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Please, PLEASE add the ability to add PMS spot colors to Word.
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. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ord.pagelayout |
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Please, PLEASE add the ability to add PMS spot colors to Word.
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. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ord.pagelayout |
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Please, PLEASE add the ability to add PMS spot colors to Word.
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. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...d=fef748a2-df2 d-4c58-846b-5e7ccf717bfc&dg=microsoft.public.word.pagelayout |
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Please, PLEASE add the ability to add PMS spot colors to Word.
I have to come to the defense of OroboroGuy, the original poster. If you
read his preceding post that I answered, you'll see that his company *is* a commercial printing service. His problem is that his customers hand him Word files and expect him to make spot color separations from them. He's in a bad situation, because he can't reasonably hand the file back to the customer and say "start over and do it right", but Word doesn't have the tools to let him do the job without expensive manual work. I don't have experience as a commercial printer to be able to suggest a better method. Maybe some of our other readers do. I know that MVP Klaus Linke works for a printing firm, and he might have a suggestion. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. CyberTaz wrote: 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. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...d=fef748a2-df2 d-4c58-846b-5e7ccf717bfc&dg=microsoft.public.word.pagelayout |
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Please, PLEASE add the ability to add PMS spot colors to Word.
Thanks for pointing that out, Jay - I didn't see the other post until
somewhat later. Like you, I sympathize with his plight - to a certain extent. However, I have seen a number of commercial concerns seize upon such situations as a 'value-added' opportunity to provide education, training & consultative service to their clientele. In the majority of cases it not only produces additional *immediate* revenue, but also helps solidify an ongoing relationship that's more profitable for both parties. And in *all* cases it has been a far more productive approach than simply whining about the software not having features it has never been intended to include. The unfortunate fact is that even if Word *did* have the features he wants to see the odds are that without proper use by his clients the extent of reworking on his end would be virtually the same... he'd just be able to do it in Word -- Regards |:) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... I have to come to the defense of OroboroGuy, the original poster. If you read his preceding post that I answered, you'll see that his company *is* a commercial printing service. His problem is that his customers hand him Word files and expect him to make spot color separations from them. He's in a bad situation, because he can't reasonably hand the file back to the customer and say "start over and do it right", but Word doesn't have the tools to let him do the job without expensive manual work. I don't have experience as a commercial printer to be able to suggest a better method. Maybe some of our other readers do. I know that MVP Klaus Linke works for a printing firm, and he might have a suggestion. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. CyberTaz wrote: 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. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...d=fef748a2-df2 d-4c58-846b-5e7ccf717bfc&dg=microsoft.public.word.pagelayout |
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Please, PLEASE add the ability to add PMS spot colors to Word.
CyberTaz wrote:
[..] The unfortunate fact is that even if Word *did* have the features he wants to see the odds are that without proper use by his clients the extent of reworking on his end would be virtually the same... he'd just be able to do it in Word Good point! Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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