Showing posts with label Print. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Print. Show all posts

Thursday, October 18, 2012

Print Your Publications Professionally

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Amir Mehrabian, the program manager responsible for our printing features, delves into the improvements we made for commercial printing in the new Publisher.

Publisher is a powerful program that enables you to create a wide variety of publication types, without having to be a graphic designer. You can create publications as big as a fifteen-foot banner or as small as a business card. More often than not, your publication is ultimately destined for the printer, but sometimes your trusty little desktop printer just isn't sufficient. For example, imagine you want to print a very large banner, or invitation cards on special paper. Most desktop printers are incapable of printing huge posters and are not efficient or economical for printing a large number of invitations. In those cases, you may want to take your publication to a print shop with more advanced and specialized printers, inks, and paper. Publisher makes that easy as well.

As part of our planning for the new Publisher, we did a thorough study of the different commercial print options available to our customers today. Our findings showed that commercial printing has come a long way in recent years, and that modern printers are much more sophisticated than they were when some of our older printing features were designed.

Today's print shops universally accept (or even prefer) PDF files for documents to be printed. They often have powerful tools for analyzing and preparing PDF documents for printing that they don't have for other formats. As a format that represents a fixed presentation of the document, and that can also include many advanced settings that can be important for professional printing, such as specific named PANTONE colors, PDF has become a popular standard for taking your publication to a print shop.

In the new Publisher, we've embraced the role that PDF plays in commercial printing, and invested in enhancing our PDF output, while at the same time simplifying the experience for you.

In the new Publisher, you no longer have to choose a color model for your publication. In prior versions of Publisher, several different color modes were supported, with RGB mode for screen and desktop printers, and single, process, and spot color modes for more specialized, commercial printing cases. We have simplified this in the new version, and now use RGB mode for all cases, enhanced to export additional color information when saving the publication.

In particular, since you are likely taking a PDF version of your publication to the printer, we added the ability for Publisher to save any process color values (CMYK) and named (PANTONE) colors you have used in formatting text or objects in your publication to the PDF when you export your file. Printers today have very sophisticated registration and conversion tools for PDFs, obviating the need for you to worry about color models, trapping, or overprinting settings before sending jobs to the printer. This simplifies things for you, and the printer, and increases the likelihood you'll get the best results from your print job. Just create the publication you want, using any combination of RGB, process or spot colors, export as a PDF and head to the printer!

If you have publications that you created with older versions of Publisher and saved in a color model other than RGB, they will be converted to RGB when you open them in the new Publisher. In it important to note that while the publication is now in RGB mode, any named PANTONE colors, and colors specified in CMYK values, are preserved. When you save or export your publication, Publisher will save all available color information, making it easy for your printer to do the right thing.

As mentioned above, if you're taking your publication to a print shop, you'll likely want to export the pub as a PDF file. In addition to the ability to simply "Save As..." a PDF, Publisher also has the Pack and Go wizard to make it easy to export your document with the settings you want.

To export your publication, first save your file, and then go to the "File" tab, select "Export" and then "Save for Commercial Printer".

Choose the desired quality and type of output you want, and then click on "Pack and Go Wizard". In the dialog that opens, choose where you want your final output to be saved. You can then take the output files to your print shop of choice.

While you're on the Export tab, you might notice a new option under Pack and Go, "Save for a Photo Printer". This option is handy for some types of publications, such as photo books or albums, where printing at a photo center can be a low cost alternative to commercial printing.

For several version now, Publisher has had the ability to save a single page of your publication as a file in an image format, such as JPEG or TIFF. The resulting file is essentially a big picture of your page, like the files generated by your digital camera. In the new version, we've added an option to the Export tab that makes it easy to save not just one, but all the pages of your publication as images.

When you use the Pack and Go Wizard to export for photo printer, you simply select the desired output format, and then choose a location. You can choose between JPEG, which generally results in much smaller files, or TIFF, which can sometimes result in higher quality images. All of the pages will be exported to a folder, named after the name of your publication, at the location you specified in the wizard.

