Publisher should let you save in a .pdf format.

[bbrevick]

I work for a newspaper in advertising sales. Small businesses will sometimes
create their own ad...or companies will have ads already created....in
Publisher. Our Newspaper (150,000 circulation) does not have publlisher,
therfore we cannot open or use these ads. If Publisher gave the client the
option of saving in a .pdf format it would be able to be opened by almost
anyone....including us.
I have an ad today that a customer gave to me on a cd...."camera ready" but
I find out it is a .pub file.....now I cannot open it.
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[JoAnn Paules [MVP]]

Sometimes you need to read other sections of the newspaper. ;-)

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2005/oct05/10-02OfficePDF.mspx

 

[Ed Bennett]

I work for a newspaper in advertising sales. Small businesses will
sometimes create their own ad...or companies will have ads already
created....in Publisher. Our Newspaper (150,000 circulation) does
not have publlisher, therfore we cannot open or use these ads. If
Publisher gave the client the option of saving in a .pdf format it
would be able to be opened by almost anyone....including us.

In addition to JoAnn's response, Publisher can already save as a PDF file
with the use of a third-party product such as PrimoPDF (free from
www.primopdf.com) or Adobe Acrobat (not so free)

The users still have to know to save as a PDF rather than a .pub, and that
won't change with Publisher 2007.

(Btw, can't a newspaper with a 150,000 circulation afford to purchase a copy
of Publisher to be able to open such files? If you took 0.1 cents from each
copy on one single run, you'd have enough cash to purchase a single copy of
Publisher. You'd get change.)

Also, this newsgroup is for questions about programming applications in and
against Publisher using its object model. Questions about Publisher not
related to the object model are better directed at the main
microsoft.public.publisher newsgroup.