Publisher programmers should talk with real commercial printing p.

[learning curve]

Many fine improvements could be made if you would come to the real world and
spend a few days sharing ideas on some of the things we are really up against
in the commercial printing business. Much of your language doesn't coincide
wth ours and many common things that are everyday you don't address. Your
software has a place in the market as a affordable alternative to all the
high end and hard to use others, but still has to be learnable for the
average non-designer person and still drive our equipment without flaws. You
need to also address handling eps files that are very common in our business
and are not going away. I would be glad to help if you would let me.

 

[Ed Bennett]

Many fine improvements could be made if you would come to the real
world and spend a few days sharing ideas on some of the things we are
really up against in the commercial printing business. Much of your
language doesn't coincide wth ours and many common things that are
everyday you don't address. Your software has a place in the market
as a affordable alternative to all the high end and hard to use
others, but still has to be learnable for the average non-designer
person and still drive our equipment without flaws. You need to also
address handling eps files that are very common in our business and
are not going away. I would be glad to help if you would let me.

This newsgroup is for people who program against Publisher through VBA - and
you are talking with other Publisher users, not with people who have any
authority on decisions about the direction of Microsoft Publisher.

IMO Publisher 2003 has made large strides towards being a very suitable
program for prepress use, but as always there is room for improvement.
I would suggest taking a look here:
How to Contact the Microsoft Wish Program:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=114491