Fill Effects in Publisher 2007

[K3estrel]

I used to have Publisher 2000 on my old computer. I've since upgraded to
Vista and Publisher 2007, and all-in-all the new version is superior.
However, I just went to do a fill effect for the background of a picture in
my document, and I discovered much to my disappointment that many of the fill
effect patterns from Publisher 2000 that were kind of cool seem to be gone.
I'm referring to the simple fade-in / fade-out type patterns where you can
select multiple colors to blend into one another following a pre-set
geometric shape. Publisher 2000 used to have many more shapes than I have now
- there used to be a variety of spirals, stars, arrows, and so forth to
choose from. Now there are only some basic variations on horizontal,
vertical, diagonal, and "from center". I want to know if there is any way to
install just those fill effect patterns from either my old Publisher 2000 CD
or from some other source so that I once again have access to them; or is it
possible to have both versions of Publisher installed and functional at the
same time on my computer? Thanks for any help you can give.

 

[John Inzer]

I used to have Publisher 2000 on my old computer. I've since upgraded
to Vista and Publisher 2007, and all-in-all the new version is
superior. However, I just went to do a fill effect for the background
of a picture in my document, and I discovered much to my
disappointment that many of the fill effect patterns from Publisher
2000 that were kind of cool seem to be gone. I'm referring to the
simple fade-in / fade-out type patterns where you can select multiple
colors to blend into one another following a pre-set geometric shape.
Publisher 2000 used to have many more shapes than I have now - there
used to be a variety of spirals, stars, arrows, and so forth to
choose from. Now there are only some basic variations on horizontal,
vertical, diagonal, and "from center". I want to know if there is any
way to install just those fill effect patterns from either my old
Publisher 2000 CD or from some other source so that I once again have
access to them; or is it possible to have both versions of Publisher
installed and functional at the same time on my computer? Thanks for
any help you can give.

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Both versions can run on the same computer.
Within the limits of your computer resources
you could actually run several instances of both
programs at the same time.

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John Inzer
Digital Media MVP

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[K3estrel]

Thanks so much!
So then if I create the fill effect I want in Pub 2000, is it also possible
to cut and paste just that item easily between the two programs?

 

[John Inzer]

Thanks so much!
So then if I create the fill effect I want in Pub 2000, is it also
possible to cut and paste just that item easily between the two
programs?

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Sure, that should work nicely.

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Digital Media MVP

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[Mary Sauer]

Only certain gradients will paste correctly. For instance most of the shapes
will not. I haven't tried them all but it looks like they are not going to work.
The straightforward gradients work for the most part. It would be nice to have
the spiral gradient paste okay.

 

[John Inzer]

Only certain gradients will paste correctly. For instance most of the
shapes will not. I haven't tried them all but it looks like they are
not going to work. The straightforward gradients work for the most
part. It would be nice to have the spiral gradient paste okay.

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Ooops...

Thanks for the correction, the ones I tried
worked ok but I had not tried the spiral
gradient.

If sort of half way works if you create a .pdf
in Pub 2000 and then open the .pdf and go
to...Edit / Copy file to clipboard...and paste
the result in Pub 2007.

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John Inzer
Digital Media MVP

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[Mary Sauer]

That is too much work. If you create an auto shape and use the gradient fill, it
looks about the same, especially if you use the transparency.

 

[John Inzer]

That is too much work. If you create an auto shape and use the
gradient fill, it looks about the same, especially if you use the
transparency.

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Thanks Mary...

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John Inzer
Digital Media MVP

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me may not work for you

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