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Jill@Vario
10-09-2007, 07:25 PM
I have a client that's asking me to convert an InDesign file to a Publisher file. Is it me or can this not be done?
Danger_Mouse
10-09-2007, 07:29 PM
ummm why?
why not just a PDF?
Jill@Vario
10-09-2007, 07:36 PM
They want to be able to change things around in the layout and they don't want to purchase InDesign.
Tsmalldon
10-09-2007, 07:40 PM
I have a client that's asking me to convert an InDesign file to a Publisher file. Is it me or can this not be done?
DONT DO IT FOR THE FATE OF THE WORLD HANGS IN THE BALANCE!
Now that the overly dramtic part is over. Im not sure there is a way, although I havent touched publisher for awhile.
steve2112
10-09-2007, 07:47 PM
cant be done. You would have to set the job up again in Publshger and save it that way. Of course if you do that you are no longer a designer and we all come to beat you up.
steve
mojoprime
10-09-2007, 07:52 PM
publisher doesn't support any editable formats, other than its own. unless all they want to do is minor stuff, like change very little text which could be done through Acrobat, you're really out of luck. you can save publisher files to postscript, but that's about it.
Jill@Vario
10-09-2007, 07:56 PM
I figured there wasn't a way. I'm big into InDesign but when this person asked me to do it, I thought maybe I was wrong. Guess I'm not a drunk afterall!! Thanks for your responses.
Broacher
10-09-2007, 08:22 PM
I keep a bag of freeze dried sow's ears around for just such clients.
So far, no silk purses.
Tsmalldon
10-09-2007, 08:23 PM
When someone mentions publisher, an angel gets her wings clipped
Broacher
10-09-2007, 09:03 PM
Actually, I'm in a kind of uncomfortable position regarding Publisher. My wife (a children's librarian) just got this installed at her work place and is starting to use it for all her promotional designs, ads, etc.
Now, for 95% of the work she does, she'll probably be happy with it. So far, she's really only been using Word for most of this stuff. But most of it is just stuff off the office printer. But I'm getting a little nervous knowing that as soon as she has something to 'take outside' that I'm going to be called in for tech assistance.
By the way, my wife may not have any real experience in layout software or digital workflows, but she understands print production very well, having had the same training I had and even working in a big publisher as a production person for a few years. (That is, in the years before computers!)
Ah well. The things we do for love.
Blanket_509
10-09-2007, 11:36 PM
I've heard of InDesign to Quark, but definately not to Publisher.
budafist
10-10-2007, 01:36 AM
Nada. No dice.
Highlight, copy, paste. Keep doing that with each part of the design.
:p
Of course if it was me, I'd just tell him to stuff it... and I don't mean to compress and archive. :D
budafist
10-10-2007, 05:22 AM
See, even if you could do it. Just say you convert it back from Pub to Indy for final printing. How can you trust the client has done it correctly? You can't! That's why people hire designers. It's not just about making stuff look pretty it's about making files that are able to be printed correctly.
Oh wait...maybe I've gotten myself confused with pre-press...
hewligan
10-10-2007, 06:29 AM
Well, I like to think I produce files that print correctly, but judging by some of the comments by prepress people around here, if I do, I'm in a minority...
budafist
10-10-2007, 10:16 AM
Hewlie, my friend, you are a minority.
Calligirl
10-10-2007, 03:19 PM
I've converted InDesign to Publisher for one group who have their files set up in Publisher and don't want to use anything else. It's a lot of copy/paste because it has to be done piecemeal.
I know the entire world (except for some local churches and this one group) is against Publisher but I always make a pdf out of the thing anyway so I haven't had any problems, knock on wood. It's just another tool to me. The snobbery is kinda getting on my nerves.
Yeah, if I need a hammer then a hammer works best but if I don't have the money to get a good hammer, I'll use the heel of my shoe to get the work done. Once the nail's in the wall, who the hell cares what you used to get it there? (Bad analogy maybe but it's early!)
steve2112
10-10-2007, 06:23 PM
You can easily make a good pdf out of publisher you just have to know what you are doing and publisher isn't to intuitive in that way. Just setting jobs up in cmyk or spot colors can be a pain.
steve