Publisher - Display formatting changes from publisher to web previ

[Barclay]

I have been creating our corp web site in publisher 2003.
However I am now at 12 pages and am finding that what is viewed in the
publishing format, is changing when viewed in the web preview setting or when
saved to Single Page Web or any other format.
All this even on the same computer (laptop IBM T30 set at 92DPI) not to
mention on my home tower or my colleagues wide screen laptops.
Lines of text are disappearing, as text is enlarging and therfore shifting
paragraphs.
Using Web Font Georgia the text is shifting longer and larger, Using Webfont
Times New Roman, the text shifts smaller and narrower and leves large spaces.
I really do not want to publish this to the world to view until I can get
this sorted out.
If I create and view this on my Laptop and then do the same on my home PC,
the issues are the same.

What do I do?

 

[DavidF]

Publisher HTML output is at 96 dpi. Change your screen resolution to 96 dpi,
especially for the computer that is going produce the HTML output from
Publisher.

DavidF

 

[Barclay]

Sorry I meant to write 96 DPI, it is already there....

 

[DavidF]

This is a problem peculiar to the wide screen and varying aspect ratio
screens of some laptops. Besides the dpi, check the screen resolution and
see if you can set it to a more standard resolution such as 1152 X 864. If
not, then go to a computer that is using a standard screen resolution, and
produce your Publisher HTML output from that computer. This is what I had to
do....and the site then viewed ok on the laptop.

Another poster had another solution to this, and if I can find it, I will
post it. I must admit that I didn't understand his approach, but he said it
worked.

DavidF

 

[Barclay]

Yes I have now tried this and it seems to not make too much difference.
I have to leave large spaces at the bottom of text boxes to stop the text
from rolling over under another box when it is in web preview
Maybe the issue is that I should create the site using other measurments
than Pixels.. I may try that next time.

Thanks anayway.

 

[DavidF]

Its possible that the problem has nothing to do with wide screens. Perhaps
it is a problem with your design. Open one of the templates, and preview it.
Do you still get the same problems? If not, then the problem is with your
design. If you have a problem with previewing the template, then check IE.
In IE, go to View, Text and make sure you are viewing the text in medium
size? Still get the same problem? Right click your desktop, properties and
under the Appearance tab, are you using normal font size? Under the Settings
tab, what is the Screen Resolution? Under Advanced, what is the DPI setting?

If you have no problem with previewing a template, open your Pub file run
the Design Checker under Tools and see if that helps identify any problem.
Are you using a master page? That can result in mixed results and should be
reserved for print documents. It could also be another design problem.
Publisher does not support word wrap around images in HTML. Also a
possibility...how are you formatting the text boxes? Publisher can have
problems converting some formatting to HTML, such as indents, bullets,
columns, and such. Try inserting a new text box at the bottom of your page
without any paragraph formatting, fill, borders, etc and using only the
default font...make sure nothing overlaps that box, and see if that text box
previews correctly. If it does, go back and strip off all the formatting of
a problem text box, and test. Then add back design elements, formatting etc
one at a time until you identify the problem.

If you can, upload the site at least temporarily, post the URL of the site
and identify the specific problem(s) you have on that page(s), and perhaps
we can spot something else.

DavidF

 

[DavidF]

Another poster reminded me of another issue that might affect how your text
boxes display. When Publisher converts your text to HTML, it doesn't know
what to do with font sizes such as 7.1, 8.5 etc, and will round off those
numbers. Make sure you are using even font sizes.

DavidF