EDITORS USING PUBLISHER (problems)

To Presbytery Page Editors using Microsoft Publisher:

Our memory says four of you use Publisher, let us know if this wrong or incomplete.

Donna at South Louisiana
Julie at Eastern Oklahoma
April Coldsmith (welcome!) at Mission
Cindy at Pines (now InDesign)

From Shane: PROBLEM! – I was under the mistaken impression that UMR could use PDF files created from Publisher IF all the new technical requirements were met using the newer versions of Acrobat. That’s wrong. Learning that was like running into a brick wall, but at least knocking a small hole in it. Acrobat cannot fix Publisher’s limitations as far as UMR’s new high tech system is concerned.

TODAY’s SOLUTION: Send your completed Publisher page and all original photo/image files to Beth Hernandez and she will save them. Shane will look them over and send them on to UMR and the SUN will pay this time to have them reset. Because of this it would be extremely helpful to have your work in before the absolute deadline of 9a next Tuesday.

So, if you use Publisher, send all files (.pub and .jpg and/or .tif files) to Beth and NOT to UMR.

LONG TERM SOLUTION: Many of you will not want or want to afford buying a high-end publishing program like InDesign, so a possible solution is to hire a third party to reset the pages (if we find one cheaper than UMR) and evenly split the cost of that third party between the presbyteries involved.

NOTE: UMR charges about $60/hr for this work. If they don’t have to fix your photos/images that will decrease time required. It will be good to invest in a cheaper program called Photoshop Elements ($100) that you can use to prepare all graphics/photos you use in any printed or electronic publication.

So that we can see feedback about these questions and concerns in one place, I’ve placed this topic on our PCN blog.