Publisher is a low end publishing program. I use it all the time for small booklets and bulletins.
I would never compare it to nor say it is a replacement for Adobe's Pagemaker or now Indesign.
When I have complicated page layout/publishing requirements I go back to and use Pagemaker (I have never upgraded)
Many low end companies do use Publisher as it is easy cheap and meets their requirements.
Not everyone needs a Pagemaker/Indesign/Quark express to design some slick looking flyers etc.
I knew one print shop that used Corel for their page layout program. I could never understand it.
So Publisher is what it is nothing more nothing less. It is not a high end page layout program.
Stewart At 09:56 AM 4/14/2009, you wrote:
>Anything you can do in MS Publisher you can do as well, actually better, >in Word. Word only handles RGB colors and printing presses use CMYK inks. Publisher finally added the ability to use CMYK, but I believe it did not do it well. To use Word you would have to rely on work arounds, like printing to PDF and then converting colors in Acrobat. This can cause colors to shift, but anyone dumb enough to use Publisher is unlikely to notice. Microsoft claims Publisher is the #1 selling page layout program. Publisher is just one more example of low-quality Microsoft software lapped up by idiots.
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