Once you have your images, you can print them just as you would any other digital picture or image file!


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Friday, April 27, 2012

Quick Tip: Using the Print Booklet Feature in InDesign CS5

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Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Tip: Elegantere ways to print white lines PowerPoint (video)

This is the fourteenth in a series of quick video tips for executives, with PowerPoint of guest blogger Bruce Gabrielle, author of PowerPoint to speak.

PowerPoint experts share tips presentations to improve with each other, how such as each other.  Presentation Designer Krzysztof Baszton Bruce Gabriel to him more elegant ways to print white lines show contacted in PowerPoint than those, who portrayed Bruce in his previous video.

This tip comes in handy when you realize that the white line in your PowerPoint turn black, if you print the slides.  This video gives you additional options to avoid this problem.  View


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Sunday, June 26, 2011

Create, sell, print you and distribute books with MagCloud and Publisher year

My son is the high school completion in a week and on Monday he came with his high school Yearbook. It was amazing to see all that we once knew "little kids", adults young adults and it reminded me that write this perfect time would a blog post about the use of Publisher and MagCloud to create, sell, print and distribute books of all year.

* Fast memory of MagCloud, Hewlett Packard cloud publishing site, called MagCloud is an excellent resource for each scenario, request publishing and Microsoft and HP have joined forces to their using of Publisher with MagCloud a simple solution for the publication of catalogues, magazines, newsletters, and Yes, Annals. You can read more about the Microsoft/MagCloud partnership and get a 25% discount coupon code in my previous post.

So, now let us assume, you are the consultant of the year book Committee of the County high school (the fighting vamps!) and you begin to plan for the 2012 Edition. Here a short is by the use of Publisher and MagCloud for your book 2012 year.

Open Publisher, and the available templates, click on more categories.
Publisher templates - More CategoriesScroll to and click the category all books .
Publisher templates - All Books categorySelect academic books see student Yearbook for junior high and high school, and then click Download
Publisher templates - YearbookPublisher opens the new publication, and you are all configure MagCloud setting.

MagCloud has some simple configuration requirements for publications with the instructions on the link. See more on Page Setup and layout type, and color model and font settings on Office.com.

That is something that you and the children love to do, but I will not discuss here.

 Front page of year book.

Before you upload your Yearbook, you must save it as a PDF. Keep in mind that MagCloud has some specific PDF configurations, such as ISO 19005-1 compatibility and pages per sheet. Read the step-by-step instructions on how to create a PDF file for MagCloudthe conditions to the end of the year.

If you haven't already, create a Free MagCloud membership. Then follow the instructions in the MagCloud's help: how to publish on the page your PDF document upload and your make available Yearbook for job. Then you can your students, family and associates the link to the MagCloud page type for the order of the Yearbook. All are billing, printing and shipping of MagCloud and a project that had far too much of your time and energy has become manageable and impressively organized!

--Bob deLaubenfels


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Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Is Microsoft OneNote kidnapping your print jobs?

While usually we not focus on technical support issues here on the blog Office (that's for the reply Microsoft forums are), you make me shine a fast light on a recurring problem, scratching your heads some of you and write about has caused.

In short, seems to be that OneNote 2010 (or OneNote 2007) captures all your print jobs when you try to use all information from your other programs the problem or send your Web browser to your loyal printer. While you admit to that a great way to paper save this and finally "go green," it no not him or her is laughing a printed report when your boss expects you to the hand and you seem to do.

Until recently, have you was always something from your computer to your printer can print. Now, your print jobs appear suddenly completely bypass your printer and go directly to Microsoft OneNote, where they displayed gescannte images. You really want to go back to things to how things were and have again your print jobs to your actual printer.

