Publisher 2002 - text boxes with 'background fill'

[GSV Three Minds in a Can]

A new glitch (coming from Publisher '97) .. I have some text boxes in my
..pub file which a) contain hyperlinks and b) have a background fill
colour set. Publisher 2002 wants to turn these (the whole text box) into
a .gif object, and the hyperlinks get lost.

Is there a known solution for this, or do I just have to do without
'fill'?

 

[GSV Three Minds in a Can]

Known issue, you can refer to
http://www.davidbartosik.com/pub2002/pub2002_issues.htm
as your first stop.

Thanks David. Since you're the guru, do you have an opinion as to how
come MS managed to 'upgrade' from Pulisher '97, 2000, whatever and
introduce so many 'show stoppers' on the way? I mean they screwed up
Win2k on the way to making it WinXP, but most of the bugs are pretty
minor compared to the ones in Publisher - and it's not like I'm asking
it to do any rocket science.

Or was it a case of 'well, it worked OK in XML, but when they hastily
put HTML back in, several things came up broken'?

 

[GSV Three Minds in a Can]

With version 2002 Publisher became a real member of the Office suite, not
just by association but by shared functionality, shared components. That's
why 2002 Pub got a new Word Art and a new web method.
Publisher had been off doing it's own thing and now it had to learn to do
things the Office way.
Yes the quick patch for html came with a few bugs. Fixed in version 2003.

Having just spent $400 or something for the (OEM) 2002 version of Office
Pro (with Publisher) there isn't too much chance I will be enriching MS
any time soon (as you noticed, the 1997 version lasted until now). Guess
I'll just have to live with it, unless there is an SP3 (colour me
unimpressed that the disks, shipped in Jan 2003, didn't even have SP1,
never mind SP2, on them).