About Dawn Douglas Expertise I can answer most questions about Microsoft Publisher.
Experience I have been using Microsoft Publisher for 11 years. I started with Adobe InDesign and Pagemaker. I like Microsoft Publisher for it's ease of use.
Education/Credentials I am self taught in Microsoft Publisher. I learned by doing.
Question I have a proposed instruction book all set up in MS Publisher but none of the Self-Publish firms are interested in using the prepared pages from my MS program. They all want you to use their own publishing programs using their formats.
I have a lot of intricate layouts and text with matching color illustrations. Do you have any resources I can go to who will print and bind my MS Publisher pages?
Answer Hi Henry,
I don't know where you are in the world, but a commercial printer could print and bind the book for you. It wouldn't require that they have Microsoft Publisher. All you have to do is print the book as a high resolution PDF file. This would maintain all of your layouts in the book. Take the high resolution PDF to a commerical printing service or even a self publishing service and they will have no problem printing it for you.
If you don't have a PDF program there are plenty of free ones -- Primo PDF, Cute PDF come to mind but I am sure there are many others. If you install the PDF program and go back to Microsoft Publisher and select print for your document, where the option is to choose a printer, scroll until you see your PDF program, select it and print. It will "print" to a PDF file that you can save on a desk and depending on the file size you can zip it and email it to a publishing company or take it to a local printing compnay and have them do it.