Microsoft OneNote has a nifty little utility called the sending to the OneNote printer driver. A printer driver is a small piece of software that guides from a computer to a printer. Usually controls the operating system software, so that it speaks like a computer with hardware devices such as a printer can monitor. In the case of OneNote a special printer driver is installed, allows you to send your print jobs as images in your OneNote notebooks.

The OneNote printer driver was not to override the printer settings and assume that you 2010 to send each print to OneNote. Instead has intended, in the wings, when you want to use it, and take a back seat again, when you're done wait a specific print job to OneNote available send.

However, the OneNote printer driver may have transported accidentally becoming the top dog in one of the following conditions:

Installation of OneNote 2010 or Office 2010 installed no physical printer or currently selected act caused the sending to the OneNote printer driver as the default printer (preferred).
You installed a new physical printer on your computer after installing OneNote 2010 or Office 2010, acts without support of the printer as the default printer.
You sharing your computer with someone else installed OneNote 2010 or Office 2010 and sending to the OneNote printer driver as the default printer to act.
Your printer software is not compatible with your version of the operating system and Windows was to send reset to the OneNote printer driver as the default printer.

Even if you are not really sure how it can be done, it is a simple solution.

Setting a default printer in Windows Control Panel

If the send to OneNote 2010 print driver is marked as shown, print jobs are are sent as images to OneNote.
You have installed a real printer, right click the icon, and then click set as default printer on the shortcut menu.
Your printer is recognized as the preferred printer for future print jobs if it has the check mark icon next to it.

As follows you on any edition of Windows 7 before:

Click Start on the Windows taskbar, click the button.Click on the right side of the start menu click Control Panel.Open Control Panel, click on View devices and printers (if you are in category view), or click devices and printers (when in icon view).Right click the printer icon that represents your physical printer, and then click set as default printer on the shortcut menu.

If you are using Windows Vista, the steps are almost identical:

Click Start on the Windows taskbar, click the button.Click on the right side of the start menu click Control Panel.Open Control Panel, click Printers (if you are in category view), or click on the printer (if you are in the default view).Right click the printer icon that represents your physical printer, and then click set as default printer on the shortcut menu.

If you display an icon not for your actual printer, it is likely that your printer is not correctly installed. Check the website of your printer manufacturer for any updated drivers that are specific to your version of Windows (such as a 64-bit Edition of Windows) and make sure that the printer is properly connected to the computer.

Even if you had a bad impression of the OneNote printer driver all your print jobs in hardware, you are not too quick to dismiss it even after you demote it as standard "Printer". You might be surprised how useful it is to have the opportunity, print certain information directly in OneNote.

Although digital printouts in OneNote image files that you can edit, with the right mouse button, can such pictures in OneNote 2010 and extract the text from them with the command copy text from image . As long as the text in the image is large enough and readable, this works very well. You can then add and use the copied text in your notes or somewhere else in your work.

If you rightly the OneNote printer driver is introduced, a pretty cool feature!  ;-)

Thinking you because, whenever you have a problem technical support, head on over to Microsoft answers - the official support forums for OneNote and Office. It is daily through competent and helpful members monitors the Microsoft MVP community, Microsoft product support services and the Office product teams.

--Michael C. Oldenburg
 


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Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Roundup: Print with Office

Any Office user of any Office application must print to a specific point in time. This shows one of the top query in the search on Office.com, where is "print" course. Some of the top resources for help with printing on Office.com are here for easy reference.

But first, be careful;. many of the problems with print have to do with the printer and not the program. For example, if the alignment is off or the printer has a non-printable margin that corresponds to your document or worksheet margins, you may find in your printer documentation. The printer manufacturer's website is online help, as your printer documentation is check out presumably so they.

First of all, the large help articles is Office:

Office 2010:

Office 2007:

And then the application specific help for Word, Excel and Publisher:

Word 2010:

Word 2003:

Excel 2010:

Excel 2007:

Excel 2003:

Publisher 2010:

Publisher 2007:

Publisher 2003:

--Bob deLaubenfels


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