of these values and the results to be copied to the clipboard for pasting into (Shift + Insert, or Ctrl + V) other dialog boxes.

Close
Closes the dialog box.
Copy
Copies the selected measurement to the clipboard.
Help
Starts context sensitive help (this page).

In Word there are Tables, Frames, Text Boxes, Graphics/Pictures, and drawing canvas. All have layout uses. I can barely use word these days. Far too user friendly (which means excessively complex and thus becomes more of a chaotic system as it is constantly trying to predict what you want - ask someone to explain numbering in word (97 or later) for you. If word predicts how you want it numbered wrongly you doc will never be of use to anyone again ).

In the eighties one of the most popular programs used for WP was Lotus 123 Ver 2.1. A spreadsheet. This is because complex programs can do anything (I used word as a spreadsheet 10000 times more often than Excel, I used Lotus 123 mostly as a WP, I used word for most database tasks (it why I started using it - for it's data manipulation features which I was in withdrawal from as I no longer had a mainframe).

As I said "Publisher is easy to use. It allows untrained people ..." and you said "Publisher is a SOHO DTP application ..." is the reason why word is more powerful. Word is easy to knock up a crap letter but difficult to use to it's full power.

Make 4 graphics. Enter your text and graphics into the graphics (not jpeg type but VECTOR). Arranfe them on the page. Hold down alt key to see measurements on the ruler or use any of the hundreds of tools to lay it out exactly (like entering auto for some entries to make word just fix it).

If you only used 97 or later set it to 95 compat mode (or Use Printer Metrics sub option) and set your default printer to what it will be printed on. There are some options in 2000 and later that may need to be turned off (I have printed 2 web pages in last 4 years from IE. I'm all electronic these days so I have never printed with MS last two versions of Word) about scaling to fit paper etc. Users found exactness too hard so it was disabled as the default.

I could make a greeting card but it would require trial and error and relearning layout while being trapped by 2000/2002/2003's efforts to help me.

 

[It's Only me]

David Candy wrote:
: Go act like a dork in the other NT groups like 2000.
:
:: David Candy wrote... "XP is a corporate operating system", ....
:: but David forgot to explain that to Bill Gates, who, in spite of
:: David's edict, issued Windows XP Home to the masses -- some of whom
:: are not advanced computer users (thus the phrase "newusers" in this
:: newsgroup).
::
:: steve
::
::
::
::
::
:: :: Well least I answered his question, asked in the wrong place. My
:: links always work. I use notepad.
::
:: If morons like you want to come here fit in. XP is a corporate
:: operating system. I merely apply these standards.
::
:: --
:: ----------------------------------------------------------
:: http://www.g2mil.com/Dec2003.htm
:: ::: David Candy noticed someting not orbiting around him,
::: and wrote:
:::: Morons do what morons do. This is a Windows XP group.
::: It has people
:::: answering questions, who all probably have publisher
::: sitting in a
:::: cupboard (as I do) but don't use it.
::::
::: ...
::: Thanks for proving my point, along with indicating what
::: you do. Oh yeah, and stating the obvious. Anything
::: else useless to post? Or maybe some more conceit
::: statements? Too bad you aren't one of those people
::: answering questions.
:::
::: Thanks for more entertainment,
::: </troll feeding>
:::
::: Pop

Girls, girls, girls. All this crap and bitching over a simple question. It
seems to me the "experts" here have a little grudge against one another.
Those who like to "make their point" as pop and David have done..........
well. Suffer the little children. )

 

[PopRivet]

doing posters for
....
IMO, it's highly likely this blowhard has any actual
experience with anything remotely related. It likes to
drop its own personal references and seemingly personal
resume around a lot, but there has been absolutely
nothing even close to demonstrating an actual
experience or knowledge in anything actually relevant.
It does have entertainment value, however.

Regards,

Pop