Publisher 2003 & fun fonts

[KJAB]

My workplace has been using publisher 2000 to keep their
website. Recently we upgraded to 2003 and ever since
then, the site has not been the same. I have tried a
fresh publish using David's "how to publish your
publisher 2003 web publication" instructions, but when I
used that, now all of the "fun fonts" that are being used
do not show up. I can't figure out how to make this work
and would appreciate any help. What we don't want is to
have to manually convert any fun fonttype into a picture,
when Publisher 2000 (and I thought 2003) did this
automatically upon a publish.

the website is:

www.scrapbookgroupies.com

The logo should be in a "fun" style... I made the
Newsletters page (click the newsletters link) an actual
image, as a test... but that will give you an idea of
what it's supposed to look like (among many other items
on each page). HELP!! I'm pulling out my hair.

Thanks!
Kelly

 

[David Bartosik - MS MVP]

As far as web design features, 2003 is more like another entity rather than
an upgrade when compared to 2000. To much is changed fundamentally. First
you'd want to learn about what changed with version 2002 -
http://www.davidbartosik.com/pub2002/pub2002_2.htm
and then read about changes in 2003 - www.davidbartosik.com/pub11.htm

Now regardless of version any text should be standard web fonts to be
supported in your visitors browsers. Any use of non-standard fonts should be
done with images. But it sounds like you know that already.
It also sounds like 2000 did convert into images. This is very likely and
just as likely that 2003 would not. The two have very different methods of
handling images and text. Now if 2000 was giving you an image, then what's
the problem? You already have an image then. At least assuming you saved
those old site files. Go into those site files and pull out the image of
the fancy text and stick it into your 2003 page. Nothing manual about it.
Actually I wrote a whole article on using 2000 to make images -
http://www.davidbartosik.com/pub2k/pub2k_24.htm

--
David Bartosik - MS MVP
for Publisher help:
www.davidbartosik.com
enter to win Pub 2003:
www.davidbartosik.com/giveaway.aspx

 

[KJAB]

Thanks David...

The problem is that it's not just the logo that is a "fun
font" The same font (or others) is used throughout the
text as an "accent" on news items or important info. I
suspected as much, though, with the web fonts vs. images.
Thanks for verifying this for me.

Question: (since I'm not a general Publisher user) - is
Publisher a decent "web page" software, or is that just a
feature of a software package that is better used for
desktop publishing type tasks?

 

[David Bartosik - MS MVP]

Publisher is a Desktop Publishing application aimed at Small Business users
for developing their marketing materials.

Microsoft's web design application is FrontPage.

--
David Bartosik - MS MVP
for Publisher help:
www.davidbartosik.com
enter to win Pub 2003:
www.davidbartosik.com/giveaway.aspx

 

[analog]

I just stumbled on this old thread. How can anyone defend this nonsense? It is
this guy's fault that his company relied on M$ representations that Publisher
was just fine for websites? Sure he can go back to Publisher 2000, but it is
becoming outdated and will eventually cease to be supported. There has never
been a problem moving up from a previous "version" of M$ Word; why so for
Publisher???? Beyond belief!