>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.
Doesn't matter that Word only does RGB. People who use Publisher or Word
will print it on an inkjet or laser printer, not an offset press. Those
who think either are suitable for offset cause huge headaches for
printers. In their own offices and homes, they use inkjets that have the
embedded software or PPDs to convert from RGB to CMYK.
You're answering this as a person who knows about printing, prepress,
separations. Most people know nothing about printing except that they
push the print button in the corner of the window to print, then reach
over to retrieve the printed copy. Or they argue with the print shop
that their file is good and what's wrong with the print shop!!
Betty
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