With all due respect, the problem may simply be that you have your workflow
*reversed*. If you finish the graphics with the appropriate software
*before* placing them in your _word_ processing file, insert them as Linked
rather than Embedded & supply the graphics at press time there isn't a
commercial service worth using that should have a problem.
Your comparison to Publisher is without foundation because Word & Publisher
are two different types of software designed for different purposes... You
might as well criticize Word because it doesn't have the facility to
calculate as Excel does... Which is as ludicrous as criticizing Excel
because it can't do Footnotes or TOCs.
If you need professional page layout done in-house, you might do well to
spring for software intended for that purpose. Since you mention
Illustrator, do you have InDesign as well? If Publisher will suit your
needs, great - use it to combine the copy from Word with your graphics from
wherever... That's what it's for
Regards |:)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac
On 11/18/06 3:42 AM, in article ,
"Jezebel" wrote:
So why are you farting around with Word, given that it won't do what it's
not designed to do?
"OboroGuy34" wrote in message
...
Every day people use word to give to commercial printing companys to have
to
piece together. One of the downfalls of word is the ability to produce
spot
colors. When a .pdf file made from a 80-page word document has to be
opened
in Adobe Illustrator (page by page), recolored, resaved and re-pieced
together, it is a waste of our time and, to me, makes microsoft really
like
the lower end of the software world. Even Microsoft Publisher has been
improved some.
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